King James VI of Scotland became so terrified of dark mysticism after a severe storm delayed his wife's sea voyage that he personally attended witch trials and wrote a massive…

King James VI of Scotland became so terrified of dark mysticism after a severe storm delayed his wife's sea voyage that he personally attended witch trials and wrote a massive book called Daemonologie to hunt down sorcerers; he genuinely believed that a local coven of Scottish witches had baptized a cat, tied parts of a dead man to it, and thrown it into the ocean to summon a demonic tempest just to ruin his royal commute, displaying such monumental main character syndrome that he blamed bad weather on a heavily coordinated supernatural feline assassination plot, which eventually inspired Shakespeare to include the three witches in Macbeth, meaning one of the greatest plays in English literature exists largely because a seventeenth-century monarch threw a massive tantrum over a delayed boat!