Hagiographic storytelling about Hasidic Masters captured the mystical charisma of the tzaddik. Alongside its scholarly thought were hagiographic stories venerating its leadership. Parson Weems wrote a hagiographic biography in 1809 to honor Washington. Much annalistic, hagiographic, and poetic material survives from the early Muscovite period. Apart from that, most is derived from Hasidic hagiographic accounts. Later tradition and hagiographic texts present inconsistent stories. It is an almost hagiographic biography, written shortly after the death of the Pontiff. Within his own lifetime, Pythagoras was already the subject of elaborate hagiographic legends. The Church of Scientology depicts Hubbard in hagiographic terms. There is a considerable lore of hagiographic tradition concerned with the young Shembe. The traditional legends and hagiographic texts state Basava to be the founder of the Lingayats. The hagiographic data on Liu Haichan are scant. The German author Franz Kurowski covered "panzer aces" in several of his hagiographic accounts. Despite its hagiographic nature, Chapter 36 contains a lot of reliable historical data. In the hagiographic accounts, Aphrodisius was accompanied by his camel.