fakir

noun3

1. •
   A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
2. •
   An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
3. •
   (offensive) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.

   • He was, as the undercover agent concluded, a fabulous raconteur or, as one other person summed him up, "a monumental fakir and liar." — 1994