# Mercury-Glass Scrying Orb

> A hand-blown, double-walled glass sphere from a Bohemian workshop, silvered inside in the old mercury-glass way. It shows the room back slightly wrong, and folklore says the seeing begins there.

Price: 54.00 USD · in stock

## About
Hang it in a window at dusk and watch the room appear inside it, curved and silvered and not quite right. This is a witch ball in the older sense: a hand-blown glass sphere about ten centimeters (four inches) across, double-walled and silvered on the inside, so it mirrors the whole room back in a warped, dreamlike convex.It is made in a Bohemian workshop that has practiced the craft for generations, using the true old mercury-glass technique rather than a modern spray coating. In folklore, reflective spheres like this were hung in cottage windows across Europe to catch and confuse ill fortune before it could settle indoors, and they were gazed into for scrying, the dark, curved surface offering the eye a place to lose its usual focus. Folklore holds that the room it shows back is always slightly wrong, and that the seeing begins exactly there.DetailsMaterial: Hand-blown, double-walled glass, silvered insideSize: About 10 cm (4 in) acrossMade in: A Bohemian glass workshopHow to useRest it in a small stand on a shelf or windowsill, or hang it by its loop in a window where daylight can move across the silvering. Handle it by the neck rather than the widest curve, and keep it away from the edge of any surface: hand-silvered, double-walled glass is fragile. It is sold as a curiosity, with no medical or scientific claims.A window onto the room you thought you knew.