cursed-into-monstrous-form

Rokurokubi · salience 0.6

“In many stories the condition is explained as a curse or karmic consequence, sometimes tied to a broken religious precept in a past life, and it is frequently discovered only by accident, as when a husband or houseguest wakes in the night to find the sleeper's neck stretched impossibly long or the head altogether missing from the pillow.”

Xtabay · salience 0.6

“In the dominant telling, it is Utz-Colel who, unable to bear this posthumous judgment, appeals to dark or evil spirits and returns as the demon Xtabay, while Xkeban is redeemed rather than becoming the demon.”

Iara · salience 0.55

“her father, leading the tribe, then threw her into the river (often placed at the Solimões or the Meeting of the Waters) as punishment, after which she was transformed by the river's spirits into the being she becomes.”

Aswang

“Origin stories vary widely: in some tellings the condition is inherited within a bloodline and passed down through families, in others it can be transmitted by a bite, a curse, or contact with an object such as a black chick or an egg, and in still others it is acquired through a pact or ritual.”

Uktena

“some tellings describe it as a man transformed by the Little Men into the monstrous horned serpent and sent to kill the Sun, a task at which he failed”