diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index f648719..43b1e50 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ const REPLACERS = [
     // > "**/foo/bar" matches file or directory "bar" anywhere that is directly
     // >   under directory "foo".
     // Notice that the '*'s have been replaced as '\\*'
-    /^\^*\\\*\\\*\\\//,
+    /^\^*(?:\\\*\\\*\\\/)+/,
 
     // '**/foo' <-> 'foo'
     () => '^(?:.*\\/)?'
diff --git a/test/fixtures/cases.js b/test/fixtures/cases.js
index 237fbc1..9f391d2 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/cases.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/cases.js
@@ -870,6 +870,18 @@ const cases = [
     }
   ],
 
+  [
+    'consecutive leading "**/" behave as a single "**/"',
+    [
+      '**/**/foo'
+    ],
+    {
+      'foo': 1,
+      'a/foo': 1,
+      'a/b/foo': 1
+    }
+  ],
+
   [
     '"**/foo/bar" matches file or directory "bar" anywhere that is directly under directory "foo"',
     [