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Shapeshifting

           

  



 


The transformation (mentally or physically) of one's self into an animal.


Depending on animals for food and fur for warmth, primitive man knew that his destiny was linked with that of the beasts. His almost religious fascination with the creatures he hunted is evidenced by cave drawings found as far apart as France and Australia.

   
         

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Many early civilizations revered animals as the incarnation of gods; in ancient Egypt, for example, both the cobra and the cat were objects of worship. It is not surprising that stories of humans turning into beasts, has become deeply ingrained in the popular imagination.

   
       

 
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Often such metamorphoses are associated with fear and terror. In central and eastern Europe, for example, a belief in the bloodsucking vampire that condemns its victims to a living death has persisted into the 20th century. And in West Africa until recently, members of a secret society called the Leopard Men believed that simply wearing the leopard's distinctive spotted skin would magically imbue them with that animal's fearsome strength.

   
            

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Belief in wer (or man) animals was common in the Middle Ages, and was probably a relic from early cannibalism. In 16th century France the superstition regarding werewolves seems to have been widespread and prevalent, as evidenced by the numerous trials in which it was shown clearly murder and cannibalism, all attributed to lycanthropy. This belief is now all but extinct.

   
            

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Monsters: A Bestiary of Devils, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Magical Creatures.

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Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast.

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Shape Shifters; Shaman Women in Contemporary Society.

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The Werewolf of Paris.

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The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten.

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Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies: Compendium Monstrum.

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Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shapeshifting Beings.

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Werewolf: The Dark Ages.

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Werewolves.

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Werewolves (Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena).

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Werewolves: A Field Guide to Shapeshifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts.

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Werewolves: An Illustrated Journal of Transformation.

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Werewolves: The Occult Truth.

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Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within.

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Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts.

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Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages.

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Wolf-Hunting in France in the Reign of Louis XV: The Beast of the Gevaudan.

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-- Lycanthropy.
-- Shapeshifting.
-- Shape-shifting: the Animal Powers of the Sorcerer.
-- Werewolf.
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