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Aswang: bracket term for shape-shifting creatures that have a variety of forms, such as the blood-sucking vampire, the self-segmenting viscera sucker, the man-eating weredog, the vindictive or evil-eye witch, and the carrion-eating ghoul. [1] Duwende: bracket term for small magical beings of the land. [2]
Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
Kihawahine is a Hawaiian shapeshifting lizard goddess . When Kihawahine Mokuhinia Kalama‘ula Kalā‘aiheana, the daughter of the powerful sixteenth-century ruling chief of Māui , Piʻilani , and his wife Lā‘ieloheloheikawai, died, her bones were deified, transforming her into the goddess. [ 2 ]
Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting evil creatures in Filipino folklore, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and transforming human-beast hybrids (usually dogs, cats, pigs).
Rakshasas were most often depicted as shape-shifting, fierce-looking, enormous monstrous-looking creatures, with two fangs protruding from the top of the mouth and having sharp, claw-like fingernails.
One of the legends about Moʻo is that Pele is the volcano goddess who sends her little sister, Hiʻiaka, to rescue a mortal lover. “As Hiʻiaka travels island to island, she encounters many moʻo. On the windward cliffs of Molokaʻi, the young goddess and her attendant Wahineʻomaʻo come to an impassable ravine.
Gods and goddesses associated with deception, disguise, illusion and shapeshifting. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ...
Empusa or Empousa (/ ɛ m ˈ p j uː s ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔμπουσα; plural: Ἔμπουσαι Empusai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. [2]