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Spectre of the Brocken
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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.