Vardøger

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" [http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/16.4_leiter.pdf] In Finnish Lapland the concept is known as etiäinen.

References

* [http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts/v16n4a7.php The Vardogr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness] , Society for Scientific Exploration

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
* "Phone Calls From the Dead" [chapter on "intention" phone calls] , D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless, 1980, ISBN 0-425-04559-5

External links

* [http://www.beckjord.com/unifedtheory.html A Unified Theory of the Paranormal]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/saints-alive.html Miracles examined from a Fortean perspective]
* [http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/206 Unconscious in the Astral]
* [http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/ufos/abductees.html Implanting Memories]

Pop culture references

* [http://www.silbermedia.com/origamiarktika/vardogr-reviews.html Vardogr] Album title from Origami Artika