| One With Beasts (• • • Life or • • • • or • • • • Spirit) The Book of Crafts 26 |
| Powerful mambos and houngans assume the shape of animals, especially
serpents, dolphins, goats and owls. Sometimes the loa bestow this
form as a short-lived gift; others achieve their new bodies through their
own spirit-granted powers. A long dance and song dressed in the skin
of the animal in question brings on the change. Most Caribbeans fear
shapeshifters, and avoid one who knowingly sheds her own skin to run with
beasts. [Depending on the forms attained, this spell resembles the Life Effects Lesser Shapechange or Perfect Metamorphosis. A really lucky bokor can get a spirit to shift his body while it rides him, but this, like other channeling spells, is risky.] |