88 million euros: this is the exorbitant amount that Sardinians spend every year to consult magicians, seers and fortune tellers.

The estimate comes from the Anti-Plagiarism Observatory founded by Giovanni Panunzio who, ten years after his last report on the occult universe and its operators, reveals the alarming data concerning the Island.

«Sardinians spend 88 million a year to have their future predicted, to ask for solutions to love suffering, family and health problems, work conflicts or existential dramas - the Observatory underlines -. They spend eight million euros directly in the magicians' studios and over 80 in online or telephone consultations." According to the study, in 98% of cases the money is collected illegally by magicians and fortune tellers.

The complete 2024 report entitled "Magic, pseudoscience, artificial intelligence and other addictions" will be presented on Friday 17 May in Turin.

According to the report, there are 165 thousand clients of occult operators in Sardinia. The latter would be at least 2,200, of which 200 receive people in the studio and 2,000 operate remotely from all over Italy.

All things considered, the average expenditure of each Sardinian involved is around 500 euros per year . "Furthermore, in Sardinia, unfortunately, dependence on occultists goes hand in hand with other devastating phenomena", the Observatory further underlines. In fact « Sardinians dependent on magical practices and superstition are also dependent, by their own admission, on alcohol (31%), hallucinogens (15%), gambling addiction (42%), online pornography (30%), social media (65% )".

«A cross-section that should make our leaders seriously and urgently reflect - concludes Giovanni Panunzio - so that concrete protections are adopted towards the weakest and most invisible who fall into the devious networks of the occultists».

(Unioneonline)