How Disease is Caused and Cured In traditional curing, while diseases have biological symptoms and may be treated with medicinal cures, they also have a non-empirical component. Generally this is thought of in terms of humors. This may have happened accidentally, but it is frequently associated with sorcery.
Sorcerers shoot magic objects into their opponents bodies.
The individual is possessed. Curing generally involves embedding the disease in a story involving the non-empirical world. Imitative magic hurls disease out or lures soul back in. All material Richard L. Warms, 1997. Last updated September 22, 1997.