…white hair, all of which were reminiscent of Taylor. There were also medical and behavioural similarities.18For the full case report, see Stevenson (1997), 1752-57. Xenoglossy in Interethnic Cases When a person speaks a language they are known not to have learned, it is referred to as ‘xenoglossy’. In reincarnation cases…
…in the present life. It can range from influence on accent and other aspects of speech performance (passive xenoglossy) to the use of words and phrases without comprehension of their meaning (recitative xenoglossy) to the ability to converrse in an unlearned language (responsive xenoglossy). Kumkum’s family noted that the child…
…manner with his hands, as Chamrat’s family did, while the rest of Bongkuch’s family ate in the traditional Thai manner with a spoon. Xenoglossy Xenoglossy refers to the use of language unlearnt in the present life. When xenoglossy appears in reincarnation cases, it turns out the language was spoken in…
…He conflated spontaneous reincarnation cases and regressions, using deficiencies of the latter to raise questions about the former. For instance, in his discussion of xenoglossy, he generalized from Sarah Thomason’s comments on Gretchen Gottlieb to raise questions about unlearned language in spontaneous cases. Furthermore, he used the Bridey Murphy case…
Hafsteinn Björnsson (1914–1977) was one of the greatest trance mediums of the twentieth century and the most important one from Iceland. Hafsteinn’s mediumship, which included drop-in communicators and xenoglossy, was investigated in the 1970s by Icelandic parapsychologist Erlendur Haraldsson in Reykjavik and New York. Hafsteinn’s séances produced notable drop-in communicator…
…seeing into the future, he believed the phenomena were real and could not be accounted for via conventional explanations. He concluded: ‘the situation of positivist materialism in front of premonitory cases may be considered as literally untenable’.41Bozzano (1947b), 247. Other Phenomena and Issues In a study of xenoglossy, Bozzano42Bozzano (1932)….
…footsteps, buzzing sounds, the clatter of hoof beats, the rustling noise of clothes as if someone was moving. Direct writing. Writing appeared on paper without human touch. Disembodied voices that spoke and sang (see below). Responsive xenoglossy. There were conversations between sitters and the disembodied voices in languages unknown to…
…show many standard reincarnation-case features, including birthmarks, behavioural continuities, intermission memories and occasional sex-change or xenoglossy elements. What most distinguishes the Brazilian material is its unusually high proportion of international cases, with several unsolved children apparently recalling previous lives in Europe. Follow-up interviews decades later found that some subjects still…
…with his fists, explaining that that is how police conduct interrogations. He often hid when he saw officers. When he described how Sammy had died, Sujith would lie supine with his arm spread out, in the posture in which Sammy’s body had been recovered from the road. Xenoglossy Xenoglossy is…
