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Doppelgänger

A doppelgänger (/ˈdɒpəlɡæŋər, -ɡæŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -⁠gang-, also doppelgaenger and doppelganger) is a supernatural double of a living person, especially one who haunts the doubled person. In fiction and mythology and in common parlance, the doppelgänger either is a ghost or a paranormal phenomenon, usually perceived as the harbinger of bad luck.

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related to Further reading · 67
Doppelgänger → Arizona Press, Behavioral Neurology, Beitrag, Brugger, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carl, Case Report, David, Death, Der Doppelgänger, Dewhurst, Die, Disintegration, Doubles, Folklore, German, Gregory, Günthers Verlag, Hallucinatory Double
related to Video games · 36
Doppelgänger → Alone, Alucard, Bad Rayman, Baldur's Gate, Candy Château, Carnby, Castlevania, Dark, Dark Link, Deling, Doppelganger, Dragons, Dungeons, Edward Carnby, Final Fantasy VIII, Forest Owls, Galbadia Vinzer Deling, He, In, In Prince
related to Television · 30
Doppelgänger → After, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Anthony Armstrong, December, English, Evil, February, Firefall, Harlan Ellison, He, Hitchcock, Horror, In, It, Kolchak, Mirror Image, Mr, New York Bus Terminal, November, Pelham
related to Film · 23
Doppelgänger → Animator Jack King, Basil Dearden's The Man, Both, Donald Duck, Donald's Double Trouble, Doppelgängerin, Earth, English, German, He, Images, In Das Mirakel, Karl Vollmöller, Prague, Robert Altman, Roger Moore, Sun, Susanna York, The, The Miracle
related to Percy Bysshe Shelley · 19
Doppelgänger → Act, August, Bay, English, Italy, July, June, Lerici, Maria Gisborne, Mary Shelley, Mary's, On, Percy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley's, Percy's, Pisa, Prometheus Unbound, Spezia
see also · 18
Doppelgänger → Ability, Alleged, Alter, Alternative, Creature, Delusion, European, Hypothetical, IslamShapeshifting, Japanese, Literary, One, Perception, Person, Process, Psychiatric, Spirit, Spiritual
has application · 15
Doppelgänger → Criminologists, Doppelgängers, Freud, He, Heautoscopy, In, It, Later, Otto Rank, Research, Sigmund Freud, The, The Doppelgänger, The Uncanny, They
related to Literature · 14
Doppelgänger → Arabesque, Eventually, First, Grotesque, Hoffmann's, In, In Edgar Allan Poe's, In The Devil's Elixirs, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley's, Prometheus Unbound, Tales, William Wilson, Zoroaster
related to John Donne · 13
Doppelgänger → Bald, Bennett, Dr, English, Honour, Izaak Walton, John Donne, Life, Paris, Person, Rizvan Rizing, This, Walton's
related to Music videos · 11
Doppelgänger → Aqua's, Britney Spears's, Commander, Dido's, Die Another Day, Hold It Against Me, Hunter, Kelly Rowland's, Madonna's, The, Turn Back Time

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Doppelgängeris aevil twin of the protagonist0.90text
Doppelgängeris aloanword from the German noun for a person who is a double-walker0.90text
Doppelgängeris aluchador0.90text
Doppelgängerhas applicationResearch0.60section
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Doppelgängerhas applicationHeautoscopy0.60section
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Doppelgängerhas applicationCriminologists0.60section
Doppelgängerhas applicationIn0.60section
Doppelgängerhas applicationHe0.60section
Doppelgängerhas applicationOtto Rank0.60section
Doppelgängerhas applicationLater0.60section

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