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Transmogrifying is changing a living thing into a different kind of thing.
Willow Rosenberg.[src]
Super buffy turns missile into doves primeval

Buffy transmogrifies a missile into doves

Transmogrification was a form of magic that involved transforming another person's or object's shape into another form of matter. It was different from glamours in that the latter were merely illusions. Shapeshifting was the term employed for the ability of a being changing his or her own shape, whether by nature or by using magic.

Examples

  • The witch Amy Madison turned Buffy into a rat by calling on the goddess Hecate.[1]
  • When Willow, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles and Buffy became one being with the enjoining spell, Willow used her magic to make one of Adam's projectiles into three separate doves.[2]
  • Aud turned her boyfriend Olaf into a troll after he cheated on her.[3]
  • During Halloween in 1997, Ethan Rayne invoked the god Janus to curse the costumes at his shop. This caused anyone wearing them to become what the costume was. This included changing their species and inducing specific mind-sets.[4]
  • A group of fratboys called upon the demon Gachnar during a Halloween frat party. This caused "matter and reality distortion", including the transmorgrification of several objects into living things such as a plastic spider into a real one.[5]
  • The bar owner Jack turned a group of UC Sunnydale students, including Buffy, into neanderthals by selling them the enchanted Black Frost.[6]
  • Ethan Rayne used a spell to turn Rupert Giles into a Fyarl Demon.[7]
  • A group of monks turned the Key into a human: Dawn Summers.[8]
  • Glorificus used the Sobekian transmogrification spell to turn a corba into a demon.[9]
  • Anyanka turned the playboy Stewart Burns into a demon after he cheated on a woman.[10]
  • Ronnie was transformed into a Sluggoth Demon when Anya the Vengeance Demon granted Nancy's wish to turn him into a worm.[11]
  • When Angel confronted Lindsey McDonald in the Wolfram and Hart L.A. basement where he activated the failsafe, Lindsey was able to transform a small switchblade into a large medieval sword with his new powers.[12]
  • Against the Smile Time puppets, Angel and Spike were turned into puppets as well.[13][14]
  • When Willow arrived to aid Spike during his brief stint in Las Vegas, she transformed the demons who were holding him against his will into kittens.[15]
  • To travel unnoticed, Willow transformed Buffy into a fish.[16]
  • Because of a Thricewise demon, Dawn was turned into a giant[17], a centaur[18] and a doll[19].

Non Canon

  • Desdemona and her sisters like Penelope were Jaguar Warriors: a normal jaguar granted human form through Mayan rituals.

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