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  • If he turn his cloak or plaid, he will obtain the full sight which lie desires, and may probably find it to be his own fetch, or wraith, or double-ganger.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • I can hardly believe it was myself who went to that horrible place, I wish you could prove that it was my double-ganger. '

    Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • a more vigorous bite -- alas! it had none of the flavour of the veal and porter; so I discovered that the law of optics was unchanged, and that I had escaped the infliction of so voracious a double-ganger.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Felix, with due love of the miraculous, will have it that the Suicide in the inn was not Paris, but some double-ganger of his.) -- Robespierre sees reason to think that Prince d'Artois himself is privately in Town; that the Convention will be butchered in the lump.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • If he turn his cloak or plaid, he will obtain the full sight which he desires, and may probably find it to be his own fetch, or wraith, or double-ganger.]

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

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