Searching MEDLINE using "supernatural" terms and keywords yields the following:
Werewolf — 20 citations
X files — 260 citations
Trick or Treat — 74 citations
Ghost — 1634 citations
The Transylvania Journal of Medicine (1828-1839) was published by the Medical Department of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. The university still exists, but the medical school closed in 1860.
Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center investigates apparent paranormal phenomena.
Human sacrifice was widespread as a gift to the gods among the Aztecs in the mid-15th century. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people were sacrificed each year.
Witchcraft medicine uses a variety of plants to treat various afflictions. For example: Leaves from Thuja occidentalis are burned on coals to purify patients and exorcise evil spirits; Phytolacca americana is used by the Iroquois as an expectorant, emetic, cathartic, and for bewitchment; Smashed Linaria vulgarisplants when taken induces vomiting that can remove bewitching; and Sarracenia purpurea is used by sorcerers—exact use is unspecified.
October 31 is the birthday of:
John Keats, British lyric poet and physician, who died of tuberculosis at age 25; and
Marian Chace, who founded and championed dance/movement therapy as a profession based on body-mind relationships.