Seven is often associated with good luck and for some people it has mystical or religious associations.
Mirror writing calligraphy was popular in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries among the Bektashi order, where it often carried mystical associations.
Had Caliph deliberately chosen this place for its mystical association, was it all part of the quasi-religious image that Caliph had of himself?
A spokeswoman for Schieffelin says palindromes "are found in many cultures, always with mystical associations, and often with hidden meanings."
La terre - the land - has the same, almost mystical associations for the French as the forest has for the Germans.
Many of his works embodied extramusical associations, sometimes naturalistic, sometimes mystical and often political.
Even so, "Dragon" is heavy with the sort of mystical associations that, in these circumstances, can be interpreted as having some bearing on the younger Lee's unfortunate fate.
The Taliban had an ambiguous attitude toward the activity of these mystical associations.
These abstract religious and mystical associations are concretized in Gubaidulina's compositions in various ways.
In the first place, these rules are intended to offer protection against rabies, a disease which, in popular belief, has fearful and deeply mystical associations.