Sentence:  "But a stranger who had come up to the group just at this point, when they were pronouncing the soup delicious, laughed aloud. "&#39;What a set of fools you all are!&#39; he cried. &#39;This tramp is just a <WSD>fakir</WSD>. That stone had nothing to do with the soup." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.