Mysterious illnesses have supernatural and ritualistic cures: Evidence from 3,655 century-old Irish folk cures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 49, December 2025. <br/>SignificanceClassical anthropological and cognitive theories propose that supernatural healing practices emerge when ordinary causal reasoning fails, yet direct quantitative tests remain scarce. Using 3,655 “local cures,” collected as part of a national …