Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of divining by means of a transparent body, as a precious stone, crystal globe, etc., formerly in high esteem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The use of a crystal or other transparent solid for the purpose of divination.
- noun Divination by a
crystal ball .
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Examples
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The Wonderful World of Scrying -- Also called crystallomancy, scrying is a technique used by seers, psychics, and sorcerers, using crystals and gemstones in the divination of one's past, present and future.
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At last, in despair, I gave it up, and turned to the book on crystallomancy.
The Gloved Hand Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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Hinduism, "Hopkins's" The Religions of India, "a work on crystallomancy, Mr. Lloyd Tuckey's standard work on" Hypnotism and
The Gloved Hand Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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The form of divination achieved during a trance induced by gazing at a crystal is commonly known as crystal gazing, scrying or crystallomancy.
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
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The other side of the coin is represented by gastromancy, which is not only a synonym for crystallomancy but also the term for divination by ventriloquism.
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Other paths of inquiry have led to the practice of, for example, cleromancy, sciomancy, crystallomancy, alphitomancy, and spodomancy, to name only a few.
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So one wrote: '_There is neither crystallomancy nor hydromancy, but the magick is in the Seer himself. _'"
fbharjo commented on the word crystallomancy
bare beryl
August 24, 2009