Shapeshifting is the faculty to bodily change yourself by a naturally supernatural skill, supernatural intervention, devilish influence, wizardry, charms, or being acquired the talent. It appears in mythology, folk-stories, and science fiction. Ancient types of mystical symbolism and shamanism, as well as the earliest known writings and legendary poetry like the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad, all contain references to shape-shifting. The idea is still used frequently in contemporary fiction, children-stories, and pop culture. Werewolves and vampires (predominantly of European, Canadian and Native American/early American ancestry), the East Asian huli jing (along with the Japanese Kitsune and Korean Kumiho), divinities, goddesses, demons & demonesses like Succubus & Incubus, and other countless belief systems, including the Norse Loki and the Greek Proteus, are all famous shapeshifting entities in folk tales. The act of changing appearance of one to take on the appearance of a grey wolf is termed as lycanthropy, and those who go through this process are regarded as lycanthropes. Although Therianthropy is a more comprehensive term, it is rarely used in that context. Deities would frequently change humans into animals or vegetation. Metamorph, the Navajo skin-walker, mimic, and therianthrope are other names for shapeshifters. The prefix Were- is also used to denote shapeshifters; notwithstanding its origin, it is also used to denote female shapeshifters. It comes from the Old English term meaning Man, which is masculine rather than general. While the common conception of a shapeshifter is a person who transforms into another, there are many tales of animals who may also change. [Information and Image Credit : Shapeshifting, Wikipedia] [Image : Tsarevna Frog (or The Frog Princess), by Viktor Vasnetsov, tells of a frog that metamorphoses into a princess.] [Image Availed Under (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)][Original Source Image URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vasnetsov_Frog_Princess.jpg ] #Mythology
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