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** In the 8th-century Japanese tale of [[wikipedia:Urashima Taro|Urashima Taro]]. Urashima Taro is a young fisherman who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days. After returning home to his village, he finds himself three hundred years in the future, where he is long forgotten, his house in ruins, and his family long dead.
* The concept of travelling backward in time is relatively more recent. The idea was hinted at in Samuel Madden's ''Memoirs of the Twentieth Century'' (1733), and told more explicitly in Alexander Veltman's ''Predki Kalimerosa: Aleksandr Filippovich Makedonskii'' (1836).
* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''{{'}}s ([[Charles Dickens]], 1843) ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas
* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' ([[H. G. Wells]], 1895) inspired 99% of the modern uses of the concept. The book used it to provide a present day [[Framing Device|frame story]] for a tour of the future.
* Zits in ''[[Flight (novel)|Flight]]'' time travels continuously by going into different bodies.
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