It is a ritual steeped in pagan mystery, updated for the coronavirus age. Sick people in northern France occasionally leave garments in healing trees in the hope of a cure, following a tradition that persists since pre-Roman times.

COVID masks adorn healing trees in updated pagan rite

Known as rag trees in Ireland, one of several other countries where the practice survives, the arbres à loques show pagan and Christian influences.

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