The child was born with one of its eyes dried up in the orbit, in this respect presenting an appearance like that of the father.

Schneider says a man whose wife was expecting confinement dreamt that his oldest son stood beside his bedside with his genitals much mutilated and bleeding.

He awoke in a great state of agitation, and a few days later the wife was delivered of a child with exstrophy of the bladder.

Hoare recites the curious story of a man who vowed that if his next child was a daughter he would never speak to it.
The child proved to be a son, and during the whole of the father's life nothing could induce the son to speak to his father, nor, in fact, to any other male person, but after the father's death he talked fluently to both men and women.

Clark reports the birth of a child whose father had a stiff knee-joint, and the child's knee was stiff and bent in exactly the same position as that of its father.
Telegony .-- The influence of the paternal seed on the physical and mental constitution of the child is well known.