crystal ball
English
Noun
"The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse: scrying in crystal
crystal ball (plural crystal balls)
- A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.
- The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.
- (by extension) A way of seeing into the future.
- If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a good, kind, educated, hard-working person.
- One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes
Synonyms
- crystal sphere, orbuculum, shew stone, showstone, seeing stone, scrying stone
Translations
globe used to foretell the future
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See also
- scry