phobias
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Behavioural memories
Phobias, skills, habits, attachments and play that match the life a child remembers; often considered stronger evidence than what the child says.
Children’s Past Lives (Bowman)
Carol Bowman's 1997 book for parents, which began with her own children's apparent memories of a Civil War battle and a house fire. It mixes family story, cases sent in by parents and practical advice, and helped bring children's past-life memories to a wide Western audience.
Gnanatilleka Baddewithana
A Sri Lankan girl who said she had been a boy from the hill town of Talawakele; dozens of her statements were written down before the family was traced, and they matched Tillekeratne, a 13-year-old who died in 1954, whose relatives she identified at a recorded meeting.
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.
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.
Ravi Shankar Gupta
An Indian boy from Kanauj who from the age of two said he was Munna, a six-year-old murdered six months before his birth; he named the two men arrested for the killing and had a long mark across his neck that he linked to the fatal wound.
Sujith Lakmal Jayaratne
A Sri Lankan boy whose statements about being 'Gorakana Sammy' were written down by a monk before any checking and matched Sammy Fernando, an arrack distiller killed by a lorry in 1969; as a toddler Sujith asked for arrack and acted out a drunkard's habits.