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Author: BlueIceTea

Oct 8th 2013 at 10:12:58 AM

The Jesus example doesn't seem to fit the current description.  It's also badly worded.

Is this about a foetus that was conceived by supernatural means, or a foetus who is in themself supernatural?  Because when I hear "Mystical Pregnancy", I think of the former, but the description implies the latter.  Of course, those two things often go together, but we need to be clear about what's covered here.

* In the case of [[Literature/TheBible Jesus]], the ''conception'' is supernatural, but the resulting pregnancy and the child are more or less normal.  (Okay, okay, the child does have supernatural qualities.  But they don't manifest themselves for another thirty years.)
* In the example you cite from ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', the conception is normal, but the pregnancy is abnormal and the child is supernatural.
* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' example (as I vaguely remember it), the conception, the pregnancy, ''and'' the child that result are ''all'' supernatural.

Which of these is covered by this trope?