I dreamt that I was in Hell, and that Hell is a place full of all those happenings that are improbable but not impossible. In my fever I had a long consistent delirium. I had at one time a very bad fever of which I almost died. The couple, however, are to be divorced by the clergy. It is considered in Italy to be a great miracle, and is to be recorded in the chronicles. All this has been set down and described by notaries. Both are well, the child is beautiful, and many towns have already wished to adopt it, which, however, has not as yet been arranged. He has also the natural organs of a man for passing water. The aforesaid soldier is able to suckle the child with his right breast only and not at all on the left side, where he is a man. This, however, he kept a secret unto himself and also from his wife, with whom he had for seven years lived in wedlock, but he had never been able to get her with child…. He also stated that while in the Netherlands he only slept once with a Spaniard, and he became pregnant therefrom. When he was born he was christened as a boy and given in baptism the name of Daniel…. … He confessed on the spot that he was half man and half woman and that for more than seven years he had served as a soldier in Hungary and the Netherlands…. Thereupon he was examined and questioned. When his wife was made aware of this, she notified the occurrence at once. An hour thereafter he gave birth to a child, a girl. When the same was on the point of going to bed one night he complained to his wife, to whom he had been married by the Church seven years ago, that he had great pains in his belly and felt something stirring therein. A weird happening has occurred in the case of a lansquenet named Daniel Burghammer, of the squadron of Captain Burkhard Laymann Zu Liebenau, of the honorable Madrucci Regiment in Piadena, in Italy.
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