Talk:Seventh son of a seventh son

message: This article should be linked to other relevant ones. Hydriotaphia 08:19, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
"The seventh son of a seventh son is also widely believed to have a direct link to Satan in some areas, and is thus granted with other "special abilities.""  What "special abilities"? Sexual?? Should be more clear and less. . . ashamed. . .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.60.182.124 (talk) 07:59, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: From Sourcery
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son ... a wizard squared ... a source of magic ... a Sourcerer. 
Found here: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/pratchett_summary.shtml
:-=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 17:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discworld reference 

message: The seventh son of a seventh son is which of the following?
* The seventh child (a son) born to a mother and father then begets at least seven more children, the seventh who is a son.
* Seven sons are born to a mother and father (although they may have more than 7 children), and the son 7th in line then also begets at least seven sons.
* Seven lineages all bear a son, followed by seven more lineages who all bear a son.
Can someone please clarify and update the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 1000Faces (talk • contribs) 05:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning? 

message: In the folklore, do intervening daughters break the sequence?  Th first lines of the article say yes, but further down the same paragraph the answer is given as no.  I'm removing both until we have an answer so as to avoid confusion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.82.82 (talk) 00:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: The article states that in Latin America, this is a curse that "can only be broken if the president is the child's godfather." Seriously? You have to get the President of the country to become the godfather of the seventh son of a seventh son? This reeks of bullshit to me, but as I have no proof, I'm leaving as is. — Eric Herboso 10:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is an article on the Argentinian law: :es:ley de padrinazgo presidencial --Error (talk) 02:24, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Seriously?

message: I,too, like it when the random mentions in pop culture are twice as long as the article itself.  --JD79 (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why the "popular culture" references were deleted. They are modern references to the legend. Why is that not notable? We've already noted that the article needs citations.--Jack Upland (talk) 09:52, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: They're hardly relevant, as most of them only mention 7th sons in passing. It's one thing if a book has a 7th son as a main character, or major plot element (e.g. Sourcery, though that's an 8th son but equivalent to 7th in-universe). It's another thing if a song has one single line that mentions a 7th son in passing (e.g Highway 61 Revisited (song) with "But the second mother was with the seventh son And they were both out on Highway 61."). The music section in particular is complete garbage. Plantdrew (talk) 06:20, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: There is a tradition in tantrism that eating the flesh of a "seven-times returner", i.e. someone who has been reborn seven times as a human being, confers magical abilities, especially aiding the practitioner in becoming enlightened. The flesh is made into pills. I know someone who owns such a pill. 
Like most things tantric, it would be difficult to obtain reliable sources for this! Also, it's not directly related to the 'seventh son' thing. But it seems rather close....
MrDemeanour (talk) 05:25, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tantra 

message: Michael Collins (elder), father of Michael Collins  (Irish Republican/leader/hero) was a 7 of 7 (according to the article on Michael Collins younger.
So, that should be included here as an "example".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.200.217.133 (talk) 20:33, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another example 

message: "The seventh son must come from an unbroken line with no female siblings born between, and be, in turn, born to such a seventh son."
"Dawson was the ninth of 11 children"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Dawson
"“I’m the seventh son of seven sons,” Dawson said of being the youngest male in a brood of 11."
http://www.cantonrep.com/article/20120420/News/304209812— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.180.141 (talk) 
Removed as unsupported exceptional claim, per WP:SELFSOURCE. / edg ☺ ☭ 15:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Len Dawson 

message: * The biography Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record () says, that while Como entertained this factoid, his older siblings included sisters. 
Removed. / edg ☺ ☭ 15:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perry Como 

message: Website is currently down. Only source I can find is his Smashwords autobio, which is probably self-sourced and not verified. Also, who? 
* 
Removed. / edg ☺ ☭ 15:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aaron M. Stephens 

message: There should be a section or an independent article on the seventh son, since there are Belgian and Argentine customs associated with them. --Error (talk) 02:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seventh son 

message: The reference links are broken Jennnayyy (talk) 17:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian Ciarallo and United States