No ‘spell’ itself is proven to heal; but ritual healing has many real records — South Africa legislates recognition of traditional healers, the WHO set up a traditional-medicine c…
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An added category (not in the original tables): ritual/shamanic healing, self-healing, natural therapies. Its real records are the richest and most contradictory — governments license traditional healers yet courts also convict ‘faith healers’; medicine confirms self-healing and placebo are real yet rules most ‘miracle cures’ ineffective.
Start with the Big Five →Self-healing is a medically recognised real phenomenon — spontaneous cancer remission has a 3,500-paper case bibliography, placebo can match sham surgery, hypnosis cured a congeni…
Natural therapies span Nobel Prizes (artemisinin came from the military ‘Project 523’ screening of Chinese herbs; light therapy won a 1903 Nobel) and things governments formally r…