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Loueva Smith, from "Nothing I Haven’t Done for Love," featured in Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials

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Deborah Sheedy

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haiku #11, tathev simonyan

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Misterios de ultratumba | 1959 | dir. Fernando Méndez

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[The tradition concerning the double in folklore] is based on the belief that an essential part of an individual, be it his psyche, soul, astral, spectral form or other asomatic or etheric element, may become dissociated, wholly or in part, from his body, and lead an independent temporary existence. [ . . . ] The double may appear in the shape of a ghost, wraith, or other apparition; it may be captured in a reflection, or live on as a shadow; it may possess the body of another living person.

The double...may appear in the form of a misty and transparent replica of the person, but may sometimes be as solid and substantial as if he were in the flesh. The apparition is called a ghost if the person himself is dead, and a wraith if he is still alive. Equally mystifying is the comparatively rare phenomenon of autophany, or seeing one's own wraith, usually taken to be a warning of death.

Benjamin Walker, Beyond the Body: The Human Double and the Astral Planes

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Il mostro di Venezia | 1965 | dir. Dino Tavella

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Shiho Fujimura in Kaidan yukijorô | 1967 | dir. Tokuzô Tanaka

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EVIL DEAD II (1987) DIR. SAM RAIMI

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La maldición de la Llorona | 1963 | dir. Rafael Baledón

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“Un neutrino mentre colpisce un protone.”

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Mandala, Circle Series IV-VII, Digital Collage, 2025.

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Scotland Power

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