In folklore[edit]

Divination rituals such as the one depicted on this early 20th-century Halloween greeting card, where a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband while a witch lurks in the shadows, may be one origin of the Bloody Mary legend.

This Halloween greeting card from 1904 satirizes divination: the young woman hoping to see her future husband sees the reflection of a nearby portrait instead.Rituals that involve many of the same acts as scrying in ceremonial magic are also preserved in folklore form. A formerly widespread tradition held that young women gazing into a mirror in a darkened room (often on Halloween) could catch a glimpse of their future husband's face in the mirroror a skull personifying Death if their fate was to die before they married.Another form of the tale, involving the same actions of gazing into a mirror in a darkened room, is used as a supernatural dare in the tale of "Bloody Mary". Here, the motive is usually to test the adolescent gazers' mettle against a malevolent witch or ghost, in a ritual designed to allow the scryers' easy escape if the visions summoned prove too frightening.[6]While, as with any sort of folklore, the details may vary, this particular tale (Bloody Mary) encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards, holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face. There was, however, a chance that they would see the skull-face of the Grim Reaper instead; this meant that they were destined to die before they married.In the fairytale of Snow White, the jealous queen consults a magic mirror, which she asks "Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?", to which the mirror always replies "You, my queen, are fairest of all." But when Snow White reaches the age of seven, she becomes as beautiful as the day, and when the queen asks her mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, 'tis true, but Snow White is fairer than you."[7]Modern day[edit] The Ganzfeld experiment involves sensory deprivation which might be seen as comparable with scrying. According to the small community of parapsychologists, it provides the best known evidence for psi abilities in the laboratory.[8] The Dr. John Dee of the Mind research institute, founded by the parapsychologist Raymond Moody, utilizes crystallomancy to allow people to experience an altered state of consciousness with the intention of invoking apparitions of the dead. Contemporary mass media, such as films, often depict scrying using a crystal ball, stereotypically used by an old gypsy woman. In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth (especially in The Lord of the Rings), the Palantr is a stone that allows a viewer to see what any other Palantr sees, and the Mirror of Galadriel is used as a scrying device to see visions of the past, present, or future. The British astrologer and psychic known as Mystic Meg, who came to national attention as part of the UK's National Lottery draw in 1994, was often portrayed with a crystal ball. In the videogame Clive Barker's Undying, Patrick Galloway (the player) is shown in possession of a green crystal, The Gel'ziabar Stone, which allows him to scrye visions and sounds from the past, that are vital to the various missions.[citation needed] In Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle the use of a mirror to view people and places the viewer knew in the present was possible with the drawback of not being able to see anything to which they had no knowledge. The attempt to scry the future would cost the user their life. In the US television series Charmed, the sisters scry with a crystal and a map to locate people.[citation needed] Traditional healers from the Yucatn Peninsula and Guatemala use stone crystal balls for scrying. These are known as sastun or zaztun. Originally, they were Mayan antiquities that they used to collect in archaeological ruins.[9] Nowadays they are mostly modern objects. It is unknown what was the original use of the jade balls found in ancient Mayan burials.See also[edit] Catoptromancy Crystal gazing Ganzfeld experiment Hydromancy Kozyrev mirror Lecanomancy Macharomancy Magic (paranormal) Psychomanteum Scyphomancy List of topics characterized as pseudoscienceNotes[edit]1. Jump up ^ Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference2. Jump up ^ Caputo, G B (2010). "Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion". Perception 39 (7): 10071008. doi:10.1068/p6466. PMID20842976. Retrieved 13 December 2014.3. Jump up ^ Bell, Vaughan. "The strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion". Mind Hacks. Retrieved 13 December 2014.4. Jump up ^ Richard Bushman Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling5. Jump up ^ Smith, Lucy Mack (1853). The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother. p.101. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)6. Jump up ^ Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture (University of Kentucky, 2004). ISBN 0-8131-2289-97. Jump up ^ Besterman, Theodore. Crystal Gazing: A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying.8. Jump up ^ Modern Ganzfeld Uses. "Scrying Without Crying". PaganPath.com. Retrieved 19 February 2014.9. Jump up ^ Brown L. A. (2000)From discard to divination: Demarcating the sacred through the collection and curation of discarded objects. Latin American Antiquity 11: 319-333 http://www.academia.edu/216688/From_Discard_to_Divination_Demarcating_the_Sacred_Through_the_Collection_and_Curation_of_Discarded_Objects%7CReferences and further reading[edit] A Symbolic Representation of the Universe: Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Scrying of Sir Edward Kelly ~Aleister Crowley, Adrian Axwirthy Crystal Gazing: Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying ~Theodore Besterman Scrying for Beginners: Tapping into the Supersensory Powers of Your Subconscious ~Donald Tyson Crystal Gazing: Its History and Practice with a Discussion on the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying ~Northcote W. Thomas Andrew Lang, Crystal visions, savage and civilised, The Making of Religion, Chapter V, Longmans, Green, and C, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp.83104. Shepard, Leslie A. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Gale Research, Inc. http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/captromancy_or_enoptromancy.html Armand Delatte, La catoptromancie grecque et ses drivs (1932) http://skepdic.com/scrying.html[hide] v t eMethods of divination

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