"found who shared a striking resemblance and the same first name. Doppelgänger A doppelgänger (; , literally ""double-goer"") is a non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon and usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. Other traditions and stories equate a doppelgänger with an evil twin. In modern times, the term twin stranger is occasionally used. The word ""doppelgänger"" is often used in a more general and neutral sense, and in slang, to describe any person who physically or behaviorally resembles another person. The word ""doppelgänger"" is a loanword"
"Wiedergänger The name Wiedergänger refers to different zombie or ghost phenomena from different cultural areas. The word means ""one who walks again"" in German. The core of the wiedergänger myth is the concept of the deceased, who — often in the form of a physical phenomenon — return to the world of the living. They usually cause problems and frighten living people. They exist either to avenge some injustice they experienced while alive, or because their soul is not ready to be released, as a consequence of their former way of life. In different parts of Germany, until the early"
"different pronunciation. In English, the word should be written with a lower-case letter (doppelgänger) unless it is the first word of a sentence or part of a title. It is further common to drop the umlaut on the letter ""a"", writing (and often pronouncing) ""doppelganger"". English-speakers have only recently applied this German word to a paranormal concept. 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. However, the concept of alter egos and"
"look like a disaffected member of Generation X."" In modern use, ""evil twin"" and one sense of the word ""doppelgänger"" have come to be virtually interchangeable. While ""evil twin"" does not connote the sense of ""supernatural harbinger of death"", it can be used to mean ""a physical copy of one's self who has an altered morality"". The term ""evil twin"" has also passed into general usage in a variety of different contexts. In computer technology, it describes a faked wireless access point designed to appear like a genuine one, for the purpose of phishing information from unsuspecting users. The term"
"deeper than those of other ordinary siblings, or facing fierce rivalry. Sometimes twins can represent some ""other"" aspect of the ""self""- either a doppelganger or a shadow. Often in mythology the twin is evil, or the other one may be human and the other is semi-divine. In cases where the ""evil twin"" is not physically distinguishable from the ""good twin"", a typical plot resolution will involve the banishment and unmasking of the ""evil twin"". In the modern usage, the words ""evil twin"" and ""doppelganger"", have come to be virtually interchangeable. While the evil twin does not connote the sense of"
"two nouns ""Doppel"" (double) and ""Gänger"" (walker or goer). The singular and plural forms are the same in German, but English usually prefers the plural ""doppelgängers"". 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 by a footnote – while actually the word ""Doppelgänger"" also appears, but with a quite different meaning. Like all nouns in German, the word is written with an initial capital letter. ""Doppelgänger"" and ""Doppelgaenger"" are essentially equivalent spellings, and ""Doppelganger"" is different and would correspond to a"
"Drude In German folklore, a drude (, pl. ""Druden"") is a kind of malevolent nocturnal spirit (an elf (Alp) or kobold or a hag) associated with nightmares, prevalent especially in Southern Germany. Druden were said to participate in the Wild Hunt and were considered a particular class of demon in Alfonso de Spina's hierarchy. The word also came to be used as a generic term for ""witch"" in the 16th century (Hans Sachs). The word is attested as Middle High German ""trute"", In early modern lexicography and down to the 19th century, it was popularly associated with the word ""druid"","
"""etiäinen"", ""a firstcomer"". The doppelgänger is a version of the Ankou, a personification of death, in Breton, Cornish, and Norman folklore. Izaak Walton claimed that English metaphysical poet John Donne saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter. German playwright Goethe described an experience in his autobiography ""Dichtung und Wahrheit"" in which he and his double passed one another on horseback. In addition to describing the doppelgänger double as a counterpart to the self, Percy Bysshe Shelley's drama ""Prometheus Unbound"" makes reference to a dead child who ""met his own"
"""(mere) mortal"", or ""humble sinner"" with a particularly (self-)ironic connotation, such as in the common saying ""Jeder Jeck is anders"" (lit. ""Every fool is different"", with an idiomatic meaning of ""Different strokes for different folks"" or ""Live and let live""). From there, a transformation into an ethnonym such as for Jewish people would be akin to the fate of similar terms such as Germanic ""man (word)"" and ""*þiuda-"", and the equivalent words for ""person"" or ""human being"" in many other languages around the world. The term is often used in a slightly derogatory or cynical manner, although it is also"
"§Medieval and early modern German texts). Its texts demonstrates that certainly by the Late Middle Ages, the distinction between the ""mare"", the alp, and the ""trute"" (drude) was being blurred, the mare being described as the alp's mother. In Polish folklore, ""zmora"" or ""mara"" are the souls of living people that leave the body during the night, and are seen as wisps of straw or hair or as moths. Accordingly, Polish ""mara"", Czech ""můra"" denote both a kind of elf or spirit as well as a ""sphinx moth"" or ""night butterfly"". Other Slavic languages with cognates that have the double"
"Tuisto According to Tacitus's ""Germania"" (AD 98), Tuisto (or Tuisco) is the divine ancestor of the Germanic peoples. The figure remains the subject of some scholarly discussion, largely focused upon etymological connections and comparisons to figures in later (particularly Norse) Germanic mythology. The ""Germania"" manuscript corpus contains two primary variant readings of the name. The most frequently occurring, Tuisto, is commonly connected to the Proto-Germanic root ""*twai"" – ""two"" and its derivative ""*twis"" – ""twice"" or ""doubled"", thus giving Tuisto the core meaning ""double"". Any assumption of a gender inference is entirely conjectural, as the tvia/tvis roots are also the"
"even an individual or small group of people can harm image of an established brand. For instance ""Dopplegnager"" is a term that is used to disapprove an image about a certain brand that is spread by anti-brand activists, bloggers, and opinion leaders. The word ""Doppelganger"" is a combination of two German words ""Doppel"" (double) and ""Ganger"" (walker), thus it means double walker or as in English it is said alter ego. Generally brand creates images for itself to emotionally appeal to their customers. However some would disagree with this image and make alterations to this image and present in funny"
"Strzyga Strzyga (rarely also in masculine form as strzyg or strzygoń), Stryha () is a demon from Slavic mythology. According to Aleksander Brückner, the word is derived from Strix, Latin for owl and probably the origin of the term Strigoi, a troubled soul of the dead rising from the grave in Romanian mythology. It is unclear how the word strzyga was adapted by the Polish people. A strzyga () is a female demon somewhat similar to vampire in Slavic (and especially Polish) folklore. People who were born with two hearts and two souls and two sets of teeth (the second"
"may be moral disparity between actual biological twins, the term is more often a misnomer. In many cases, the two look-alikes are not actually twins, but rather physical duplicates produced by other phenomena (e.g. alternate universes). In others, the so-called ""evil"" twin is more precisely a dual opposite to their ""good"" counterpart, possessing at least some commonality with the value system of the protagonist. The concept of evil twins is ancient and mythical. One of the earliest may be in the Zurvanite branch of Zoroastrianism. This sect distilled the general abstract duality of Zoroastrianism into a concept of manifest twins"
"Fetch (folklore) A fetch is a supernatural double or an apparition of a living person in Irish folklore. It is largely akin to the doppelgänger, and sightings are regarded as omens, usually for impending death. The origin of the term is unclear. The fetch is described as an exact, spectral double of a living human, whose appearance is regarded as ominous. As such, it is similar to the Germanic doppelgänger, and to some conceptions of the British wraith. Francis Grose associated the term with Northern England in his 1787 ""Provincial Glossary"", but otherwise it seems to have been in popular"
"period affected relationships between the living and the dead generally."" The French Medievalist Claude Lecouteux highlighted Behringer's book in the preface to the 1996 edition of his book ""Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages"". Arguing that Behringer's findings supported his own theories regarding the concept of the double, he lamented however that Behringer seemed ""completely unfamiliar"" with such a theory. Shaman of Oberstdorf Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night is a study of the arrest and trial of Chonrad Stoecklin (1549–1587), a German herdsman from the town of Oberstdorf"
"is further used in contemporary journalism and non-fiction as a convenient label. In astronomy, Venus is often called Earth's ""evil twin"", in reference to the similarity, yet opposition, of the two bodies. It is also a commonly asked question twins get and there are various view points on this. Evil twin The evil twin is an antagonist found in many different fictional genres. They are physical copies of protagonists, but with radically inverted moralities. In filmed entertainment, they can have obvious physical differences with the protagonist—such as facial hair (often a goatee), eyepatches, scars or distinctive clothing—that make it easy"
"Böse Menschen – Böse Lieder Böse Menschen – Böse Lieder (German for ""Evil men - evil songs"") is the second album by the German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz. It was released in 1985. Literally ""Today we drink right"", but means ""Today we drink a lot""; a song about extreme alcohol consumption. ""The sign of betrayal"" - referring to the punk and skinhead scene, which drifted into left-wing (punks) and right-wing (skinheads) circles and so betrayed their own basic idea. ""The hour of victory"" - meaning that everyone will have the chance to strike back and to change their life."
"Syndrome of subjective doubles The syndrome of subjective doubles is a rare delusional misidentification syndrome in which a person experiences the delusion that he or she has a double or Doppelgänger with the same appearance, but usually with different character traits, that is leading a life of its own. The syndrome is also called the syndrome of doubles of the self, delusion of subjective doubles, or simply subjective doubles. Sometimes, the patient is under the impression that there is more than one double. A double may be projected onto any person, from a stranger to a family member. This syndrome"
"to herald someone's imminent death. In this they resemble Banshees. Strzyga Strzyga (rarely also in masculine form as strzyg or strzygoń), Stryha () is a demon from Slavic mythology. According to Aleksander Brückner, the word is derived from Strix, Latin for owl and probably the origin of the term Strigoi, a troubled soul of the dead rising from the grave in Romanian mythology. It is unclear how the word strzyga was adapted by the Polish people. A strzyga () is a female demon somewhat similar to vampire in Slavic (and especially Polish) folklore. People who were born with two hearts"
"sin"" - meaning seven days without sex, because the person concerned has a sexually transmitted infection. ""Hate"" - an anti-political song. ""Workless youths are today normal, the rich more richer, all other is the same"". Böse Menschen – Böse Lieder Böse Menschen – Böse Lieder (German for ""Evil men - evil songs"") is the second album by the German hard rock band Böhse Onkelz. It was released in 1985. Literally ""Today we drink right"", but means ""Today we drink a lot""; a song about extreme alcohol consumption. ""The sign of betrayal"" - referring to the punk and skinhead scene, which"
"""occupy a position between a conception of German identity that excluded blackness and a conception of blackness that precluded any identification with Germanness"". This means that for them, the psychological dilemmas that come with double consciousness is even more profound. For Black Germans in the early 20th century, there was no stable idea or community of blackness for them to identify, or partly, with. They were constantly subject to the white gaze and had no stable line of flight away from white civil society. Double consciousness Double consciousness is a term describing the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in"
"themselves and others. The term ""fetch"" is frequently used today as an English rendering of the Old Norse word ""fylgja"", which in Norse mythology denoted an alter ego, usually in animal form, connected to a person's fate. Unlike the Irish concept, the ""fylgja"" is almost always female. Fetch (folklore) A fetch is a supernatural double or an apparition of a living person in Irish folklore. It is largely akin to the doppelgänger, and sightings are regarded as omens, usually for impending death. The origin of the term is unclear. The fetch is described as an exact, spectral double of a"
"Mephistopheles Mephistopheles (, ; also ""Mephistophilus, Mephostopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephisto, Mephastophilis,"" and other variants) is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in other works as a stock character. The word may derive from the Hebrew מֵפִיץ (""mêp̄îṣ"") which means ""scatterer, disperser"", and ""tophel"", short for ט֫פֶל שֶׁ֫קֶר (""tōp̄el šeqer"") which means ""plasterer of lies"". The name can also be a combination of three Greek words: μή (""mḗ"") as a negation, φῶς (""phō̃s"") meaning ""light"", and φιλις ""philis"" meaning ""loving"", making it mean ""not-light-loving"", possibly"
"Dwarf (mythology) In Germanic mythology, a dwarf is a human-shaped entity that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting. Dwarfs are sometimes described as short and ugly, although some scholars have questioned whether this is a later development stemming from comical portrayals of the beings. Dwarfs continue to be depicted in modern popular culture in a variety of media. The modern English noun ""dwarf"" descends from the Old English ""dweorg"". It has a variety of cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Norse ""dvergr"" and Old High German ""twerg"". According"
"Totenkopf Totenkopf (i.e. ""skull"", literally ""dead's head"") is the German word for the skull and crossbones and death's head symbols. The ""Totenkopf"" symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-bones (femurs), most often depicted with the crossbones being ""behind"" some part of the skull. It is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use. ""Toten-Kopf"" translates literally to ""dead's head"", meaning exactly ""dead person's head"". Semantically, it refers to"
"two syllables and the equal four syllables of the two words in German: Another example is Kafka's use of the German noun ""Verkehr"" in the final sentence of ""The Judgment"". Literally, ""Verkehr"" means intercourse and, as in English, can have either a sexual or non-sexual meaning; in addition, it is used to mean transport or traffic. The sentence can be translated as: ""At that moment an unending stream of traffic crossed over the bridge"". What gives added weight to the obvious double meaning of 'Verkehr' is Kafka's confession to Brod that when he wrote that final line, he was thinking"
"in Middle German, however, literally means ""an animal unclean for sacrifice""; in today's German it means vermin. It is sometimes used colloquially to mean ""bug"" —a very general term, unlike the scientific ""insect"". Kafka had no intention of labeling Gregor, the protagonist of the story, as any specific thing, but instead wanted to convey Gregor's disgust at his transformation. Another example is Kafka's use of the German noun in the final sentence of ""Das Urteil"". Literally, means intercourse and, as in English, can have either a sexual or non-sexual meaning; in addition, it is used to mean transport or traffic."
"High German feminine noun ""helle-wīze"". The compound is a compound of *""xaljō"" (discussed above) and *""wītjan"" (reconstructed from forms such as Old English ""witt"" 'right mind, wits', Old Saxon ""gewit"" 'understanding', and Gothic ""un-witi"" 'foolishness, understanding'). Hell appears in several mythologies and religions. It is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people. A fable about Hell which recurs in folklore across several cultures is the allegory of the long spoons. Hell is often depicted in art and literature, perhaps most famously in Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". Punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed during life. Sometimes these"
"skull & crossbones symbol has often been used to indicate a poisonous substance. Totenkopf Totenkopf (i.e. ""skull"", literally ""dead's head"") is the German word for the skull and crossbones and death's head symbols. The ""Totenkopf"" symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-bones (femurs), most often depicted with the crossbones being ""behind"" some part of the skull. It is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use. ""Toten-Kopf"" translates"
"Alp (folklore) An Alp (plural ""Alpe"" or ""Alpen"") is a supernatural being in German folklore. Not to be confused with the similarly named Alp-luachra, the ""Alp"" is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. It is distinct from both of these creatures in that it wears a magic hat called a ""Tarnkappe"", from which it draws its powers. The word ""Alp"" is the German form of the word that comes into English as ""elf"", both descended from Common Germanic. It is also known by the following names: ""trud"", ""mar"", ""mart"", ""mahr"","
"Alter ego An alter ego (Latin for ""other self"") is a second self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. A person who has an alter ego is said to lead a double life. The term appeared in common usage in the early 19th century when dissociative identity disorder was first described by psychologists. Cicero coined the term as part of his philosophical construct in 1st-century Rome, but he described it as ""a second self, a trusted friend"". A distinct meaning of ""alter ego"" is found in literary analysis used when referring to"
"protect horses against matted manes or tails. ""Drudenfuss"" is another name for mistletoe. Drude In German folklore, a drude (, pl. ""Druden"") is a kind of malevolent nocturnal spirit (an elf (Alp) or kobold or a hag) associated with nightmares, prevalent especially in Southern Germany. Druden were said to participate in the Wild Hunt and were considered a particular class of demon in Alfonso de Spina's hierarchy. The word also came to be used as a generic term for ""witch"" in the 16th century (Hans Sachs). The word is attested as Middle High German ""trute"", In early modern lexicography and"