Birthmarks and birth defects corresponding to wounds on deceased persons
Ian Stevenson · 1993 · Journal of Scientific Exploration, 7(4), 403-410
Summary
Article summarizing cases in which children's birthmarks or birth defects appeared to correspond to wounds on deceased persons they claimed to remember.
Why it matters here
A shorter primary paper that makes the birthmark/wound claim directly, useful beside the much larger 1997 monograph.
Linked claims
A subset of past-life cases include birthmarks or birth defects whose location matches reported wounds — sometimes with autopsy verification.
Decades of cases of young children making specific, verifiable claims about a deceased stranger's life — across many cultures, with reproducible sub-patterns (≈70% violent deaths, family-rebirth clusters).
If past-life cases are taken seriously, reincarnation is the most economical narrative — but several other models also fit the data.
Related evidence hubs
Children's past-life memories, birthmark cases, and the rebirth interpretation.
Past-life memories, karma, soul contracts.
Whether anything of mind continues.
World religions and traditions, scored as systems.