SUPERSTITIONS : A Seventh Child Possesses Special Powers LORE & SOURCES Certain qualifications were essential to the healer's art. Being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter (or seventh son of a seventh son) brought the power to heal by touch especially if the parents had been seventh children. Seven was accepted as the most sacred of numbers, and seventh children possessed 'second sight' and the art of seeing the future. Although today it is not so common to find a family with as many as seven children, until the end of the Victorian era huge families were very common. Another reason presumably, why there are so few mystics in the latter part of the twentieth century! The only source that makes any clear practical sense with regard to seventh children, apart from the sacredness of the number seven, it that large families originally selected the seventh child to become a doctor as a matter of tradition (the child was known as the Septimus child). Thus science and religion were brought together in a way that is rarely the case today... BACK TO TOP

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