: I am searching for a word/name that fits a person that has the ability to swap bodies with another human Not to be confused with a person who can morph themselves into someone else or a

Not to be confused with a person who can morph themselves into someone else or a creature by will, but someone who has an ability to body swap - without necessarily having control over it. I am writing a short fiction story and I am looking for acceptable sounding names/words to describe this action and the scientific name for body swapping. I have come across Changeling, Morphling, and Automorphic but all of these suggest a way of having control over of changing one's own physical appearance. I am looking for something more specific to the actual switching of bodies.

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Thanks so much to everyone for their suggestions. I went with a different direction. I did some research and made up a name and origin to fit my needs for this story. I can't post what I went with because I made it up myself and this story is not finished. But this is the research I used----
Name origin: Latin - Vicarius; substitute, proxy, to live through another. Origin: Nordic/Gaelic folklore. Derived from Scandinavian Changelings and the Seilie Court (Scottish Faries).

I would like to close this post as I have found my answer but I can't figure out how.

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@Murray831

There is one Latin book from 1670s, Speculum carmelitanum, that calls this "corporislatro", thief-of-the-body.

Although the Latin name is ugly, perhaps "body thief" would catch up.

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@Jamie945

Why not just go with 'Switcher'

Or maybe 'Jumper'

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@Pope4766717

I don't think that there is a real word for this. I would use "swapper."

I chose swapper over a number of alternatives. The closest one, to me, is "jumper."

However, a swapper, to me, jumps to a new body and that body's mind jumps to the former body. Notice that the normal person's mind is now stuck in this body forever, unless he can find and force the swapper to put him back.

A jumper, on the other hand, feels like it would jump to another body and one of two things would happen: the old body would just drop dead because it has no consciousness, or the original consciousness would "wake up" (maybe not immediately) and take over it's original body again. It would depend of if the jumper destroys the consciousness or suppresses it.

I am trying to remember the book in which a group of swappers existed. I believe it was in the Wild Cards series. These swappers were eventually captured and forced to put people right again. Then they were put into old/sickly bodies and put in a prison farther away from people than the range of their power.

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