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"Softening quickly in the waters quiet depth, their wood was changed to flesh, the curving prows were metamorphosed into human heads." --Metamorphoses by Ovid, Brookes More translation


"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."--The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka

Apollo and Daphne by Antonio Pollaiuolo, one tale of transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses—he lusts after her and she escapes him by turning into a bay laurel.
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Apollo and Daphne by Antonio Pollaiuolo, one tale of transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses—he lusts after her and she escapes him by turning into a bay laurel.

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Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Some insects as well as other species undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of habitat or behaviour.

Metamorphosis as a trope

shapeshifting

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