Shadow person
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A shadow person is a popular subject in circles of the paranormal and the supernatural, detailing beings resembling animate human shadows, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit.
Illustration of a shadow person.
Shade (mythology)
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In poetry and literature, a shade is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld.
Shadow person
…shadows, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit. A number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld, and various shadowy humanoids have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories, such as the Islamic Jinn and the Choctaw Nalusa…
The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780–85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Ten of the Odyssey