I want to know a little more about shapeshifters?

Question

I want to know a little more about shapeshifters?

Answer 1

native american medicine men were known to shape shift when the settlers arrived. word was sent back over the ocean though,and it was deemed,devilry,and most ceramonies were outlawed.

even the sweat lodge until 1969,here in bc canada..

Answer 2

Check out videos on YouTube by David Ike - especially stuff related to reptilians....

a little out there but he touches on that....

Answer 3

if you rub the wand in my pants it will mysteriously grow

Answer 4

Let me know what you find out.

Answer 5

what do you want to know about them? i know everything about shape shifters, werewolves, vampires, witches, wizards, i am really into that sort of thing.... ask me anything!!!!

and your question made my day....

my sister was laughing so hard at me she started crying...

see when i saw your question i started jumping up and down on my chair and i was like ooo ooo ooo ooo omg omg wow wow, and my sister asked me what was wrong, and i screeched " SOMEONE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT SHAPE SHIFTERS YAY!!!!" she just laughed and told me i was crazy and to write you... so i did....

what do you want to know???

Answer 6

they turn to patatos when they want to be tamatos  

Answer 7

They shift shapes.

Answer 8

Do a google search...  or a WikiSearch...

Answer 9

LIKE FROM HARRY POTTER?!

Answer 10

Shapeshifting is a common theme in folklore, as well as in science fiction and fantasy. In its broadest sense, it is a change in the physical form or shape of a person or animal. Other terms include metamorphosis, morphing, transformation, or transmogrification.

There is no settled agreement on the terminology.

Shapeshifting is distinguished from natural processes such as aging or metamorphosis (despite shared use of the term), the body contortions of animals such as the Mimic Octopus, and illusory changes. Instead, shapeshifting involves physical changes such as alterations of age, gender, race, or general appearance or changes between human form and that of an animal, plant, or inanimate object

.Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), the fox spirits East Asia (including the Japanese kitsune), and the gods, goddesses, and demons of numerous mythologies, such as the Norse Loki or the Greek Proteus. It was also common for deities to transform mortals into animals and plants.

Although shapeshifting to the form of a wolf is specifically known as lycanthropy, and such creatures who undergo such change are called lycanthropes, those terms have also been used to describe any human-animal transformations and the creatures who undergo them. Therianthropy is the more general term for human-animal shifts, but it is rarely used in that capacity.

Other terms for shapeshifters include metamorph, skin-walker, mimic, and therianthrope. The prefix "were-," coming from the Old English word for "man" (masculine rather than generic), is also used to designate shapeshifters; despite its root, it is used to indicate female shapeshifters as well.

Almost every culture around the world has some type of transformation myth, and almost every commonly found animal (and some not-so-common ones) probably has a shapeshifting myth attached to them. Usually, the animal involved in the transformation is indigenous to or prevalent in the area from which the story derives. While the popular idea of a shapeshifter is of a human being who turns into something else, there are numerous stories about animals that can transform themselves as w

*Shapeshifting can be a rich symbolical and narrative tool. Today, the theme appears in many fantasy, science fiction and horror stories; some would even recognize a distinct subgenre of shapeshifting or transformation fiction, with its own genre conventions. Fantasy and science fiction occasionally feature races or species of shapeshifters, and both magic and technology can be used to impose a change in form. Some of the more popular themes include werewolves, vampires, and age regression. In a broader sense, the term includes stories about characters who shrink or grow in size without changing their form.

Transformation in this regard is physical, as opposed to the character development common to many stories, even with no fantastic element, which typically involves characters changing mentally, psychologically or spiritually.

Two episodes of the television show Supernatural (Episode 6, Season 1 "Skin" & Episode 12, Season 2 "Nightshifter") deal with the shapeshifter lore.

Dozens of episodes of the hit science-fiction TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine featured shapeshifters known as The Founders, also referred to informally as Changelings (Star Trek) who were the leaders of The Dominion (Star Trek). The most popular one was Odo (Star Trek). Star Trek 6 featured a chameloid, another species of shapeshifter, by the name of Martia. Earlier in Star Trek The Original Series, a shapeshifter named Garth was one of the characters in an episode titled Whom Gods Destroy (TOS episode).

Jack Finney's novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the various movies it inspired use the shapeshifting motif as a means of exploring contemporary anxiety and paranoia, particularly fear of totalitarian manipulation of free will and the elimination of human emotion.

In the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, the Quileute Werewolves are proven to actually be shapeshifters during the second book, New Moon.

Full details can be found at   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifti...

'Cool question- shapeshifting has always fascinated me too.

Answer 11

They say President Bush is one. Bahaha... no seriously, google it.  

Answer 12

i am one of them