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doppelgänger
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doppelgänger

(German ‘double-goer’) apparition of a living person, a person's double, or a guardian spirit. The German composer and writer E T A Hoffman wrote a short story called ‘Die Doppelgänger’ in 1821. English novelist Charles Williams (1886–1945) used the idea to great effect in his novel Descent into Hell (1937).



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