your missing the point, given the situation...even strong and able men physically can outweigh such figures even if this strong and able men are mentally slow nor challenged.
it requires more wit and CUNNING to pull that one too, for puny/feeble man pull the strings and call the shots of something more powerful than him physically during that era...
like if you claim yourself as a god of some sort, maybe it would work back then...but your off to the looney bin if you did that in the 21st century.
