![]() There is the Impundulu, the Lightning Bird, common to Zulu and Xhosa legends. Beyond all else, they are rich with symbolism and imagination. ![]() The shapeshifters in the story can be heroes or monsters, they are sometimes tragic and sometimes terrifying. ![]() In his novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James brings together many different therianthropy tropes to create an interesting kaleidoscope of the real and the imagined. Therianthropy, or the changing of a human into an animal, is perhaps the most commonly known trope of the shapeshifting genre, with illustrations of such changes dating back all the way to 13,000 BC. Stories of shapeshifters have permeated literature and art from the beginning of civilization. This article relates to Black Leopard, Red Wolf ![]() The Shape-Shifting Monsters of African Lore ![]()
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