The emperor employed several men who claimed to be able to produce elixirs of immortality or who could communicate with spiritual beings.
He claimed to be able to envision and paint images of departed souls.
He claimed to be able to take on any kind of construction job.
Hippomachus claimed to be able to tell a good wrestler simply by the way he walked.
English was his only real language, though he claimed to be able to speak Farsi.
But Mr Bush was the one who, during the campaign, claimed to be able to "change the tone" in Washington.
The ADS was claimed to be able to deter enemy personnel more than 500 m (1,640 ft) away.
Rifkind reportedly claimed to be able to gain "useful access" to every British ambassador in the world.
Instead of risking the turmoil of "creative destruction", Keynesian economists, working hand in glove with big business and big government, claimed to be able to provide orderly prosperity.
During the early days after the Spindletop discovery, oilmen turned to "doodle-buggers"—soothsayers who claimed to be able to detect oil underfoot using a forked stick.
"It mentioned rat poison as a possible cause and claimed to be able to say that a third party murdered my beloved daughter," she wrote.
