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Wael Kiwan
A Druze boy from the Lebanese mountains who, from the age of four, said his name was Rabih and spoke of the sea, a boat and other parents in Beirut; he was identified with Rabih Assaf, a young Beirut man who took his own life in California in 1988, although Wael described being shot.
Wijeratne Hami
A Sri Lankan boy born in 1947 with a malformed right arm and chest who said at about two that his arm was deformed because he had murdered his wife; his father's younger brother, Ratran Hami, had been hanged in 1928 for stabbing the young woman he had married when she refused to come home with him.