In other cases they are asserted by credible witnesses to have given to the scryer information, about events distant in time or place, that had not come to his knowledge by normal means.
In some cases these visions have brought back to the mind of the scryer facts or incidents which he could not voluntarily recollect.
Thus the conditions under which the scryer can scry, are, as yet, unascertained.
The accomplished scryer can see as well in a crystal ringstone, or in a glass of water, as in a big crystal ball.
Grace, and the scryer saw an old man crawling along with a stick.
The description given by the scryer then may come right by a fortuitous coincidence, or may be too credulously recognised.
Sometimes the figures seem clearly defined within the crystal and limited thereby; sometimes all perception of the crystal or other speculum disappears, and the scryer seems clairvoyantly introduced into some group of life-sized figures.
People who cannot scry may have these hypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.
But, as a rule, the scryer cannot detect any process of development from such points de mire; though this may be the actual process.
The scryer may let his consciousness play freely, but should not be disturbed by lookers-on.
But the visions of the scryer often endure for a considerable time.
These Egyptian experiments of 1830 were vitiated by their method, the scryer being asked to see and describe a given person, named.
Others see in the glass coloured figures of men, women and animals in motion; while in rarer cases the ball disappears from view, and the scryer finds himself apparently looking at an actual scene.
On one occasion the scryer could see nothing, "the crystal preserved its natural diaphaneity," as Dr Dee says; and there were failures with two or three inquirers.
These things may have had some effect by way of suggestion; the scryer may have been brought by them into an appropriate frame of mind; but, as a whole, they are tedious and superfluous.
The experiments took this form: any person might ask the scryer (a lady who had never previously heard of crystal-gazing) "to see what he was thinking of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scryer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
