transforms-human-to-seduce

Boto Encantado · salience 0.95

“In this guise he charms and seduces young women at the gathering, dancing with them and, in many tellings, disappearing with a chosen partner before reappearing alone by the water's edge; he is gone by sunrise, leaving no trace, and in some tellings any child born of such an encounter is said to be fathered by the Boto, a explanation sometimes invoked for unattributed pregnancies in river communities.”

Jorōgumo · salience 0.95

“In most tellings, a Jorōgumo is a spider of great age, sometimes several hundred years old, that gains the power to take the form of a beautiful woman.”

Mo'o · salience 0.7

“Mo'o are frequently described as shapeshifters, able to take human form, most often appearing as a strikingly beautiful woman, and in many accounts this human guise is how they interact with, test, or occasionally marry or seduce human men.”

Incubus

“church writers of the period frequently discussed the incubus as a species of fallen angel or demon whose lust for human women led it to take physical, if illusory, form.”