Voltaire--People in Osho's Talks

Voltaire writes in his memoirs that once he was not
famous – as everybody was one day not famous –
and he desired and desired and he worked hard, and
he became one of the most famous men in France.
His fame increased so much that it became almost
dangerous for him to go out of his room, because in
those superstitious days people used to think that if
you can get a piece of the clothes of a very great
man, it becomes a protection; it has tremendous
value, protective value. It protects you against
ghosts, against bad accidents and things like that...

--Osho
The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol. 2, ch. 2