Grigori Rasputin called himself a starets, a holy man, with his “holy powers” being able to heal emotional wounds. (Smith, 50-51)
Nikola Tesla once destroyed his oscillator, the fabled earthquake machine, with a sledgehammer because it grew too powerful. (O’Neill, 163)
Nikola Tesla believed he inherited his “inventive genius” from his mother. (Cheney, 27)
Charlemagne could read but not write because his hands were too damaged from war to hold a pen, yet he would still practice. (Donn)
Peter Stumpp in legend was given a wolf pelt belt from the devil to transform him into a werewolf. (Lyon and Tan)
Arash in legend fired an arrow that flew all day to mark the Iran and Touran border. (Dabashi)
Elizabeth Bathory is the most “prolific Female murder”. (Guinness World Records)
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