Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

The resting place of the draugr was a tomb that served much as a workable home for the creature.

The creation of a draugr is not exactly clear, but in the Eyrbyggja saga, a shepherd is killed by a draugr and rises the next night as one himself.

A somewhat ambivalent, alternative view of the draugr is presented by the example of Gunnar in Njál's saga:

The saga is about Hrómundr serving king Óláf Warrior-King ( Óláfr konungr liði ) and Hrómund's battles with the berserker Hröngvið and as well as the undead witch-king Þráinn, a draugr ( he was a former king of Gaul, Valland ).

Another aspect of the transformations that added to the show's camp factor involved Dr. Chase's clothing during a transformation: He was depicted generally wearing a three-piece suit and tie, and the viewer would see it rip off of him as he shape-shifted into an animal, though once the transformation was complete there would be no sign of his discarded clothing.

Changeling ( as he was then known, a. k. a., " Beast Boy "), in an attempt to stop her rampage, shape-shifted into a small fly, then flew into her eye as a way to distract her.

After stealing Miss Martian's abilities, Superboy discovers him shape-shifted into a clown resulting in Parasite's cover being blown.

When asked by Maruyama about Paifu's father, Paifu replies that he was shot to death in a human city when he shape-shifted into a were-koala.

Though at first he acts a bit stiff, he is really kind at heart and finally defies his uncle while simultaneously saving his life from the enraged Daine, who had shape-shifted into a hyena.

Buldeo becomes convinced that Bagheera is Mowgli himself, shape-shifted into panther form.

They soon split into cat-like and dog-like forms ( Feliformia and Caniformia ).

Carnivora are generally divided into the suborders Feliformia ( cat-like ) and Caniformia ( dog-like ), the latter of which includes the pinnipeds.

Then, about 50 million years ago, the carnivorans split into two main divisions: caniforms ( dog-like ) and feliforms ( cat-like ).

Then the swimmer shrugs his shoulders and literally throws his arms and shoulders forward, lunging cat-like back into the water ( though the emphasis is to go forward, not down ).

In issue # 4, after a battle with Wildcat and his newly-discovered son, who is revealed to have the ability to turn into a cat-like creature at which Savage is surprised which he claims to have not been in 116 years, Savage is defeated when hit by a fire truck.

It eventually spins off into Neko Majin Z, centralizing around " Z ", a cat-like version of Son Goku complete with nyoi-bo and typically Dragon Ball Z-style attacks, such as the " Neko-Hameha ", an attack that the Neko Majin from the first chapter also used.

A strange animal with a black serpentine body and a cat-like head jumped out of the cauldron and disappeared into the lake.

Some nimravids did evolve into large toothed cat-like forms with massive flattened upper canines and accompanying mandibular flanges.

Colin ages and his mutant abilities transform his features into a more cat-like appearance.

If he touches broccoli, all the lights go out and he turns into a cat-like monster.

Chase believes that he, his friends, family, and Foodons can change the world, one at a time, even if it involves going into battle against the Glutton Gormandizers, King Gorge's Big 4, and King Gorge's female cat-like servant Clawdia.

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

*" It is better to cast oneself into a fiery furnace than publicly to put to shame one's fellow creature " ( Bava Metzia 59a ).

The creature is capable of flying but does not appear to roll into a hoop.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

The jurisdiction of a body that is a creature of statute is also therefore limited to the functional scope written into the laws that created that body.

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

If Mental Balance ever reaches + 500 /- 500, the character Awakens and either becomes a divine creature or transforms into a demon.

Grant claimed that he saw a small head attached to a long neck, and that the creature saw him and crossed the road back into the loch.

" This explanation would cover sightings of lake-monsters on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the loch upon being startled, in the manner of seals.

In other words, the kelpie of folklore has been transformed into a more realistic and contemporary notion of the creature.

Luthor is ultimately defeated when he falls into one of the Phantom Zone holes created by the creature for the remainder of the timeline.

The creature, seemingly badly wounded, was only briefly visible as it lurched into the water.

Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector — a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.

Shortly after glancing over its shoulder, the creature walks behind a grove of trees, reappears for a while after Patterson moved ten feet to a better vantage point, then fades into the trees again and is lost to view as the reel of film ran out.

Also, all versions of predestination incorporate into the doctrine various concepts of human responsibility, which differ from one another in terms of the kind of volitional freedom possible for the creature.

These amoeba then join up into a tiny multicellular slug-like coordinated creature, which crawls to an open lit place and grows into a fruiting body.

His gamble was successful as he was transformed into a creature whose body was composed of " living sound.

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope ( from the Greek:, lukos, " wolf ", and, anthrōpos, " man "), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse and / or lycanthropic affliction via a bite or scratch from a werewolf, or some other means.

* Wolfsbane-A Scottish, former New Mutant who could transform into a wolf-like creature.

The book combines Keel's account of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature called Mothman in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967 with his own theories about UFOs and various supernatural phenomena, ultimately connecting them to the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River.

When the Pfhor use a trih xeem device to send the star into early nova, the creature is released, to the horror and destruction of the Pfhor.

In his journey, Bilbo encounters other fantastic creatures, including trolls, elves, giant spiders, a man who can change shape into a bear, goblins, eagles, wolves and a slimy, murderous creature named Gollum.