Crystal Ball & Vintage Stand Surprise

Description

NOTE: I thought I would make this interesting the New Crystal Balls are approx 2.75 inches across, crystal clear, & are made of leaded crystal. You will receive the sphere and one random vintage brass, copper, or metal stand. I have quite the collection of these beautiful pieces & to keep it interesting I thought we could lower the price & I would send you a random one. Then I don’t have to keep taking pictures and you get a surprise! <3

This beautiful crystal ball comes with a 1960’s -90’s vintage metal stand. Crystal gazing was a popular pastime in the Victorian era, and was claimed to work best when the Sun is at its northernmost declination. Immediately before the appearance of a vision, the ball was said to mist up from within.

A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.

The earliest use of a crystal ball can be first attributed to the Celtic Druids who divined the future and omens with beryl balls.

In the 1st century AD, Pliny the Elder describes use of crystal balls by soothsayers (“crystallum orbis”, later written in Medieval Latin by scribes as orbuculum). By the 5th century AD, scrying was widespread within the Roman Empire and was condemned by the early medieval Christian Church as heretical.

Dr. John Dee was a noted British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy, of which the use of crystal balls was often included.

2.75 – 3 in crystal ball + random vintage stand

WARNING // When not in use keep out of sunlight and cover the crystal ball with a cloth as it can be a potential fire hazard. The clear crystal ball will act like a magnifying glass and can start a fire.