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Definition of Scrying
1. scry [v] - See also: scry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrying
Literary usage of Scrying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Libraryby British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, Dept. of Printed Books, British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, Dept. of Printed Books, British Museum (1906)
"The Now Self-help Series, no. 5. 7410. ceo. TELEPATHY—continued. THOMAS (XW)
Crystal Gazing : with л discussion of the evidence for telepathic scrying pp. ..."
2. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones: Being a Description of Their Sentiments by George Frederick Kunz (1913)
"A remarkable series of tests in the art of scrying, given in the presence of Lane,
... Although no crystal was used, the process of scrying was ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The early church condemned specular ii (mirror-gazers), and Aubrey and the Memoirs
of Saint-Simon contain " scrying " anecdotes of the i?th and ..."
4. Cock Lane and Common-sense by Andrew Lang (1894)
"scrying OR CRYSTAL-GAZING. Revival of crystal-gazing. ... The antiquity and
world-wide diffusion of scrying, in one form or other, interests the student of ..."
5. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"Mr. Thomas gives an historical sketch of "scrying," beginning, of course, with
the cup in ... Many other methods of scrying are mentioned by Mr. Thomas, ..."
6. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"... directly pointed to the manitos or increased knowledge about them, but which
used the manitos' powers. scrying was a practice in which the diviner gazed ..."