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Imad Elawar
A Lebanese Druze boy whose statements about a past life in Khriby were written down by Ian Stevenson before any checking began; his parents had pieced them into the wrong story, but they matched Ibrahim Bouhamzy, a young man who died of tuberculosis in 1949.
Nazih Al-Danaf
A Lebanese Druze boy who from about eighteen months spoke of carrying pistols and grenades and being shot; at six his directions led to the family of Fuad Khaddage, shot dead in Beirut in 1982, whose widow and brother tested him and accepted him as Fuad reborn.
Psychological studies of children with past-life memories
Studies comparing children who claim past lives with their peers have not found them more suggestible, isolated or attention-seeking, though some show signs of anxiety and daydreaming.
Süleyman Andary
A Lebanese Druze boy whose memories surfaced mainly from about eleven; he said he had been Abdallah Abu Hamdan, mukhtar of Gharife, 30 kilometres away, who died around 1942, and on his first visit there at thirteen gave the names of seven of Abdallah's children in birth order.
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.