A ball of decorated, typically coloured or silvered glass, originally used as a charm against witchcraft.
（原用于避邪、现用于装饰的）彩色（或银色）玻璃球，巫球
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Another type of witch ball was made of plain glass filled with brightly coloured tangled threads, which was believed to have the same effect.
No two witch balls will ever look the same, each is very unique in it's appearance.
Winchester was responding to a question about ‘witch balls’ and described hollow glass spheres that were used as covers for pitchers, bowls, and so on and also as floats for fishing nets.
Free blown witch balls are irregular in size and shape and consistent with the artist's vision - Each one is unique with color, strands, bubbles, and size.
For centuries, witch balls have been suspended in the windows of homes to ward off evil spirits.
Fishermen were very superstitious and took the witch balls from the house to protect them against sea-devils and sea-spirits.
Popular in 18th Century England; Witchballs (or witch balls) were believed to provide protection against uninvited spirits and were hung in the window for protection against evil spells.
In England, glass-ball fishing floats are commonly used, as are witch balls, colored glass balls intended to be hung in homes to keep out witches.
Visitors can also create their own ghostly greeting cards and discover the superstitions behind ‘witch balls’ - big ceramic balls which were once hung in windows as a way of warding off evil from the house.
Our gift baskets, witch balls and salt lamps are not readily available in other local stores.
The gazing balls found in many of today's gardens are derived from the silvered witch balls that acted as convex mirrors, warding off evil by reflecting it away.
A witch ball or speculum was a device used for scrying or divining things.
Our witch ball is named ‘Beautyberry’ in cool greens, blues and purple.
It can thus be seen that the breaking of a witch ball was probably not considered to be a very good thing.