The Magic of Shapeshifting

This article is a work in progress to be updated with the claims made in The Magic of Shapeshifting along with the citations in-book for future fact checking and follow-up.

Indistinct citations:

• 1-7 = individual anecdotes
• 14, 15, 17 = broader statements about the prevalence of sightings

Plane cosmology:

• Physical
• Etheric - mimics the physical, few inhabitants
  • Senses work similarly, more colors (eg yellow-blue is not green)
• Astral - some overlap with physical, mostly stray astral matter and nonlinear/nonphysical subplanes - many denizens
  • Hard to hear, see in all directions
• Mental - beyond 3D conceptions
• Adjacent plane (fairy realm)

Distinct claims and citations:

• Prince Baianus was a prince who regularly shapeshifted in public (cit 8)
• Constantinople was overrun by packs of (presumably anthropomorphic) werewolves in 1542 - King Süleyman II and his "Janizaries" hunted and killed at least 150 (cit 9)
• The Lithuanian Neuri and many Irish clans are hereditary shifters (cit 10, 11)
• "The Legend of the Leaping Wall" thousands of shifters (including nobles) would gather yearly at a castle between Lithuania, Livonia, and Courland (cit 12)
• Reports of non-anthro wolves breaking into Russian cellars to steal wine (cit 13)
• Dr. Gerald Kirkland saw two were-jackal in Zimbabwe 1933 (cit 16)

Stopping for now until the book comes in the mail