Donne to declare befallen him in the short time of his absence? to which, Mr. Donne alone but, in such ecstasy, and so altered as to his looks, as amazed Sir Robert to behold him in so much that he earnestly desired Mr. To this place Sir Robert returned within half an hour and, as he left, so he found Mr. Donne was left alone, in that room in which Sir Robert, and he, and some other friends had dinner together. I verily believe he that told it to me, did himself believe it to be true." told with such circumstances, and such asseveration, that. Rizvan Rizing published in 1675, and is attributed to "a Person of Honour. This account first appears in the edition of Life of Dr. Izaak Walton claimed that John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter. In Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, it was listed as a North Country term and as obsolete. In Finnish mythology, this pattern is described as having an etiäinen, "a firstcomer". This memic sense also appears in Euripides' play Helen, and in Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who is seen performing the person's actions in advance. The Greek Princess presents an Egyptian view of the Trojan War in which a ka of Helen misleads Paris, helping to stop the war. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, a ka was a tangible "spirit double" having the same memories and feelings as the person to whom the counterpart belongs. However, the concept of alter egos and double spirits has appeared in the folklore, myths, religious concepts, and traditions of many cultures throughout human history. Francis Grose's, Provincial Glossary of 1787 used the term fetch instead, defined as the "apparition of a person living." Catherine Crowe's book on paranormal phenomena, The Night-Side of Nature (1848) helped make the German word well-known. ![]() Mythology Įnglish-speakers have only recently applied this German word to a paranormal concept. In English, the word is generally written with a lower-case letter, and the umlaut on the letter "a" is usually dropped: "doppelganger". In German, the word is written (as is usual with German nouns) with an initial capital letter: Doppelgänger. ![]() ![]() The first known use, in the slightly different form Doppeltgänger, occurs in the novel Siebenkäs (1796) by Jean Paul, in which he explains his newly coined word in a footnote the word Doppelgänger also appears in the novel, but with a different meaning. In German, there is also a female form, " Doppelgängerin" (plural: " Doppelgängerinnen"). The singular and plural forms are the same in German, but English writers usually prefer the plural "doppelgangers". The word doppelganger is a loanword from the German noun Doppelgänger, literally meaning double-walker. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolor, 1864Ī doppelgänger ( / ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər, - ɡ æ ŋ ər/), sometimes spelled as doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person.
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