Vardøger
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The vardøger or vardøgr is a spirit predecessor, from Norwegian folklore. Stories typically include instances that are nearly déjà vu in substance, but in reverse, where a spirit with the subject's footsteps, voice, scent, or appearance and overall demeanor precedes them in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person, before the person physically arrives. This bears a subtle difference from a doppelgänger, with a less sinister connotation. It has been likened to being a phantom double, or form of bilocation.
The word vardøger is a Norwegian term defined as "a premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives"[1] In Finnish Lapland the concept is known as etiäinen.
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[edit] References
- The Vardogr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness, Society for Scientific Exploration
[edit] Further reading
- Doubles: The Enigma of the Second Self, Rodney Davies, 1998, ISBN 0-709-06118-8
- Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals, Rupert Sheldrake, 2000, ISBN 0-609-80533-9
[edit] External links
- A Unified Theory of the Paranormal
- Miracles examined from a Fortean perspective
- Unconscious in the Astral
- Implanting Memories
[edit] Pop culture references
- Vardogr Album title from Origami Artika
