I was interested in Jen's posting about bad-luck names, because Jane was the bad-luck name in my family and my grandmother was very upset when we named our daughter Jane. Have noticed in tracing my Scot ancestors in the US that all the Janes called themselves Jennie. A connection? Now a question about another belief. As a child I heard that the 7th son of a 7th son was psychic -- I think the term my grandmother (Jane) used was, "could see things." I never knew whether this bit of superstition came from the Scot or German sides of her ancestry. (She was the 7th child of a 7th son and seemed to know in advance when someone close to her was dying.) Perhaps this is the wrong list for this posting but my gr-grandmother, Jane MacDonald MacLean came from Skye. Marion Markham