[ folk medicine types - dare I say shaman? witches? ]
Con artists.
Algore's Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle AzGore hoodwinks the sheeple by "Making the Sun Go Dark".
Got Shock and Awe?
Others have noted that Adam Smith came from a family with a long history of being folk seers - folk medicine types - dare I say shaman? witches? - and that Smith may have had a predisposition to seeing visions or interpreting events through the now forgotten shamanistic traditions (the English were not always Christians) that Smith then fleshed out by borrowing from the Koran and other sources - especially since it was a way he could earn a living. He used to use his seer ability to tell people were to look for buried treasure - sort of like water witches/dowsers.
It seems from the late 170o to early 1800s Americans in the frontier areas there was in a fever about buried treasures - probably the result of American settlers stumbling upon Indian burial mounds.
Welcome, n00bie. Watch your back if you’re going to address the heresies in Mormonism ... Mormonism Apologists will see your posts as a threat to their cultish belief system and zero in to denigrate you and your offerings. There is a group known as the Flying Inmans which try to keep the threads focused upon Mormonism rather than the individual adherents caught up in that religion.