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crystal gazing
(redirected from Crystallomancy)

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crystal gazing
the act of staring into a crystal globe (crystal ball) supposedly in order to arouse visual perceptions of the future, etc.


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Common methods used of fortune telling include astromancy, and cartromancy (fortune telling with cards), tarot card reading, crystallomancy (reading of a crystal sphere), and cheiromancy (palmistry, reading of the palms).
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Christopher Whitby points out that there are subtle differences between the crystallomancy that Dee advocated, where the scryers used a crystal stone to see visions, and the scrying that used mirrors, known as catoptromancy.
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