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Experimental birthmarks
Marks deliberately placed on a dying or dead person's body so that the person can be recognised when reborn; in some cases a child is later born with a matching birthmark.
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.