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Question

Hello there!,

a mate of mine is really into the Bizzzare stuff and urban legends most likely in magic things but really doesnt practice it just knows alot about the subject one day i heard her mention something called a dalfergaunger (i think that what it is and im not sure if i spelled it right) I was told that there was two sides of a person a good side and a bad side more of a demon kinda thing Im not really sure and that a dalfergaunger was basicly the demon part of a person my question is this is where did this all started im wanting more info on this and its really big bugging me for year even though im a christian. what is it in general? does anyone heard of this before?

Thanks again
Michael

Answer 1

dop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er (dpl-gngr, -gng-)
n.
A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.

Answer 2

I probably wont spell it wright either but I think your talking about a doppelganger.

Its "basically" your evil twin. If your into star trek and all the episode were there was Spock and then there was evil Spock with the go-t. well evil Spock would have been Spock's doppelganger.

or any book, show, or movie, were the main character is met with all the evils of themselves in an image that looks the same as them. Its a universal theam that i do not know the origin of but its call by many other names a well

Answer 3

Dop"pel*gäng`er (?), n. [G.]
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
~ Definition by Webster 1913

Answer 4

it's not evil. some people say it's the other you and claim to be able to release it from there body at will. Something like astral projection. but it's nothing to do with evil

Answer 5

You're thinking of a doppelganger.
It's a German word with it's root in Norse Mythology. For more information, look it up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger

Answer 6

I think the word you mean is DOPPELGANGER, defined as
"a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart. ; or alter ego.

"Doppelganger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person—most commonly an "evil twin". The essential meaning of the German word is "doublewalker", someone who is walking the same way as another person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelganger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelganger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardoger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance.

The doppelgangers of folklore cast no shadow, and have no reflection in a mirror or in water. They are supposed to provide advice to the person they shadow, but this advice can be misleading or malicious. They can also, in rare instances, plant ideas in their victim's mind or appear before friends and relatives, causing confusion. In many cases once someone has viewed his own doppelganger he is doomed to be haunted by images of his ghostly counterpart. Other folklore says that when a person's doppelganger is seen, the person him/herself will die shortly. It is considered unwise to try to communicate with a doppelganger.

FAMOUS REPORTS:
John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelganger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter.
Abraham Lincoln : On the evening of his election he had thrown himself on one of the haircloth sofas at home, just after the first telegrams of November 6 had told him he was elected President, and looking into a bureau mirror across the room he saw himself full length, but with two faces. It bothered him; he got up; the illusion vanished; but when he lay down again there in the glass again were two faces, one paler than the other. A few days later he tried it once more and the illusion of the two faces again registered to his eyes. But that was the last; the ghost since then wouldn't come back, he told his wife, who said it was a sign he would be elected to a second term, and the death pallor of one face meant he wouldn't live through his second term. In his own words, Lincoln was to have said, "It was just after my election in 1860, when the news had been coming in thick and fast all day and there had been a great 'hurrah, boys,' so that I was well tired out, and went home to rest, throwing myself down on a lounge in my chamber. Opposite where I lay was a bureau with a swinging glass upon it , and looking in that glass I saw myself reflected nearly at full length; but my face, I noticed had two separate and distinct images, the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. I was a little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler — say five shades — than the other. I got up, and the thing melted away. A few days afterward I made the experiment again, when,sure enough, the thing came back again. I once tried very industriously to show it to my wife, who was somewhat worried about it. She thought it was a 'sign' that I was to be elected to a second term of office, and that the paleness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term."

In fiction, examples are:
Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Edgar Allan Poe's short story , "William Wilson,"
Some works of fantasy include shapeshifters, as either talented individuals or as a separate race, who can mimic any person.
Another variant, usually seen in science fiction, involves clones, which creates a genetically identical new being without the memories and experiences of the original. Doubles are also seen in fiction involving time travel and parallel universes.
The role playing game "Dungeons & Dragons" includes rare humanoid creatures called doppelgangers, who are able to change their appearance into any kind of humanoid shape and even into specific people.

In modern use, "evil twin" and one sense of the word "doppelganger" have come to be virtually interchangeable. A good fiction story involving evil twins is Stephen King's "The Dark Half"--about an author whose books under his own name don't sell, but under another name are best sellers because they are "gritty crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine". As time passes, the Sheriff notes how gruesome murders occur when this author is in the middle of a blackout, and finds out that the author --Thad Beaumont --had a twin. The unborn brother was absorbed into Thad in utero and later removed from his skull when the author was a child. He had suffered from severe headaches and it was originally thought to be a tumor causing them. This leads to questions about the true nature of Stark (the evil twin), whether he's a malevolent spirit or Thad manifesting a multiple personality.

Answer 7

doppleganger its an evil copy of yourself

Answer 8

You mean doppelganger. Its a german word.

Answer 9

i havent heard of it but i think the ancient egyotians belived in something like that...... i dont remember wat it was called...... why is it bugging u?? why dont u just google it or something?? goodluck