Nothing is more certain, than that the Causes above-mentioned have had no small Share in the propagating a Belief among the People of their Existence; and this appears by a Custom, that long prevailed amongst the _Pagans_ in _Italy_, who, upon the Birth of such Children, as were thought Hermaphrodites, always consulted their Religious and Wise-Men[14] what to do with them. A remarkable Instance of this Kind happened in a Town in _Campania_ in _Italy_, called _Frusino_, where a Child being born of a monstrous Size, and another at _Sinuessa_ whose Sex was doubtful, insomuch, that they could neither judge it Male nor Female, it was laid before the Magistrates, who immediately sent for some of the _Aurispices_, out of _Hetruria_, and they pronounced it, ‘_Fædum ac turpe prodigium_[15],’ whereupon it was thrown into the Sea according to the aforesaid Law. But this was not enough, for as by the Superstition of these Soothsayers and the _Pontifices_, such Children were thought to portend some Evil, there was a Ceremony that always succeeded their Destruction, which was performed by twenty-seven Virgins, who marched in Procession, singing about the City, and offered Sacrifices to _Juno_, to avert the Evil which they imagined was boded by the Child’s Birth. This happened many Times afterwards in _Italy_; and even the Christian Emperor _Constantine_, according to _Eusebius_[16], made Laws against them; for about this Time the River _Nile_ not flowing so much over the Lands as usual, the Blame was laid to their _Androgyni_ who worshipped and bathed in it amongst the People; whereupon the Law made against them was, that they should be looked upon as a spurious Breed, and destroyed[17]. ‘When the People of _Egypt_, and particularly those of _Alexandria_, worshipped the River (_Nile_), a Law was issued out against certain Men of an effeminate Nature, who worshipped among them; whereby all those commonly accounted Androgyni were to be destroyed, as an uncertain and spurious Race, nor was it permitted even to look on those that had such lascivious Disorders.’ Some time after the Law was made, the River began to flow freely, and swelled again over the Banks, as before. The Superstition of the Inhabitants was gratified, who, no doubt, owed the Restoration of the Waters to the cruel Law made against those miserable human Creatures. In order more clearly to illustrate under what Restrictions such, as were reputed Hermaphrodites, lay, touching the _Jewish_, as well as the Canon and Civil, Laws of later Date, I have taken from _Casper Bauhinus_[18] as many Tracts as he has collected, in his own Words as follows; whereby the Reader will be the better informed, how much these erroneous Notions concerning them prevailed from the beginning. _Of the ~Jewish~ Laws concerning Hermaphrodites_[19].