Kefitzat Haderech (Hebrew: קְפִיצַת הַדֶּרֶךְ, romanized: qəp̄îṣáṯ haddéreḵ, lit. 'contraction of the road') is a Hebrew term used in Jewish sources, referring to miraculous travel between two distant places in a brief time.
The word shukuchi (縮地) is a Japanese-language term for various mythical techniques of rapid movement. The characters in the word can be rendered literally as "shrinking the earth," referring to how the technique reduces the spatial distance between two points to achieve its effect.
Tay al-Arḍ is the name for thaumaturgical teleportation in the mystical form of Islam and Islamic philosophy. The concept has been expressed as "traversing the earth without moving"; some have termed it "moving by the earth being displaced under one's feet".
The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras was said to have been capable of bilocation. According to Porphyry (writing several centuries after Pythagoras): Almost unanimous is the report that on one and the same day he was present at Metapontum in Italy, and at Tauromenium in Sicily, in each place conversing with his friends, though the places are separated by many miles, both at sea and land, demanding many days' journey.[2][3] A similar story is told of Apollonius of Tyana, who was supposedly present simultaneously in Smyrna and Ephesus.[4]
Tayy al-Arḍ (Arabic: طيّ الأرض "folding up of the earth" or "covering long distances in the twinkling of an eye"1) is the name for thaumaturgical teleportation in the mystical form of Islamic religious and philosophical tradition. The concept has been expressed as "traversing the earth without moving"; some have termed it "moving by the earth being displaced under one's feet".