Wicca, Wiccan Magick, Witchcraft, and Magic Spells

Scrying (also invited to look out of crystal, to see out of crystal, to see, or piauler) is a magic practice which implies to see things supernaturally in a medium, usually for purposes of the divination or fortune-statement. The media used are the substances most generally reflective, translucent, or luminescent such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. Scrying was employed in many cultures as means of guessing the past, present, or the future. According to the culture and the practice, one thinks the visions which come when one looks at fixedly in the media to come from God, the spirits, the psychic spirit, the devil, or the subconscious. Scrying is actively employed per many cultures and systems of belief and is not limited to a tradition or ideology. However, like other aspects of divination and parapsychology, it is not supported by traditional science like method to envisage the future or to differently see the events which are not physically observable. The most common media used for scrying are: Crystal balls (described), crystals, invaluable stones, a quartz polished, or a different transparent body; this is called gastromancy (or crystallomancy or the spheromancy). Sometimes “to look out of crystal” fixedly refers specifically to the spheromancy. Crystal balls are also called shew stones. A stone or a crystal is also called a seerstone or a peepstone. A water or a different liquid; this is called the hydromancy. Mirrors; this is called the catoptromancy, also known under the name of captromancy, enoptromancy, or fixedly looking at mirror. The specific objects which were employed for scrying include: a swimming pool of ink in the hand (Egypt), the liver of an animal (tribes of the Indian border of the North-West), a hole filled with water (Polynesia), quartz crystals (Apaches and the tribe of Euahlayi of News-Wales of the South), a smooth wafer of the polished black stone (Huille-che of South America), water in a ship (Zulus and Sibériens), a crystal (INCA), a mirror (traditional Greece and average ages), a nail, a swordblade, a ring-stone, glass of Sherry, the ashes of a flowerbud of poppy on hot coals.