Tuna-mancy

that is to say: the art of the interpretation of the residuals on the bottom of the tuna can

Hi to everybody!

Today I’ll teel you about a new discipline that I invented some time ago.

A day, observing the tuna that remains on the bottom of the tuna can, after humans had poured it into my bowl, I asked myself: what if these residues could mean anything?

Let me explain well: you will surely know disciplines such as tasseomancy, through which you can foresee a glimpse of the future only by observing, with an expert eye, the tea grounds.

Based on this, I wanted to create my own version with the tuna “grounds”, but mind you: all this has been created just for fun and it hasn’t any scientific base (apart from the analysis of the data collected in terms of number of events), moreover it doesn’t take into account of any rules valid for the other divinatory practices.

As scientist, obviously I don’t rely on what the tuna tells me to decide about my days, I encourage you to do the same.

After all these premises, I am pleased to inform you that, after few weeks of data collection, I have come to the development of the principles for the divination practice of my invention which I have called “Tuna-mancy”.

The Tuna-mancy is the art of interpret the bottom of the tuna can, as long as your cat allows you to leave some in the can before forcing yourself to pull out till the last fillet (which I’m sure you always do …).

In order to obtain a result as much as possible not altered by external perturbations, it needs to read the bottom of the can after quickly turning it upside down and letting down the biggest part of the content, without shaking too much. It would be ideal to put all the tuna, or at least the biggest part, in the bowl at the same time.

You photograph that remains, before giving also this to your friend cat.

Now you have your photo, and you can compare it with the example images illustrated in this article.

I precise you that all the considerations here are derived from metal cans of about 6 cm of diameter, that contain tuna (without sauce or jelly). Any adaptation to other cans or contents could cause the result to vary unexpectedly and unpredictably.

Oh, I almost forgot: I am a cat… so, the indications are valid only for your four-legged friend!

I have to confess you that, to decide what “omen” associate to every tuna residuals configuration, I collected a lot of photo of cans (what an effort to eat all these tuna… no, it’s a joke! I have eaten normally and I monitored a period long enough to have a significative number of events) and then… well, then I invented the prediction, basing on the sensations that every distribution of residues gave me.

However, considering as a whole the data collected from all these cans, I can tell you that I did a good job: generally, I obtained a correspondence quite accurate of my life-style (obviously, not including the unexpected events!).

I briefly explain you how I classified all the evidences I got, showing you in the meantime what I obtained for my case.

First of all, I noticed that the residual quantity can vary from “zero residual” to a big quantity. 

This became the base principle for a first differentiation of the indications the tuna will give you.  

So, overturn the tuna can and see: how much residues have remained? I give you an help for the evaluation…

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