Shapeshifting

"A glamour spell. This is how you shall appear to one and all."

- Rumplestiltskin to Emma and Hook

Shapeshifting is a magical ability featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the second episode of the first season.

Known Ways to Shapeshift
A glamour is an illusion, and only affects the perception of people who see the glamoured person or object, as opposed to changing its actual form. Transfiguration, on the other hand, is a complete shape-shift, where the person physically transform into another being or form.

Ways to shapeshift


 * Anti-Transformation Powder
 * De-cloaking Potion (reverses the effects of a glamour spell)
 * Fairy Magic
 * Fairy Dust
 * Dark Fairy Dust (to insects)
 * Flying Monkey's bite (human to Flying Monkey)
 * Glamour Spell
 * Dr. Jekyll's Serum (into one's evil self)
 * Maleficent, Lily and the Dragon's ability (human to dragon and back)
 * Sea Bracelets (mermaid to human and back)


 * Shadow ability
 * Shapeshifting Spell
 * Siren ability
 * Six-Leaf Clover's glamour spell
 * Tear of lost love (human to tree and back)
 * Transformation Potions
 * Spell of Mor'du (human to bear)
 * Werewolf ability (human to wolf and back)

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * According to Rumplestiltskin, it takes months to learn a glamour spell.
 * A glamour spell affects the whole body of the user, including its heart.
 * A de-cloaking potion can reverse the effects of a glamour spell.


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Production Notes

 * The way glamour spells are depicted on screen varies according to what the writers want to show.


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Other Notes

 * In magic lore, a glamour is a spell cast on somebody to make them see something the spell-caster wishes them to see, when in fact they are not what they seem to be. Shapeshifting, on the other hand, is a common theme in mythology, folklore and fantasy fiction, which refers to the ability to physically transform into another being or form.