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Ma Tin Aung Myo
A Burmese child who, from about the age of four, said she had been a Japanese army cook shot by an Allied aircraft in her own village during the Second World War; she was terrified of aircraft, longed for Japan and kept a firmly male identity into adulthood, but the soldier was never identified.
Mallika Aroumougam
A girl in Pondicherry who, just before her fourth birthday, claimed cushions embroidered by her neighbour's dead sister as her own work and went on to identify with that sister; a case with few verifiable details in which the two families shared a house.
Marta Lorenz
A Brazilian girl born in 1918 to Ida Lorenz, whose friend Sinhá had promised on her deathbed to be reborn as her daughter; from the age of two and a half Marta spoke of Sinhá's life, and a few of her statements concerned things her own family did not know.
