Empedocles thought he was a God and jumped into a volcano as he believed himself divine therefore leaping into Mount Etna’s volcano to prove his immortality. Pythagoras had an irrational fear of beans and therefore forbade beans within his educational institution as he believed beans contained souls of the dead and were correlated with the gates of the underworld Hades, with this taboo being so central to his identity that he reportedly chose death rather than cross a bean field between 490 - 49...
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