crystal sphere

Fortune teller's globe

A crystal sphere is a ball of clear quartz or glass, associated with fortune-telling and the occult.

Gazing into one supposedly reveals visions of the future or distant events.

The image extends to any claimed method of prediction: No crystal sphere can tell us where interest rates will be next year.

Also called a crystal ball.

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scrying · fortune teller · gem · quartz · Ptolemaic system · polished · epicycles · heavenly bodies · clairvoyance · gazing ball · transparency · mineral · ball · smooth · clear · hollow · optical · solid

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material composition

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Industrial metalworking byproduct

stone · rubber ball · lead weight · coal · dirt clod

clarity and transparency

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Sealed sphere with drifting flakes

dark stone

mystical/divinatory function

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Instrument for viewing minute objects

telescope · calculator · empirical data · spreadsheet · ledger

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G