The Last Unicorn Crystal Sphere

Description

This amazing vintage unicorn stand holds a beautiful glass sphere. The sphere also has a flat bottom so it can be removed from the stand and placed on a table to freely stand if you wish.

Late 90’s sphere stand // Only 1 when it’s gone it’s gone.

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.

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.