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  2. Scrying - Wikipedia

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    Scrying, also referred to as "seeing" or "peeping," is a practice rooted in divination and fortune-telling. It involves gazing into a medium, hoping to receive significant messages or visions that could offer personal guidance, prophecy , revelation , or inspiration. [ 1 ]

  3. Methods of divination - Wikipedia

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    Some forms of divination are much older than the Middle Ages, like haruspication, while others such as coffee-based tasseomancy originated in the 20th and 21st centuries. The chapter "How Panurge consulteth with Herr Trippa" of Gargantua and Pantagruel , a parody on occult treatises of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa , contains a list of over two ...

  4. Divination - Wikipedia

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    Divination can be seen as an attempt to organize what appears to be random so that it provides insight into a problem or issue at hand. [6] Some instruments or practices of divination include Tarot-card reading, rune casting, tea-leaf reading, automatic writing, water scrying, and psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms and DMT. [7]

  5. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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    Crystal ball scrying is commonly used to seek supernatural guidance while making difficult decisions in one's life (e.g., matters of love or finances). [11] [12] When the technique of scrying is used with crystals, or any transparent body, it is known as crystallomancy or crystal gazing.

  6. Seer stone (Latter Day Saints) - Wikipedia

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    From about 1819, Smith regularly practiced scrying, a form of divination in which a "seer" looked into a seer stone to receive supernatural knowledge. [7] Smith's usual procedure was to place the stone in a white stovepipe hat, put his face over the hat to block the light, and "see" the necessary information in the stone's reflections.

  7. Crystal gazing - Wikipedia

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    Crystal ball. Crystal gazing or crystallomancy is a method for seeing visions achieved through trance induction by means of gazing at a crystal. [1] Traditionally, it has been seen as a form of divination or scrying, with visions of the future and of the divine, though research into the content of crystal-visions suggest the visions are related to the expectations and thoughts of the seer.

  8. Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement

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    From about 1819, Smith regularly practiced scrying, a form of divination in which a "seer" looked into a seer stone to receive supernatural knowledge. [18] Smith usually practiced "peeping" or seeing by putting a stone at the bottom of a white stovepipe hat, putting his face over the hat to block the light, then divining information from the ...

  9. Enochian magic - Wikipedia

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    The four smaller ones are placed under the feet of the Holy Table. The fifth and larger one (about nine inches in diameter) is covered with a red cloth, placed on the Holy Table, and is used to support the "Shew-Stone" or "Speculum" (crystal or other device used for scrying). Scrying is an essential element of the magical system.