Anthropomorphic Animals: Bastet, Black Beauty, Brushfire (Game), Deer Woman, Dogfaces (Comics), Funny Animal, Goat People, Homo Homini Lupus, J

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Bastet, Black Beauty, Brushfire (game), Deer Woman, Dogfaces (comics), Funny animal, Goat people, Homo homini lupus, Junglies, Kigurumi, Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel, List of avian humanoids, List of piscine and amphibian humanoids, List of reptilian humanoids, Lycanthropy, Minotaur, Satyress, Scorpion man, Therianthropy, The Goat Girl. Excerpt: Therianthropy refers to the metamorphosis of humans into animals. Therianthropes are said to change forms via shapeshifting. Therianthropes have long existed in mythology, appearing in ancient cave drawings such as the Sorcerer at Les Trois Freres. The term therianthropy comes from the Greek therion,, meaning "wild animal" or "beast" (impliedly mammalian), and anthr pos,, meaning "human being." It was used to refer to animal transformation folklore of Asia and Europe as early as 1901. Sometimes, "zoanthropy" is used instead of "therianthropy." Therianthropy was also used to describe spiritual belief in animal transformation in 1915 and one source raises the possibility the term may have been used in the 16th century in criminal trials of suspected werewolves. Shapeshifting refers to the alteration of physical appearance, in this case, from human to animal. Lycanthropy, the transformation into a wolf, is the best known form of therianthropy, followed by cynanthropy, or transformation into a dog, and ailuranthropy, or transformation into a cat. Werehyenas are present in the stories of several African and Eurasian cultures, while wererats are rare in historical legends, but have become common in modern fiction. In folklore, mythology and anthropology, the most commonly known form of therianthropy is lycanthropy. The werewolf is generally held as a European character, although its lore spread through the world in later times. Ancient Turkic legends from Asia talk of shapeshifting shamans known as "Kurtadams" which translates directly to "wolfman." The idea of being descendants from wolves has been a part of Turkic shamanist beliefs. Shape-shifters, similar to werewolves, are common in tales from all over the world. Although the definition specifically describes a metamorphic change from human to canine form (as with a werewolf), the term is often used to refer to any human to nonhuman animal transformation. The Greeks also spoke of cynanthropy (Kynior, d