Crossword-Solution: CRYSTALLOMANCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crystallomancy | n. | Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with CRYSTALLOMANCY (5)
They say that Numa Pompilius used to practise this method, and that he evoked the gods, and consulted them in water, in this way." _Crystallomancy_ is the art of divining by figures, which appear on the surface of a crystal ball, in like manner as on the phial filled with water.
Dee professed to have a number of regular spirit-visitors, whom he described with much circumstantial minuteness, and thus his mirror-magic seems to have possessed more of the character of spiritualistic manifestations than of the usual Oriental crystallomancy.
These sorcerers and diviners who pretend to reveal the future and the unknown by augury, or lots, or hydromancy, or crystallomancy, or by the head of a dead man, or the palm of a virgin, are deceivers.
The large folio volume of the English mathematician upon crystallomancy was very probably used later by Cagliostro, although the latter practised a somewhat different method and used a carafe of water instead of the stone.
Bonwick also gives instances of the prevalence of Crystallomancy amongst the aboriginals, the use of the Rain Stone, the Coradgee Stone which was wrapped in hair and was not to be seen by a female, “not always a simple white stone, it was more commonly a quartz crystal.” He says further “Some men, by proper use of this magical agency (the crystal) could work wonders.” Thus, the crystal has been employed by savage and civilized man in all ages.