crystal ball

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"The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse: scrying in crystal

crystal ball (plural crystal balls)

  1. A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.
    The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.
  2. (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 kind, hard-working person.
  3. One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes

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