crystal ball

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Noun

crystal ball (plural crystal balls)

  1. A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.
    The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.
    • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 31:
      "Well, Victor agreed and Madame Rosita sat down with her crystal ball on a black cloth in front of her."
  2. (by extension) A way of seeing into the future.
    If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a kind, hard-working person.
  3. One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes

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