Editing Scrying (section)

=== Latter Day Saint movement ===
{{Main|Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)|Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)}}
In the late 1820s, [[Joseph Smith]] founded the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] based in part on insights gained from the reflections of [[Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)|seer stones]]. Smith had at least three separate stones which he used initially in treasure-hunting expeditions. Subsequently, he took to placing his favorite stone inside his hat to read what he said were miraculous reflections from the stone.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bushman |first=Richard L. |author-link=Richard Bushman |year=2005 |title=[[Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling]] |place=New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |isbn=978-1400042708}}{{Page needed|date=September 2018}}</ref> Smith also said he possessed a pair of spectacles manufactured from seer stones, which he called the [[Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)|Urim and Thummim]] and which he said enabled him to translate the [[golden plates]] that are the stated source of the [[Book of Mormon]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Smith |first= Lucy Mack |author-link = Lucy Mack Smith |title= The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother |year= 1853 |page= 101 |title-link= The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother }}</ref>