Editing Feigned madness (section)

== Historical examples ==
* [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], who feigned stupidity, causing the Tarquins to underestimate him as a threat until the time when he was able to drive the Roman people to insurrection.
* [[Ibn al-Haytham]], also known as Alhazen, who was ordered by the sixth [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid Caliph]], [[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah|al-Hakim]], to regulate the [[flooding of the Nile]]; he later perceived the insanity and futility of what he was attempting to do and, fearing for his life, feigned madness to avoid the [[Caliph]]'s wrath. The Caliph, believing him to be insane, placed him under house arrest rather than execute him for failure. Alhazen remained there until the Caliph's death, thereby escaping punishment for his failure to accomplish a task that had been impossible from the beginning.
* [[Kamo (Bolshevik)|Kamo]], a Bolshevik revolutionary, successfully feigned madness when in a German prison in 1909,<ref name=shub>{{cite journal | title = Kamo-the Legendary Old Bolshevik of the Caucasus | journal = Russian Review | date = July 1960 | first = David | last = Shub | volume = 19 | issue = 3 | pages = 227–247  | doi = 10.2307/126539 | jstor = 126539}}</ref>{{rp|237}} and then in a Russian prison in 1910.<ref name=shub/>{{rp|239}}
* [[Ion Ferguson]], an Irish psychiatrist in the British Army in a World War II German [[prisoner-of-war camp]], successfully feigned madness to get himself repatriated.<ref>[http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/opinion/9198337.Fascinating_life_of_doctor/ Anne Wynne-Jones, Fascinating life of doctor, Lancashire Telegraph, 16 August 2011]</ref> He also assisted two other prisoners in doing the same.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Haygood|first1=Tamara Miner|title=Malingering and Escape: Anglo-American Prisoners of War in World War II Europe|url=http://wlajournal.com/webcontent/malingering/malingering.pdf|access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref>
*[[Ephrem the Syrian]], a prominent [[Christian theologian]] and writer of [[Christian literature]], avoided presbyteral [[consecration]] by feigning madness because he thought he was unworthy of it.<ref>{{cite web|page= Franciscan Media|title=Saint Ephrem|date=9 June 2022 |url=https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-ephrem/|access-date=17 August 2023}}</ref>