crystal balls
Seer's gazing tools
Crystal balls are glass or crystal spheres traditionally used for fortune-telling or divination.
A practitioner gazes into the ball, supposedly seeing visions of the future.
The term extends figuratively to any means of predicting what's to come: I don't have a crystal ball, but I think the market will recover.
No one could have seen this coming without a crystal ball.
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- dark artsMalevolent supernatural practices
- predictionForecast of coming events
clairvoyance · third eye · inner vision · seer · palmistry · psychic readings · gazing · oracle · mediumship · spirit world · fortune-telling · runes · prophecy · fate · destiny · the unknown · mystic · tarot
- folk beliefssuperstition, superstitions, folk beliefs, omens, good luck
- witchcraftwitch, spell, spellwork, witches, spells
- Wizard StuffGandalf, Merlin, Harry Potter, Hermione, wands
- magical imagerywands, wizards, witches, spells, potions
- occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, black magic, tarot
- mystical suppliestarot cards, tarot decks, oracle cards, incense, sage
crystal ballshindsight
Recognition after the fact
data analytics · statistical models · empirical research · actuarial tables · computer simulations
crystal ballshistorical records
Preserved accounts of the past
hindsight · archives · post-mortems · autopsy reports · case studies
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