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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.
Druze reincarnation belief
Reincarnation is a central tenet of the Druze faith, which holds that the soul passes at death straight into a newborn child. The Druze of Lebanon have given researchers one of the richest bodies of cases anywhere.
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.
Purnima Ekanayake
A Sri Lankan girl, born with pale birthmarks on the left of her chest, who spoke of being an incense maker killed by a big vehicle; her statements matched Jinadasa Perera of Angoda, near Kelaniya, whose post-mortem report recorded crushing injuries across the same area.