Apparition

Generally, an apparition is an instance of something's appearing, i.e. being seen. The term may refer to:

Supernatural

• Apparitional experience, an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience
• Vision (spirituality), inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being
• Marian apparition, in which the Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared
• Ghost, the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person
• Doppelgänger, the ghostly double of a living person
• Bilocation, the ability/instances in which an individual appears to be located in two distinct places at the same instant in time
• Apparition (Harry Potter), a form of teleportation in the Harry Potter series

Media (television, art, and music)

Music

• Apparition (Burning Inside album), an American album, released

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• Apparition (EP), a 2009 EP by The Contortionist
• Apparition (The Legendary Pink Dots album), 1982 album by Anglo-Dutch group, by The Legendary Pink Dots
• "Apparitions" (song), a 1998 song by Matthew Good Band
• Apparitions (EP), a 2015 EP from Dutch black metal band Urfaust, released on Ván Records.
• "The Apparition", a song from Iron Maiden's 1992 album Fear of the Dark

Other media

• Apparition (company), a newly formed film distribution company in the U.S.
• The Apparition, a 2012 American supernatural horror film
• Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, a 1938 painting by Salvador Dalí
• Apparitions (TV series), a 2008 BBC series about an exorcist
• Phantom Girl (also known as Apparition Girl), a DC Comics superheroine
• Apparitions, an orchestral work by György Ligeti
• Apparitions, a 1936 ballet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton with music by Franz Liszt
• Apparitions, creatures in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Other uses

• Apparition Mountain, Alberta, Canada
• The return of a periodic comet

See also

• Appearance (disambiguation)
• Demonic possession
• Eidolon (disambiguation)
• Ghost (disambiguation)
• Phantom (disambiguation)