Holy Spirit and Mary may equal Apollo and Coronis; Exorcising Legion; Psychotraumatic Blindness Then and in World War I

Psychotraumatic Blindness – Jesus heals the blindman of Bethsaida

“Can you see anything?
” I can see people but they look like trees.”

Asclepius heals a blindman
After the god open the eyes of the blindman, the blindman first saw trees.

Traumatized soldiers in World War I experienced the phenomenon of psychotraumatic blindness and blurred vision.

Shortly after shell shock, the patient may complain of blurred vision…may persist for months.
The shock was the primary cause of the blindness.

Systematized delusion insanity can be a description of the Gerasene demoniac.

The story is in Mark.
Luke shortens the story.
Matthew shortens it and changes the possessed man to two men, a particular stylistic device of Matthew.
Matthew changes the location to the country of the Gadarenes.

Jesus asks the systematized delusion insanity, what is your name?
“Legion” was the reply.

But was the one or more Roman legions causing fighters or civilians to be traumatized in the late 20s or early 30s?
No.
Were there Roman soldiers causing rebels and civilians to be traumatized by the Battle of Jotapata, the Battle of Galilee, the siege on Jerusalem along with just the the trauma of famine and cannibalism of the Jewish Civil War?
Yes.

Now, we have to lift this exorcism from the possibility of being something that happened in the late 20s early 30s to something that happened in the late 60s when people were traumatized by the Jewish Civil War and the Jewish Revolt.

World War I therapists of traumatized soldiers did the exact same thing Jesus did: cured insanity and blindness.

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