Candlelit mirrors were once used as tools of divination in a method referred to as scrying.
Healing tool, scrying tool, balancing crystal, bringing together the yin and yang in harmony.
In effect, this is like a scrying stone, or the equivalent of a crystal ball.
It has been believed for centuries, in magical circles, that scrying can reveal the future face of a beloved.
One of the most common forms of scrying is gazing into a crystal ball.
Our remarks are therefore based mainly on considerable personal study of "scrying" among normal British subjects of both sexes, to whom the topic was previously unknown.
Rob also makes lovely, traditional, scrying bowls.
Scrying involved looking into a source (such as a mirror or crystal ball) back lit by candlelight.
Scrying involves looking into an object to ascertain psychic information.
Sometimes the supposed magician or medicine man himself did the scrying; occasionally he enabled his client to see for himself; often a child was selected as the scryer.
The black scrying mirror, or magick mirror, is a powerful psychic tool.
The early church condemned specularii (mirror-gazers), and Aubrey and the Memoirs of Saint-Simon contain "scrying" anecdotes of the 17th and 18th centuries, while Sir Walter Scott's story, My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, is based on a tradition of about 1750 in a noble Scottish family.
The method of scrying, as generally practised, is simple.