The first mention of a crystal ball was by the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder when he described how the Celtic Druids practiced divination. Since then, folklore has described the crystal ball as a powerful tool to peer into the future, to see mysteries associated with the past, or to see the present in far away lands. The latter was demonstrated most famously in The Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West used a crystal ball to track Dorothy and her friends’ whereabouts as they traveled down the Yellow Brick Road.
In my conversations with Glowlit users. . .