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Ampan Petcherat
A Thai girl who, from the age of one, spoke of a life as a small boy who drowned; at seven she recognised his aunt in the street, and her statements matched Chuey Puang Pei, drowned in 1950, whose body had been marked with red ochre.
Bongkuch Promsin
A Thai boy who before he was two said he was Chamrat, a young man of Laotian descent from a nearby village who was stabbed to death at a fair in 1954; he named the two suspects, used Laotian words and kept Laotian food habits.
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.
Ratana Wongsombat
A Bangkok girl who at fourteen months showed an adult's knowledge of Buddhist worship at Wat Mahathat and said she had been Kim Lan, a wealthy laywoman who had meditated there and died after an operation in Sri Racha in 1962.