Crystal ball

A glass sphere (or crystal ball ) is a traditional requisite of occultism, which is used for clairvoyance.

The glass globe has its origins in the hemispherical rock fragments that have been made ​​since the 13th century of quartz ( rock crystal), beryl or other transparent minerals. This enlarged, placed with the flat side on a book page, the font and served as a reading aid. A glass sphere 's occult as a tool to make analogy, the hidden visible. Earlier, before there was the technical possibilities of producing large glass body, these balls were small, polished crystal. Today it usually is made ​​of clear glass solid glass beads.

The glass ball is used in clairvoyance as a transmission medium. That which is seen at a glance in her heart, to serve as example, an arrangement of cards, the oscillations of a pendulum or the lines of a hand as the basis of an interpretation of not directly tangible, past, future or spatially remote events. This interpretation takes place by, for example, called the soothsayers person.

The intense fixing a shiny object is a highly proven method of hypnosis and trance induction, even for self- hypnosis. In trance or hypnosis, attention is often focused strongly on an object or a person. This may be one way in which the " seers " or the " seer " can better respond to non-verbal signals of responding seeker and so a person can deliver this agreeable prediction.

The paranormal " vision" of a glass ball derives from the centuries-old superstition of the crystal seeing and mirror seeing, where a glance at a transparent object such as a rock crystal or on a reflective surface such as a mirror or water surface, to make hidden visible. This view is found in many fairy tales and folk tales again ( "Mirror, mirror on the wall " ) and was used in the Middle Ages.

In support forums and newsgroups sayings such as " Please be more clear, my crystal ball is broken " (or similar ) as an ironic reference to a lack of details in a description of the error or, like. The milder variant, this phenomenon is called glass beads message.