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Crystal gazing   /krˈɪstəl gˈeɪzɪŋ/   Listen
Crystal gazing

noun
1.
Staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events.






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"Crystal gazing" Quotes from Famous Books



... coin of the sixth or seventh century A.D., well-equipped canoes (a common attendant of crannogs), the greater part of a stone inscribed with concentric circles, a cupped stone, and a large quartz crystal of the kind which Apaches in North America, and the Euahlayi tribe in New South Wales, use in crystal gazing. In early ages, after the metals had been worked, stone, bronze, and iron were still used as occasion served, just as the Australian black will now fashion an implement in "palaeolithic" wise, with a few chips; now will polish a weapon in "neolithic" fashion; and, again, ...
— The Clyde Mystery - a Study in Forgeries and Folklore • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Crystal gazing" :   prophecy, vaticination, prognostication



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