a doppelganger is like an evil twin. This is what my encyclopedia had to say about doppelgangers;
Doppelgänger is the German word for a ghostly double of a living person. The word comes from doppel meaning 'double' and ganger translated as 'goer'. The term has, in the vernacular come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin. Alternately, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your own image out of the corner of your eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
There are a few characteristics of doppelgangers that are commonly accepted. Firstly, they are visible to no one but the person they are an image of. They cast no shadow and no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are also supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice could be misleading or malicious. They could also, but this is rare, plant ideas in your mind or appear before friends and relatives causing confusion.
....so I guess that now you know your doppelganger is on the prawl it's only a matter of time before there's a face off.
Re: hey rock-star...suspiciousmindJuly 19 2004, 15:34:30 UTC
I'm so sorry! I'm as frightfully forgetfull and flakey as a piece of dander. You're lucky you didn't come because I had to witness this poisonously drunk invividual get thrown down some stairs and then get his head kicked in by hateful drunks and there were police and lights and bad vibes. That was just my friday night. On saturday I had to drag Dustin's almost comatose body home to sober up. This was a bad weekend.......I'm in woodstock recooperating and well. We'll do something this week....maybe wednesday.
Re: hey rock-star...veranoJuly 26 2004, 09:12:11 UTC
I hit, and by hit I mean slammed into, a brick wall of ridiculousness this week and... (drum roll please) of been proclaimed a pretentious bitch! Wooo hoo!
Doppelgänger is the German word for a ghostly double of a living person. The word comes from doppel meaning 'double' and ganger translated as 'goer'. The term has, in the vernacular come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin. Alternately, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your own image out of the corner of your eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
There are a few characteristics of doppelgangers that are commonly accepted. Firstly, they are visible to no one but the person they are an image of. They cast no shadow and no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are also supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice could be misleading or malicious. They could also, but this is rare, plant ideas in your mind or appear before friends and relatives causing confusion.
....so I guess that now you know your doppelganger is on the prawl it's only a matter of time before there's a face off.
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