Maybe he comes from the line of David, a shepherdboy who could play beautiful music, so that the crazy become less crazy and Saul the king finally chills out.
Many finds have the ring of folklore: One trove was uncovered in 1910 by a peasant plowing his fields, another when a Ukrainian shepherdboy stepped into a pot of gold.
Just imagine that if, instead of repeatedly misrepresenting the wolf threat, the little shepherdboy used the crisis as an opportunity to galvanize support among the villagers to modernize the security system.