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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Invoked but then subverted in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS22E6 The Witches of Angel Ridge]]". Medical examiner Fleur Perkins reveals she is the seventh child of a seventh child, but she doesn't have "the gift" so she became a doctor.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E76StillValley Still Valley]]", the Confederate soldier Sgt. Joseph Paradine met an old man named Teague who had magical powers because he was the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. He also made a DealWithTheDevil to use BlackMagic.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E76StillValley "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E11StillValley Still Valley]]", the Confederate soldier Sgt. Joseph Paradine met an old man named Teague who had magical powers because he was the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. He also made a DealWithTheDevil to use BlackMagic.
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* In ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'', Septimus is a powerful wizard, and the seventh son of a seventh son. On the other hand, in this series someone who is ''only'' seventh son isn't necessarily in any way special. This is shown by Septimus's father, Silas, who despite having been once apprenticed to the [=ExtraOrdinary=] Wizard has no great Magkyal power.
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* In ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'', Septimus is a powerful wizard, and the seventh son of a seventh son. On the other hand, in this series someone who is ''only'' seventh son isn't necessarily in any way special. This is shown by Septimus's father, Silas, who despite having been once apprenticed to the [=ExtraOrdinary=] Wizard has no great Magkyal Magykal power.
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* ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'' runs on this, with the seventh or "pauper son" occasionally becoming a Green Man, a powerful mage attached to the spirits of growing things. The line skips any sisters, averting the "seventh child" option, but [[spoiler: as with Darius]] the sons don't all have to come from the same mother. The [[DistaffCounterpart female version of the power]], however, apparently doesn't run on birth order.
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* In Myth/BrazilianFolklore, the seventh child of the same gender in a row becomes a werewolf. Other legends say that the eighth female child becomes either a Cumacanga (in other words: A woman whose head detaches from her body at night and floats around, on fire, scaring people) or a witch.
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** In Argentina to this day, the seventh of seven consecutive sons or seven consecutive daughters is entitled [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_padrinazgo_presidencial by law]] to become the godchild of the President of Argentina. This comes from a tradition brought by Russian émigrés whereby seventh sons could become godchildren of the Tsar. This is widely connected to the werewolf myth, as a symbolic way of protecting the child from it, but [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/29/argentina-kirchner-adopt-child-werewolf opinions are divided as to whether it has to do with the myth at all]]. In any event, presidential godchildren are entitled to receive a nice medal and even a scholarship.
