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Mythical beings and creatures with the ability to change their bodies. This may either be a power they can freely activate at will, or a curse which forces them to change involuntarily. Subcategories
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1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
In the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago the Lagahoo or Lugarhou is a mythical shapeshifting monster. It is cousin to the French and the Germanic werewolf.. It seems like a normal human by day, but this creature takes on the form of a man with no head, who roams the night with a wooden coffin on its neck.
Maintained to separate fiction - While some may argue that the category of Fictional Shapeshifters is superfluous, this category is maintained to separate shapeshifters appearing in works of fiction (i.e. characters created by a specific author in specific work) and those from legend, mythology or folklore (for instance, the trickster gods of various mythologies).
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Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant; Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards; Pardalokampoi – Fish-tailed leopard; Patagon (Medieval folklore) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia