Xenoglossy
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Bishen Chand Kapoor
A boy from Bareilly, India, who from infancy spoke of a life as Laxmi Narain, a rich and hard-living young man of Pilibhit who died in 1918. A lawyer wrote down many of his statements before they were checked, and nearly all proved correct.
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.
Duminda Ratnayake
A Sri Lankan boy who from the age of three said he had been a chief monk at the Asgiriya temple in Kandy, behaved like a monk and chanted Pali verses; his statements best fitted Gunnepana Saranankara, abbot from 1921 to 1929, whom he later picked out in an old photograph.
Gretchen (Dolores Jay)
A 1970s American case in which a minister's wife, under hypnosis, became 'Gretchen', a German girl of the nineteenth century who answered questions in simple German; investigated by Ian Stevenson.
Ian Stevenson
Canadian-American psychiatrist who founded the modern scientific study of children who remember previous lives, investigating cases on four continents over four decades at the University of Virginia.
Swarnlata Mishra
An Indian girl who from the age of three described the life of Biya Pathak of Katni, who died in 1939; she later recognised many of Biya's relatives, some of whom tried to mislead her, and sang Bengali songs she linked to a second, unidentified life.
Uttara Huddar
A Marathi-speaking lecturer in Nagpur who from 1974, aged 32, had phases as 'Sharada', a Bengali-speaking married woman of the early nineteenth century; male relatives Sharada named matched a family genealogy from Bansberia, and two independent investigations found no ordinary way Uttara could have learned to speak Bengali.