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DOPPELGANGERS

Meaning "double walker" a doppelganger is a shadow-self that accompanies every human or a ghostly counterpart of each person. Only the owner of a doppelganger can see it, otherwise it is invisible to human eyes.

Dogs and cats have been known to see doppelgangers. Providing sympathetic company, a doppelganger almost always stands behind a person, and they cast no reflection in a mirror. They are prepared to listen and give advice to humans, either implanting ideas in their heads, or a sort of osmosis. It is said to be bad luck if it is seen, and rarely a doppelganger will make itself visible to friends or family, often causing great confusion. Doppelgangers can be mischievous and malicious.

You double-goer, you pale companion!
Why mimic you after my love's-suffering
that me tormented at this place
so many a night, in old time?

Franz Schubert, Der Doppelganger


 

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