Crystal ball
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crystal-ball-205-1384077
title:
Crystal ball
text:
A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying. Used since Antiquity, crystal balls have had a broad reputation with witchcraft, including modern times with charlatan acts and amusements at circus venues, festivals, etc. Other names for the thing include crystal sphere, scrying ball, shew/show(ing) stone, and more variants by dialect.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ball
date created:
2004-12-03T00:02:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T04:36:24Z
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