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Bak ( Assamese aqueous creature) Bakeneko (cat) Boto Encantado (river dolphin) Jorōgumo (spider) Kitsune, Huli Jing and Kumiho (fox) Kushtaka (Otter) Lady White Snake, Ichchhadhari Nag and Yuxa (snake) Myrmidons (ant) Pipa Jing (jade pipa)
Body swaps, first popularized in Western Anglophone culture by the personal identity chapter of John Locke 's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, [ 1] have been a common storytelling device in fiction media. Novels such as Vice Versa (1882) [ 2] and Freaky Friday (1972) [ 3] have inspired numerous film adaptations and retellings, as well as ...
Therianthropy. Therianthropy may refer to: Human-animal shapeshifting in mythology, folklore, and fiction. Clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric delusion of transforming into an animal.
Nagual. The Nahuals described in the Borgia Codex, metamorphic creatures capable of changing their physical form into any other animal form or even into human forms at will. In Mesoamerican folk religion, a nagual (pronounced [na'wal]) or nahual (both from the Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi]) is a human being who has the power to ...
Top half human, bottom half fish, able to control and predict the weather and travel between the human world and the underworld through water. Anishinaabeg myth refers to one trying to take a human husband, the act of bringing him to their world and going through with the marriage turning him into one of them. Sasquatch – see Bigfoot.
The film centers on a shy, obsessive comic book fan who gets injected with an experimental serum derived from spiders, which gives him minor superpowers. More horrific changes occur, slowly transforming him into a grotesque human spider hybrid. A detective begins to investigate when bodies start to pile up covered in cobwebs.
Here are a few adorable signs that your dog looks up to you in that light! 1. They Gaze into Your Eyes. In many different species across the animal kingdom, making direct eye contact is often ...
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is, a non-human animal. [ 1] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2]