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« on: August 11, 2007, 08:26:25 pm »




Media used in scrying

         

A quartz crystal ball, commonly used for scrying.The most common media used for scrying are:

Crystal balls, crystals, precious stones, polished quartz, or another transparent body; this is called gastromancy (also crystallomancy or spheromancy). Sometimes "crystal gazing" refers specifically to spheromancy. Crystal balls are also called shew stones. A stone or crystal is also called a seerstone or peepstone.

Water or another liquid; this is called hydromancy.

Mirrors; this is called catoptromancy, also known as captromancy, enoptromancy, or mirror gazing.


Specific objects that have been used for scrying include:

a pool of ink in the hand (Egypt)

the liver of an animal (Etruscans, tribes of the North-West Indian frontier)

a hole filled with water (Polynesia)

quartz crystals (the Apaches and the Euahlayi tribe of New South Wales)

a smooth slab of polished black stone (the Huille-che of South America)

water in a vessel (Zulus and Siberians)

a crystal (the Incas)

a mirror (classical Greece and the Middle Ages)

a fingernail

a swordblade

a ring-stone

a glass of sherry

the burning of a poppy flowerbud on hot coals


                             
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