The Death of Pythagoras

The Wizard of Oz had a subscription service. The Akus Matikoi, he would only speak to them from behind a curtain. They weren't allowed to see his face and they couldn't learn any proper maths. Pythagoras was chased into a field by an angry man who wanted him dead. He refused to step on the beans in the field because that's what reincarnation is like. And so the man cuts his throat and kills him. That's how it happened according to one of many stories.