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Crystal gazing

Here are entered works on fortune-telling by means of a trance induced by gazing at a crystal. Works on the use of crystals to develop psychic abilities are entered under Crystals -- Psychic aspects.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Fortune-telling

• Catoptromancy
• Crystal ball gazing
• Crystallomancy
• Crystal-vision
• Gazing into a crystal ball
• Scrying
• Spheromancy

• Crystal Gazing: Its History and Practice, With a Discussion of the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying (London: A. Morning Ltd., 1905), by Northcote Whitridge Thomas, contrib. by Andrew Lang
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing (Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, c1923), by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Norwood Gipsy's Fortune Teller (London: W. S. Fortey, ca. 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oracles From the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York and London: J. Wiley, 1848), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room (New York: Clark, Austin and Smith, 1854), ed. by Caroline Howard Gilman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup, by Cicely Kent (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Universal Fortune Teller: Being Sure and Certain Directions for Discovering the Secrets of Futurity (London: W.S. Fortey, ca. 1870) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Fate: Formerly in the Possession of and Used by Napoleon (New York: H. S. Nichols, 1923), trans. by H. Kirchenhoffer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Witches' Dream Book, and Fortune Teller (published anonymously; New York: H. J. Wehman, 1885), by A. H. Noe (Gutenberg text)
• Spook Crooks! Exposing the Secrets of the Prophet-eers Who Conduct Our Wickedest Industry (New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co., c1932), by Julien J. Proskauer, illust. by James Savage and Howard Savage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gap in the Curtain (1932), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Fortune-Telling by Cards (New York: R. P. Fenno and Company, ca. 1920), by P. R. S. Foli (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Absolute Key to Occult Science: The Tarot of the Bohemians, The Most Ancient Book in the World; For the Exclusive Use of Initiates (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), by Papus, trans. by A. P. Morton
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot, by Paul Foster Case (PDF at innerjourneybooks.com)
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by Arthur Edward Waite (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers, by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by A. L. Pogossky (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc., by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
  • PDF at innerjourneybooks.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Egyptian Revival: or, The Evercoming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)