Acuto-manzia

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Acuto-manzia

Unusual form of divination by pins practiced by Italian psychic Maria Rosa Donati-Evstigneeff. Ten straight pins and three bent pins are used. They are shaken in cupped hands, then dropped onto a surface dusted with powder. This system would seem to involve some psychic faculty, and is related to such forms of divination as geomancy and tea leaves.