floor and began to
move vigorously.

Copeland mentions a curious case in which a woman was attacked by a
rattlesnake when in her sixth month of pregnancy, and gave birth to a
child whose arm exhibited the shape and action of a snake, and
involuntarily went through snake-like movements. The face and mouth
also markedly resembled the head of a snake.

The teeth were situated like a serpent's fangs. The mere mention of a
snake filled the child (a man of twenty-nine) with great horror and
rage, "particularly in the snake season." Beale gives the history of a
case of a child born with its left eye blackened as by a blow, whose
mother was struck in a corresponding portion of the face eight hours
before confinement. There is on record an account of a young man of
twenty-one suffering from congenital deformities attributed to the fact
that his mother was frightened by a guinea-pig having been thrust into
her face during pregnancy. He also had congenital deformity of the
right auricle. At the autopsy, all the skin, tissues, muscles, and
bones were found involved. Owen speaks of a woman who was greatly
excited ten months previously by a prurient curiosity to see what
appearance the genitals of her brother presented after he had submitted
to amputation of the penis on account of carcinoma. The whole penis had
been removed. The woman stated that from the time she had thus
satisfied herself, her mind was unceasingly engaged in reflecting and
sympathizing on the forlorn condition of her brother. While in this
mental state she gave birth to a son whose penis was entirely absent,
but who was otherwise well and likely to live. The other portions of
the genitals were perfect and well developed. The appearance of the
nephew and the uncle was identical. A most peculiar case is stated by
Clerc as occurring in the experience of Kuss of Strasburg. A woman had
a negro paramour in America with whom she had had sexual intercourse
several times. She was put in a convent on the Continent, where she
stayed two years. On leaving the convent she married a white man, and
nine months after she gave birth to a dark-skinned child. The
supposition was that during her abode in the convent and the nine
months subsequently she had the image of her black paramour constantly
before her. Loin speaks of a woman who was greatly impressed by the
actions of a clown at a circus, and who brought into the world a child
that resembled the fantastic features of the