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Therianthropy may refer to: Human-animal shapeshifting in mythology, folklore, and fiction Clinical lycanthropy , a psychiatric delusion of transforming into an animal
The word nagual derives from the Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi], an indigenous religious practitioner, identified by the Spanish as a 'magician'.. In English, the word is often translated as "transforming witch," but translations without negative connotations include "transforming trickster," "shape shifter," "pure spirit," or "pure being."
Therian may refer to: . In taxonomy, a member of the mammalian subclass Theria, consisting of marsupial and placental mammals; Therianthropy (disambiguation), the mythological ability or affliction of individuals to metamorphose into animals or hybrids by means of shapeshifting
Ailuranthropy comes from the Greek root words ailouros meaning "cat", [1] and anthropos, meaning "human" [2] and refers to human/feline transformations, or to other beings that combine feline and human characteristics.
It is also similar to the term therianthropy; which is the ability to shape shift into animal form, [3] except that with zoomorphism the animal form is applied to a physical object. It means to attribute animal forms or animal characteristics to other animals, or things other than an animal; similar to but broader than anthropomorphism .
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Therianthropes are any mythical shapeshifters that are known to (in)voluntarily transform between the forms of a human being, a non-human animal, or a human-animal hybrid.
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