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 * Doppelgänger**

= __ Doppelganger __ =
 * === It’s the tangible double of a living person in fiction, folklore, and pop culture that represents evil.[[image:imagesCAFFT9I4.jpg width="198" height="161" align="right"]] ===
 * === Any double or look-alike of a person ===
 * === Can be bilocation ===
 * === Is bad luck ===
 * === Seeing your own doppelganger is an omen of death. ===
 * === One that haunts such a person. ===
 * === An evil twin. ===
 * === A remarkably similar double. ===
 * === A person who has the same name as another. ===
 * === A fantastic monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them. ===

===Doppelganger is used to describe the sensation of having seen oneself with peripheral vision, when there is no way that it could have been a reflection. Doppelgangers are usually shown as a sinister form of bilocation and are generally harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, if a doppelganger is seen by a person's friends or relatives, it foretells illness or danger. Seeing your own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse moythology,**vardøgr** is a ghostly double who foretells a living person's events and is seen performing the events in advance. In Finnish mythology, this is called having an **Etiäinen, which is a first comer**. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, a "ka" was a tangible "spirit double" having the same memories and feeling as the original person.===

= __ Cases of Doppelgangers:  __ =
 * === Percy Bysshe Shelley: July 8, 1822; Drowned in the Bay of Spezia. His wife, Mary Shelley wrote a letter on August 15, tell her friend that Percy claimed to have met his own doppelganger. Other friends had also seen Percy’s doppelganger. ===
 * === John Donne: Saw his wife doppelganger while at Paris in 1612. His wife had walked by him twice holding their still-born daughter. ===
 * === George Tryon: He walked through the drawing room of his family home, in front of several guests at a party being given by his wife on 22 June 1893, while he was supposed to be on a ship, maneuvering off the coast of Syria. It was reported that he had gone down with his ship, HMS Victoria that very same night, after it had collided with another ship. ===

= __ History & Pop Culture __ = Doppelganger Definition Doppelganger Wikipedia Doppelganger Monsters
 * === German: Doppel- Double. Ganger- Goer. ===
 * === First used by Jean Paulin in his story; Siebenkas (1796). It was explained in a footnote. ===
 * === In Jose Saramago's 2001 novel __The Double__, both men's baser instincts come to the surface and they attempt to take advantage of each other. ===
 * === Torment is occasionally earned; for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "William Wilson," the protagonist of questionable[[image:imagesCAYSHXDV.jpg width="209" height="153" align="right"]] morality is dogged by his doppelganger most tenaciously when his morals fail. A similar device is employed in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's short story "The Double: A Petersburg Poem". When doppelgangers are used as harbingers of impending destruction, they are almost always supernaturally based.  ===
 * === Some works of fantasy include Shape Shifters, as either talented individuals or as a separate race, who can mimic any person. In the TV series The Vamprie Diaries Elena Gilbert is a doppelganger of her ancestor Katherine Pierce. ===
 * === And in the feature [[image:Natalie-Portman-Black-Swan-mirror-image.jpg width="100" height="71" align="left"]]film, Black Swan, Natalie Portman's character experiences crossing paths with her doppelganger several times, as well as confusing a similar looking girl with her doppelganger throughout the film. ===
 * === Charles Williams' novel, Descent into Hell, a doppelganger is a significant part of the plot as the heroine's fear of the doppelganger drives relationships and choices. ===
 * === In Stephen King's book The Dark Half, the main character, Thad Beaumont, thinks he's being tormented by a murderous doppelganger. But is revealed later that he's indeed the ghost of Thad's twin who had died in his childhood, and acquired an own life when Thad invented a fictional character for the book he was writing.[[image:imagesCA1PN06W.jpg width="144" height="92" align="right"]] ===