Shapeshifting facts for kids
Shapeshifting is the act of being able to change into another being or form. The idea of shapeshifting has been around since the Middle Ages. It has been used in literature and epic poems, including works such as Peleus and Thetis and the Iliad. The trend of shapeshifting is still being done today. It is a theme in children's literature, and works of popular culture.
Images for kids
-
Louhi, Mistress of the North, attacking Väinämöinen in the form of a giant eagle with her troops on her back when she was trying to steal Sampo; in the Finnish epic poetry Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot. (The Defense of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896)
-
"The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's daughter into a white hind." by Arthur Rackham
-
Loge feigns fear as Alberich turns into a giant snake. Wotan stands in the background; illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold
-
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming
-
Vertumnus, in the form of an old woman, wooing Pomona, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.
-
The Children of Lir, transformed into swans in Irish tales
-
"Madame White Snake" Picture on long veranda in the Summer Palace, Beijing, China
-
Kuzunoha the fox woman, casting a fox shadow
-
"Svipdag transformed" by John Bauer
-
Sister Alenushka Weeping about Brother Ivanushka by Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian variant of Brother and Sister: Alenushka laments her brother's transformation into a goat.
See also
In Spanish: Metamorfosis (mitología) para niños
