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The tomb of Childeric I, a fifth-century king of the Franks, contained a 3.8 cm (1") diameter transparent beryl globe.[2] The object is similar to other globes that were later found in tombs from the Merovingian period in France and the Saxon period in England. Some of these were complete with a frame suggesting an ornamental object.[3] It has been pointed out that these mounts are identical to those of later globes also believed to be used for magic or divination, indicating that these crystal globes may have been used for crystallomancy.[4][5]
John Dee was a noted British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy, of which the use of crystal balls was often included.[6]
Crystal gazing was a popular pastime in the Victorian era, and was claimed to work best when the Sun is at its northernmost declination. Immediately before the appearance of a vision, the ball was said to mist up from within.[1]
The use of crystal balls for divination also has a long history with the Romani people.[7] Fortune tellers, known as drabardi,[8] traditionally use crystal balls as well as cards to seek knowledge about future events.[9]
The process of scrying often involves the use of crystals, especially crystal balls, in an attempt to predict the future or otherwise divine hidden information.[10] Crystal ball scrying is commonly used to seek supernatural guidance while making difficult decisions in one's life (e.g., matters of love or finances).[11][12]
Crystal balls are popular props used in mentalism acts by stage magicians. Such routines, in which the performer answers audience questions by means of various ruses, are known as crystal gazing acts. One of the most famous performers of the 20th century, Claude Alexander, was often billed as "Alexander the Crystal Seer".[13]
Optically, a crystal ball is a ball lens. For typical materials such as quartz and glass, it forms an image of distant objects slightly beyond the surface of the sphere, on the opposite side. Unlike conventional lenses, the image-forming properties are omnidirectional (independent of the direction being imaged)
This omnidirectional focusing can cause a crystal ball to act as a burning glass when it is brought into full sunlight. The image of the sun formed by a large crystal ball will burn a hand that is holding it, and can ignite dark-coloured flammable material placed near it.[14]
The Sceptre of Scotland has a crystal ball in its finial, honoring the tradition of their use by pagan druids.[16] It was made in Italy in the 15th century, and was a gift to James IV from Pope Alexander VI.
I have always been a huge fan of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. It is definitely one of my favorite rides there! I think it has inspired a lot of my Halloween dcor too. I just love that spooky Victorian look!
To get the image to stand up straight and look right, add a tiny bead of hot glue to the inside of the front of the ball opening. Press the tab on the transparency that is in the opening onto the glue bead.
Now you can add your crystal balls to your Halloween candlesticks! If you have children, pets or husbands that are likely to bump, pick up or mess with these, I highly recommend gluing them into the candlesticks.
Wow, what an amazing craft! I LOVE these! I adore the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, too, and this project is just amazing! I live in San Diego, too- Laurie from Gallamore West has had such nice things to say about you, I thought I would come check out your blog and say hi :) You have such great ideas!
these are the coolest things i have seen in a very long time as far as halloween decor goes. really! i buy up candlesticks when i see them and make cake plate bases out of them but i have extra and would love to try this. my kids are a little older so i might try with them.
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Oh my goodness, Bev. These are fantastic! I went straight to Hobby Lobby, got the glass balls and transparencies and came right home and made them. They are wonderful. Thank you so much for the tutorial and for teaming up with Karen at the Graphics Fairy to provide us with the printable.
These have to be one of the most amazing halloween decorations I have seen, and since halloween is really big for my family I have seen tons!!! And so easy, these will definitely be on our list to do this year.
I noticed how Great of a Halloween gift this would be . And would like to purchase a few of them .
If you could sent me information where I can purchase them I would be thankful..
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You are wonderful at doing tutorials. This is the best explanation of putting transparency in a Christmas bulb that I have seen yet. I never could get how people did this until now. Thank you so much! And this idea is unbelievably cool. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Loved this idea, got everything ready but my printer would not print on the transparency paper. I am going to Office Depot tomorrow and have them print it for me. Other then that I am ready to go. Thanks so much for this great idea. I got 2 old and very ornate wooden candle holders and it will look great in my haunted house. Thanks again, Kathleen
Hi just finished this awesome project. mine turned out great! Wanted to share something I learned. When rolling up and inserting one of the transperancies, I messed up the smoke inside. I poured a little salt in placed my finger over the hole and shook it. It removed most of the smoke and I was able to re-smoke it. (Like it never happened!!) :) thanks for the super great project! Love them
Made these tonight and they turned out great! Tip, make sure your bulbs will fit in your candlesticks. I wanted to use the larger size bulbs and enlarged the pictures only to discover the opening for my bulbs was too big. Luckily I had the smaller size on hand and was able to redo them.
I found this after Halloween, but I need to remember it! I think it would be cute to get images of snowmen, snowflakes, stuff like that, and add to green and red candlesticks for Christmas decoration also!
My transparency also just slid thru my printer and I finally taped a blank sheet to the back and it finally printed on it. I left it for a day to make sure it was dry, I wore latex gloves so I would not get finger prints on it when I rolled it up but all the ink smeared off anyway. Do you have any suggestions. It,s making me crazy! Please help if anyone can. Thannks
If you have old colored round glass Christmas ornaments and a funnel, you can remove the metal cap from the ornament, pour in a small amount of bleach and slosh around. Viola! clear glass balls! Rinse out and let dry. You are ready to make your Halloween globes.
I absolutely love these! I would love for you to come over and link up to the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party at You can link up all through October, old or new posts. I really enjoyed this tutorial!
I engage in this Proustian exercise to make myself feel better as I make election predictions, not shirking from my annual tradition, in the most puzzling and difficult year since I began. This practice has been, for the most part, an oracular triumph.
The real mystery is what Election Day turnout will look like: Are tens of thousands of Republicans really waiting for Tuesday, or are Clark Democrats ready to flood the zone? And will inclement weather deter Election Day voters while neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the postmen from the swift completion of their appointed rounds?
If Clark turnout increases enough because of thousands of mail ballots yet to be counted this week, thus diminishing the rural GOP landslide, Washoe County will be The Biggest Little Cincher. It could change everything.
--Ballot questions: The minimum wage will pass, the sickening transphobic campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment will not be its downfall and the open primaries/ranked-choice voting measure will eke out a victory even though linking those two ideas is as disingenuous as the campaign has been.
Everyone running knows this, so if anyone in a close race declares victory Tuesday evening, they are doing it because they fear what may happen. It will be a Trumpian attempt to cry fraud when none exists, and I only ask you do one thing:
Like with all of the topics I discuss, there are so many ways to think about anxiety that I couldn't possibly cover them all in one blog. Today I've decided to focus on the predictive nature of anxiety, since it comes up a lot in my practice. Predictive anxiety comes from imagining a future scenario that we want to avoid. For example, I have some social anxiety. When I am around people I don't know well, I feel anxious and uncomfortable. This anxiety can manifest itself in dreading social events. When I break my thoughts down, I'm predicting feeling awkward and uncomfortable, not knowing what to say. I'm also imagining that people will not like me, and no one likes rejection. So, if I'm predicting rejection from the start, why wouldn't I feel anxious, which leads to feeling awkward, which then reinforces the negative spiral.
Given that anxiety creates the hell that we're trying to avoid, why do we have it? In this example, my anxiety is a protective strategy I learned long ago. By predicting the future based on events from the past, I'm trying to protect myself from getting hurt. Unfortunately, it's a strategy that's outlived it's usefulness. Since most of us don't own crystal balls, and the magic eight ball is only accurate about 50% of the time, we should probably stay out of the predicting business. Most predicting is based on past trauma and, as I've mentioned, recreates the hell we're trying to avoid. So how can we begin to have different conversations with ourselves?
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