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Spectre of the Brocken

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN (so named from having been first observed in 1780 on the Brocken), an enormously magnified shadow of an observer cast upon a bank of cloud when the sun is low in high mountain regions, reproducing every motion of the observer in the form of a gigantic but misty image of himself.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Spectre of the Brocken'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/spectre-of-the-brocken.html. 1910.
 
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