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The rendering into English of the account of 62 teratologic cases in the human subject with the prophetic meanings attached to them by Chaldean diviners, after the translation of Opport, is given as follows by Ballantyne, some of the words being untranslatable:--
"When a woman gives birth to an infant--
(1) that has the ears of a lion, there will be a powerful king in the country;
(2) that wants the right ear, the days of the master (king) will be prolonged (reach old age);
(3) that wants both ears, there will be mourning in the country, and the country will be lessened (diminished);
(4) whose right ear is small, the house of the man (in whose house the birth took place) will be destroyed;
(5) whose ears are both small, the house of the man will be built of bricks;
(6) whose right ear is mudissu tehaat (monstrous), there will be an androgyne in the house of the new-born
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