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Bakeneko and Nekomata (cat) Boto Encantado (river dolphin) Itachi (weasel or marten) Jorōgumo and Tsuchigumo (spider) Kitsune, Huli Jing, hồ ly tinh and Kumiho (fox) Kawauso (river otter) Kushtaka (otter) Lady White Snake, Ichchhadhari Nag and Yuxa (snake) Pipa Jing (jade pipa) Selkie (seal) Tanuki (racoon dog) Mujina (badger) Toyotama-hime ...
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 ...
They might also possess living animals or people and walk around in their bodies. [5] [6] [7] Skin-walkers may be male or female. [2] Skin-walker stories told among Navajo children may be complete life and death struggles that end in either skin-walker or Navajo killing the other, or partial encounter stories that end in a stalemate. [2]
Many other animals appear as yōkai in old tales and display similar attributes: the deep tenacity of snakes, the ability of foxes to shapeshift into women, and the brutality of bake-danuki in eating humans depicted in the Kachi-kachi Yama folktale from the Edo period. However, cats figure in a great number of tales and superstitions because ...
Canaima- (Mexico) term for a sort of were-jaguar. May be related to skinwalkers. Cat-sìth (Celtic mythology) – spectral cat that haunts the Scottish Highlands; Cath Palug – a monstrous cat said to have killed 180 warriors; Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a cat with a luminescent chin [4]
‘This was as primal as it gets,’ a biologist who studied the creatures said
Image credits: micmac2869 Dogs can start acting like cats because they are highly impressionable. If the pooch has spent more time around felines than their own species, there’s a high chance ...
Skin-walker – (Navajo) Type of witch with ability to disguise themselves as an animal or turn into one. Squawkowtemus – (Abenaki) Female spirit that resides in swamps. Its cries lure people close. If it touches them, they die. Stick Indians – (Pacific Northwest) monsters who materialize from out of the roots of trees and bushes and attack ...