8. A child is born with hare-lip, which was caused by the mother's frequently seeing a child with the same deformity during her preg nancy.
9. A mother seeing a criminal broke upon the wheel, bears an idiot child, of which the bones are similarly broken.
10. A woman seeing a person in an epileptic fit brings forth a child which is subject to epilepsy.
11. A lady in London, who is frightened by a beggar presenting the stump of an arm to her, bears a child wanting a hand.
12. A child is born with its head pierced, in consequence of its mother having seen a man run through the body with a sword.
13. A woman is forced to be present at the opening of a calf by the butcher. She after wards bears a child with all the bowels bang ing out of the abdomen. This woman was at the time of the accident aware that something was going wrong in the womb.
14. A similar misfortune happened to the child of another woman, who was imprudent enough to witness the disembowelling of a pig during her pregnancy.
The mere description of an event may affect the child, as in the following curious case.
15. A woman who had listened with con siderable interest to a description of the ope ration of circumcision bears a child with the foreskin split up and turned back ! 16. A woman who sees another affected with prolapsus uteri bears a child affected with the same disease.
The examples of the effect of sudden fright, disgust, anger, joy, &c. are very numerous.
17. A lady absent from home is alarmed by seeing a great fire in the direction of and near her own house ; and some months afterwards bears a female child having the distinct mark of a flame on her forehead.
18. A pregnant woman frighted by her hus band pursuing her with a drawn sword, bears a child with a large wound in the forehead.
19. A man who had personated a devil (or satyr according to other authorities) goes to bed in his assumed dress, and his wife, being then pregnant, afterwards bears a child having horns, cloven feet, &c.
20. A mother frighted by the firing of a gun has a child wounded as by a gun-shot.
21. A pregnant woman falls into a violent passion at not being able to obtain a particular piece of meat at a butcher's shop; she bleeds at the nose, and wiping the blood from her lip, afterwards bears a child wanting the lip.
22. A woman two months before being brought to bed is alarmed by hearing a report that a neighbour had murdered his wife by a wound on the breast, and bears a child with a similar wound.
23. A child is born with the hair of one side black, that of the other white: competent judges declared at the time that both sides would have been white, but for the circum stance that the mother had carried a heavy sack of coals during her pregnancy.
24. A woman frighted by the sudden ap pearance of a negro brings forth a child with various black marks.
25. A mother is suddenly frighted by a lizard jumping into her breast, and afterwards gives birth to a child having a fleshy excre scence exactly like a lizard growing from the breast, to which it adhered by the bead or neck.
26. A child has a face exactly like a frog's, from the mother having held a frog in her hand about the time of conception.
27. The remarkable resemblance of a wo man to an ape was fully accounted for by her mother having been much pleased with one of these animals when with child of her.
The effect of the attentive contemplation of pictures, statues, &c. by pregnant women is worthy of notice.
28. A child is horn covered with hairs in consequence of the mother having been in the habit of beholding a picture of St. John the Baptist.
29. A woman gives birth to a child covered with hair and having the claws of a bear, from her constantly beholding the images and pic tures of bears hung up every where in the dwelling of the Ursini family, to which she belonged. It is not stated by the Author of Waverley, whether any thing of the kind ever happened in the Bradwardine family.
30. A woman contemplating, too earnestly as it appears, a picture of St. Pius, has after wards a child bearing a striking resemblance to an old man.