Mikhail Черновић and other Internet Slavs are on the case of the Demons. NephCon aside, we have good data on parasites and how they act... like a demon might.
I am unsure how far prayer helps directly. What does help directly is expulsion of the parasites. Ivermectin does this. So does the old-fashioned way: fasting. It may be that prayer, by subordinating (what you think is) your will to an outside power, shows you where your will is becoming the wasps' will.
Yesterday one Joseph Noel Walker raised that Darwin's stomach problems came from some parasite or other. Usually here is cited the helicobacter, famously to be discovered by a mad lad who infected himself by design. Seriously: do not try this at home.
Back to the Christians I wonder how many other nasty Late Antique bugs were solved by going out into the desert and subsisting on sterilised foods, like dried unleavened bread left out to be nuked by the dry sun. Not all the Orthodox hermits are to be dismissed.
Darwin, overall, was a man ahead of his time. But an Orthodoxy behind his time might have saved him.
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