age anomaly
(age change effect) When people suddenly appear to have changed ages.
12/2001: "I went to see LOTR part 1 last night. There was this really hot chick sitting next to me, but like, every time I looked at her, she looked older or younger, like, weird.. I mean, first she was 16, then she was 30, then she was 20, then she's 30 again.... weird.. twilight zone stuff heh."

age demons
(APed) Tanya, a girl from Ghana's Eastern Region, was 14 years old when her father raped her. Tanya's family pressured her to drop the complaint, telling her that she was possessed by demons which would turn her into an adult woman at night and make her seduce her own father. When she refused, she was ejected from the home.

Alessandro di Cagliostro
(adult age stasis) 1743-1795? Self proclaimed Count, alias of Italian Adventurer and occultist Giuseppe Balsamo. He married the beautiful 14 year old Lorenza Feliciana, who aided him in his iniquities. In Germany he exhibited a miracle "elixir vitae", which gave perpetual life and never ending youth, grace and sexual vigor. They claimed to be hundreds of years old.

Beira, Queen of Winter
(age stasis, old aged) Dark Beira (Cailleach Bheara), mother of all gods in Scotland, reigned each winter. Beira did not die of old age because every spring she drank the magic waters of the Well of Youth which bubbles up in the Green Island of the West. On the first of the lengthening days of spring, Beira sat beside the Well of Youth, waiting for the dawn. If a bird drank first, or a dog barked ere she began to drink, dark old Beira would crumble into dust. As soon as Beira tasted the magic water, in silence and alone, she began to grow young again. She rose up as a beautiful girl with long hair yellow as buds of broom, cheeks red as rowan berries, and blue eyes that sparkled like the summer sea in sunshine. As each month went past, however, Beira aged quickly. She reached full womanhood in midsummer, and when autumn came on her brows wrinkled and her beauty began to fade. When the season of winter returned once again, she became an old and withered hag, and began to reign again as the aged but fierce Queen Beira, fearsome to look upon. She imprisoned Bride, the youthful goddess of spring and growth.
Once a year, when the night on which she was transformed comes round, Ness (Nessa) arises out of the river in her girl form, and sings a sad sweet song in the pale moonlight.

biokinesis
(age stasis, AR, AP) AKA biokenisis. The use of kinetic energy to rearrange, or control genes inside the body. Shape-shifting, therianthropy. When age changes are involved, biokinesis can be related to time manipulation AKA chronokenisis, the ability to control time or the perception of time.

body elongation
- (apparent adult size increase) "Lemp Mansion" - Listed as one of St. Louis's most haunted places by "Spirits of St. Louis" group. One of the tour participants was standing in the doorway in front of the light. Suddenly she started to grow taller, and then something moved out from the side. It was a shadow person. (Louisville Ghost Hunters Society, "Stories From Beyond")

body elongation
- (height growth) Prayer miracle, c2009. God causes little girl to grow 1 metric mm taller - screencaps - video link

body elongation
- (TF growth miracle) - A short girl was made to increase slightly in height through the power of prayer inside a darkened room.
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body elongation
- Sudden height increase.
- (male adult growth) D. D. Home would elongate, standing against a wall, while one man held his feet, another his waist, and another watched his face. Home's height would then increase from 5'10" to 6'6", both heights being marked on the wall. Physicist William Crookes' report, which appeared in the "Quarterly Journal of Science" in July 1871, was entirely favorable.
- (preteen growth spurt) A young girl is made to grow several inches taller through divine intervention. vid link - screencaps

Book of Exodus
(AA legend) 6th century BC. When the escaped Hebrew slaves were lost in the desert for 40 years, the children's clothes grew with them.

Caer Ibormeith
(TF) Irish Legend of a beautiful swan maiden. Called "a powerful, many-shaped girl" because of her ability to change her shape. She spent a year in human form and alternate years in the form of a swan.

Child of Hale
(male CB) John Middleton (1578-1623), the Child of Hale, was 9ft 3in tall. He was said to have been bewitched after falling asleep on the sands one evening, and awoke to find he had burst out of his clothes. link

child of the woods
(preteen size increase) Appalachian story about a ghost in the woods that looks like a small child who asks you to carry it on your back to safety. As you carry it, it'll start getting heavier and heavier with each step. And if you look back over your shoulder... well, apparently nobody's lived to say what exactly they saw.

Clarence E. Willard
- (male adult height/size increases) 1882-1962.
Billed as the "Man Who Grows", he was one of "Ripley's Strange People in Person", who appeared at Odditoriums. "A man who grew before your eyes, who could stretch out and add 6 inches to his height."

concept of Abiku
(incarnation cycle, age stasis, APed) Yoruba, West Africa. Spirit child enters and exits life at will, refusing to grow up. At the appropriate time, the Abiku infant lies on the bed beside the mother, and is suddenly transformed into a grown-up man or woman.
books
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe (Okonkwo's daughter, Ezinma).
The Famished Road Ben Okri.
The Icarus Girl Helen Oyeyemi.
Beloved Toni Morrison.

Craterus
(male AP) 3rd Century Legend. Brother of King Antigonus of Macedonia. Phlegon says that Craterus experienced infancy, youth, marriage, fatherhood, and dotage before he attained his 8th birthday.

David Hathaway
(growth legend) No 40 Summer 2006. I will never forget one girl in Australia: 25 years old, her spine deformed, so ashamed she would not come for prayer. I went to her, reached out my hand, and instantly God healed her. She grew 4 inches in height! So great was the miracle and she was now so radiant, the next night she was greeting everyone at the door! A young reporter asked me how such things could happen.

Duala Fables
(AP BEd) Book "snippet view", access disabled by search engines: "...But when they took the girl out, they were astonished at her appearance; because when the girl was stolen, she had no breasts yet, she was still a child. But when the father took her out of the bag, the breasts were fallen. ..."

Encyclopedia of Occultism
(unknown AR/AP) Lewis Spence. (Jeffr_2bya)

Endymion
(male adult age stasis) Greek myth. Eos' sister Selene, the moon, fell in love with a mortal, and carefully asked Zeus to freeze Endymion just as he was at that moment - so she had an ever-sleeping eternal Bishounen for company.

Estanatlehi
- (APed, adult age forms, OA) Sky goddess, wife of the sun, most respected goddess of the Navaho.
- She grew into a full-grown woman within 18 days of couple taking her to her new home.
- She progresses through age to age to become an old woman, then turns into a young woman again. She passes through an endless stream of lives, always changing but never dying.

Fasting girls
(body control) Victorian term for usually preadolescent females claimed to survive indefinitely without consuming any food or other nourishment. Fasting girls also claimed to have special religious and/or magical powers. The ability was attributed to some saints during the Middle Ages, including St. Catherine and Liduine of Schiedam. Numerous cases were reported during the Victorian era, regarded by believers as miraculous. Sarah Jacob, the "Welsh fasting girl," claimed not to have eaten any food at all after the age of 12.

ghost AP/AR
(age forms) I found time to meditate again last night and met one of my guides....a young girl dressed in white like a 1st communion dress, long curly dark hair, and brown eyes. I asked "can a young girl be my guide?" She tilted her head and laughed. Then she morphed into a grown woman briefly, then back into the young girl. I think my guide was showing me that no, she's not really a young girl, but that's just how we prefer her to appear... (Daughtie)

ghost AR/AP
(posthumous age shifts) Spectral entities are sometimes reported to change apparent ages.
"My mom lost her life-force at age 89 in 1992. The next morning I awoke, and my mom was still there. She said, "Son, do you have any idea how beautiful death is?" It took me a minute, but I noticed that she looked much younger and seemed to have a strong, healthy glow around her. It seemed that each minute that went by on that first day after her death, she kept getting happier and happier. Also, she really seemed to be growing younger and younger. By the end of that first day, she looked about 45 and had the energy to match.
The morning of the second day, she looked and acted as though she were about 30 years old. She was so beautiful, and simply glowing with excitement about life - or should I say, death. She said to me first, "How do you like me at this age? Do you think I look good?"
Naturally, my heart opened, and I told her that she was gorgeous. She said that she decided that she didn't like being old and was making herself younger.
As I awoke on the fourth day, my mom had been sitting on the edge of my bed, and she appeared about twelve years old. I remember being startled. I knew it was my mom, but it seemed so strange to see her as a child. I said to her, "What are you doing? This is ridiculous!"
She said, "I agree with you, twelve is too young." And so over the next two or three hours she stopped getting younger and began to grow older. She quit when she reached about eighteen years old.
Mom said, "Look at me. This is perfect. I loooove this age." She was absolutely beautiful and sexy. I had never thought of my mom in this way before. It was as though her life was just beginning. And in a very real manner, it was. I knew that she was about to be born in another world." (Drunvalo)

ghost baby
(infant size increase TF) Japanese Yokai takes the form of an abandoned baby crying on the roadside. If some poor fool actually picks it up, it suddenly grows huge, crushing them to death under its bulk.

Giong
(male AP) Vietnam. Legend of a 3 year old boy who is believed to have grown up suddenly to defeat Chinese invaders in the 10th Century BC. His mother prepared large jars of rice which he ate until the house was barren of food. As he ate he grew, and as he grew the neighbors brought jar after jar of rice and much fruit, meat, and vegetables to help him grow even more. The villagers brought woven cloth and fashioned garments, but he grew so fast that they burst, and they had to enlarge them again and again. He used a suit of iron armor and an iron helmet fit for a warrior 10 truong tall.

Gospel of Judas, The
(male AR legend) 4th century. According to National Geographic Channel, Jesus occasionally appeared as a boy to his apostles.

GospelGoodNews.com
- (growth TF) Finally, I laid my hands on her and I commanded the foot to become normal and the leg to grow, and suddenly, right before my eyes, her foot became normal, her leg grew 5 inches and her spine became straight. Totally healed!

Havasupais
(AP) The Havasupais of the Havasu Canyon have a legend that they are descended from the daughter of Tochopa, who was fastened inside a hollow tree. After floating in a log for many days - so long that she grew from a girl into a woman - the log settled near a junction of the Little Colorado. Soon she felt the desire for maternity.

hiccups
(growth spurts) Every time you hiccup it means that you are growing.

Hina Matsuri
Japanese "Dolls' Festival" on March 3rd celebrates girls' growth and good health.

Hinduism
(male AP, male growth) "Dasha Avatar" Vamana: The dwarf Incarnation. In Vedic history, Lord Vishnu descends to our world in the form of 10 Avatars when his presence is needed.
In some tellings, Vishnu was born to Aditi and Sage Kashypa. Shortly after the birth, they were amazed to see the little baby suddenly grow up to the form of a short-statured Brahman. Vamana requested three steps of land from King Mahabali. To everybody's surprise Vamana began to grow and grow. All present were astounded to see the whole creation of his body. With his first stride he covered the earth, and with his second stride he covered the heavens.

I used to believe
- (AP accelerated growth)
- When I was little, I used to believe that one day you just woke up and were a grown-up! (Katie)
- I used to think that on your birthday you'd suddenly grow taller. I couldn't grasp that you grew gradually...
- I used to believe that the morning I woke up for college we'd have to buy me all new clothes because then I would be an adult and wouldn't be able to fit into child's clothes anymore. (Kiana)
- beliefs about getting older--2

Indigo Children
(X-mutation) AKA Crystal, Rainbow, Star Children; Starseed; Blues. Children who are believed to represent a higher state of human evolution. Powers include empathy, cognition, electrical disruption, weather modification etc. May have both human and extraterrestrial origin from reproductive material, genetic engineering, biomedical technology, or telepathic consciousness. Many feel they've arrived to heal the earth and change the world.

Kaguya-hime
Story from 11th-century "Tale of Genji". Long ago, there lived an old bamboo cutter who found a little girl. He took the girl home, and he and his wife raised her. After only 3 months, the girl had grown into a beautiful maiden.

Kammapa
(male AP) Bantu legend. AKA Khodumodumo, Khodumodurno, the swallowing monster. Amorphous being eats those who enter his realm, leaving the earth empty. A small male child hides in the ash. Magically made into an adult in a short time, he cuts the monster's belly, and restores the universe's form.

Kamoro
(male AP) Tribe of south Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, pop. 15,000. Ancestral carvings show komodo dragons eating humans in re-birth/creation myths prominent in initiation rituals, involving stories of boys who die and resurrect as men. Boy is devoured and re-emerges from the body of the monster as an adult.

Kintalen Changeling, The
(male AP TF) James MacDougall, "Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English", 1910.
A woman in Kintalen had a male-child with neither the growth nor the bloom of other children his age. From morning to evening he would not cease one minute from crying, and he would eat far more food than was natural for the like of him. The tailor told the mistress of the house that her child was nothing but a changeling. He then told her to throw him out into the Loch. As soon as the nasty little elf touched the water, he became a big grey-haired old man, and swam to the other side of the bay. She returned home, and found her own child at the door before her, hale and sound.

Kwakiutl Culture as Reflected in Mythology
(ARed APed legends) Franz Boas 1935 book. Page 100: A grown up man transforms himself into a child. A girl that appears to be an infant is transformed into a full grown woman when sprinkled with urine.

Makka Indians
- (growth) "Folk literature of the Makka Indians", 1991. The little girl went; she was still very short. She looked at the tail, saying: "This must be it." She went up to the tree where the others had hung it. She tried to reach it but could not. When she felt herself growing taller, ...

Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2
(age disguised) From the book "Cave, city, and eagle's nest" By Davíd Carrasco, Scott Sessions. 15 essays about the Aztec/Chichimeca mapa, made in 1540s Mexico.
P401: "the ancestors showed the wizards how, by moving up or down a mountain at the sacred site, they could age at will or reverse the process to embrace..."

Maryland Ghost & Spirit Association
(ghost AP legend) After a minute or so, Bill asked me what kind of spirit I sensed. I realized it was a young girl who seemed to morph into an adult then back to a child. She was motioning with her right hand to follow her to the window then she would change into a larger adult being. The girl was dressed in a light colored smock and barefoot, then she would change into a dark colored billowy dress with dress shoes and a small pillbox hat. Her facial expression was always pleasant and I was sure that it was the same person changing from child to adult. I'm positive the spirit was Bill's grandmother.

Mme. Blavatsky
(age stasis, old age to adult rejuvenation) said (in 1877) that she was 80. This seemingly wild statement she clung to, although every one who heard it pronounced it incredible. The writer, however, was only one of many who noticed great variations from time to time in her apparent age. It was not unusual for her to seem to be 60 years old. As frequently, however, she appeared no more than 35. It was impossible to say what made the difference, but that the difference actually occurred is beyond question. All discussed and studied this phenomenon without being able to understand it. Mme. Blavatsky herself declared that she made herself older or younger at will. She would not discuss the question of the potential immortality of the body, and neither affirmed nor denied that it could be attained, but she affirmed openly that she had gone far enough toward the attainment of it to make herself young whenever she chose. How it was done she never explained.

Modoc Tribe
(AP) California, Oregon. From: "Myths of the Modocs", 1912, collected by Jeremiah Curtin.
"The Bad Brother"
"Our mother has gone down in the water; I can't see her!" cried the little sister, and she fell on the ground and screamed. She cried all day, cried herself to sleep. The next morning, the brother shot an arrow into her leg. "Get up! You are a young woman now. You must go and hire somebody to sing for you, so you can dance your maturity dance. You must dance five nights without sleeping."
The girl started; with each step she took she grew a little taller. When she got to the spring, she was a young woman. She was covered with red bark. She drank water from the spring, then stood in the low grass and waited.

Mormonism
(age stasis) What happens in heaven to children who die before reaching adulthood? Joseph Fielding Smith says that those who die as children will be resurrected with bodies "the same size as it was when the child died. It will then grow after the resurrection to conform to the size of the spirit." Doctrines of Salvation, 2:56. Joseph Smith said: "But as the child dies, so shall it rise from the dead.... It will never grow: it will still be the child, in the same precise form as it appeared before it died out of its mother's arms, but possessing all the intelligence of a God. Children dwell in the mansions of glory and exercise power, but appear in the same form as when on earth,... with not one cubit added to their stature." JoD 6:10

Necklace of Harmonia
(young adult age stasis) Fabled magical necklace in Greek mythology allowed any woman wearing it to remain eternally young and beautiful, but brought great misfortune to its owners. Much-coveted amongst House of Thebes women. Described as beautifully wrought gold and jewels, in the shape of two serpents whose open mouths form a clasp. Queen Jocasta wore the legendary Necklace to retain her youth and beauty. After the death of her husband, she was able to unknowingly marry her own son, Oedipus.
(Jeffr)

Only Believe
(CB growth legend, RN) David Davenport testimony. "You guys lay your hands on these, and believe!" Each of us laid hands on the people. "Do it Lord!" As I then looked into the eyes of the woman I was praying for, I saw that her gaze was fixed upon her right leg. Her eyes began to grow. As I turned my eyes toward her right foot, all of the noise in the room was tuned-out with the exception of the sounds of this woman's leg--moving. She had removed an orthopedic shoe that had a massive compensation sole of at least five inches in thickness. I watched as her toes broke through a hole in her nylons. I could actually hear the stretching and tearing as her leg lengthened and pushed her foot through the hole in her nylons. I could hear her polyester pants making a snap and crackle sound as her leg slid through them. I literally watched as her leg grew the full length of the left leg.

Pawnee tribe
(age changing ability) Nebraska. From The Pawnee, by George Amos Dorsey. "The Small-Ants' Bundle and the Buffalo"
Young man is called to enter into cave. Young girl changes herself into woman of various ages, thus representing the phases of the moon, which she now declares herself to be.

Pichal Peri
(ageshifting, body elongation) India/Pakistan female vampire-like entity.
- Mysterious woman of darkness who exhibits enchanting appearance and whose feet point backward. A layman walking through an obsessed area in the evening encountered an alien woman in the bush. The man was lucky to escape unhurt as a driver of a passing vehicle rescued him. The guy reported that the alien woman was able to increase or decrease her biological age at will.
- Some supernatural entities have the ability to stretch their hands and feet by extra measurements lengthwise. In 1883, Indian wrestler Aziz Baksh, who was stationed in the State of Datia, encountered such a cryptic entity. The demonic being scaled the walls of a neighborhood by stretching its legs and hands lengthwise. Aziz told his family members about this incident before his death.

Power Evangelism Ministries
(growth legends) Oklahoma. I was in three different churches preaching and demonstrating Gods power. A short lady grew and increased by half an inch.
Kenya, Africa. A lady by the name of Jane grew by 5 inches. A short woman out grew her shoes as gold dust fell in the service.

Raelians
(AP) UFO & cloning religion. Claude Vorilhon, known as Rael to his followers, said that within 25 years, group scientists may develop technology to create a full-grown human clone in just hours and the mind of the cloned adult would receive instant knowledge via the "uploading" of information directly from the brain of another person.
"It's a very beautiful step, but it's just a step," Vorilhon, 56, said, alluding to the alleged cloning of "Eve." "The next step that will be discovered soon is what we call accelerated growth process to accelerate cellular multiplication. So, instead of needing 9 months, then 18 years to make an adult, with a special technology you can have an adult clone copy of yourself in a few hours. This adult copy is just a blank tape, empty of memory and personality, just what you call hardware."

reality shift
(unseen retroactive AA child growth) A sudden change in reality. Usually, does not involve change in physical state of children.
"Raina had no children, but wanted them. Her distress was such that she left groups we were in. On a Saturday, "Raina" said both her 11 year old and 3 year old were fine. I said that I had been strongly under the impression that she had no children. "Nope," she said, explaining that she had the 2 when she wanted them with no problems, and added, "You must be thinking of someone else." Another friend said she also remembered "Raina" as childless and desperate. Marta says she even thought she had a record in her journal. Several other people have since confirmed having memories of "Raina" as childless."

reptilians
(TF) AKA "Reptoids". Reports of adults and children suddenly transforming into beings of similar size with reptilian features.

Rupananda
(old age dream sequence) The Buddha's stepsister was very beautiful. She thought he would scold her for her beauty. The Buddha knew Rupananda was very attached to her body, so he created a vision of a female form (visible only to Rupananda) to sit near him. The girl was very young and extremely beautiful. Rupananda realized that compared to this girl she looked like a monkey. While she was looking, the girl began to grow older. She became a young woman, then a grown up woman, middle aged, old - and finally she became a very old woman. Rupananda realized that the change of the body is a continuing process, and she found out that this beautiful young girl changed into an old ugly woman. Then the woman on stage, no longer able to control her body, was lying there, dying and finally she died. Her body got swollen and worms were all over it. Rupananda thus realized beauty is impermanent, and attained Arahantship.

Samsara
- (male AA FF) Buddhist cycles of birth, death, and rebirth - male

Scientology
- (adult rejuvenation, male AP)
- A thetan "mocking up" mental images in the body can increase or decrease the body mass by as much as thirty pounds.
- "He spent something like ten thousand lives in Arslycus, and all he did was the same job over and over... When he died they could bring him back and put him in another body... They grew the body very rapidly and they put him back on the same job."
- "Scientology: 8-8008" 1952. "With this book, the ability to make one's body old or young at will, the ability to heal the ill without physical contact, the ability to cure the insane and the incapacitated, is set forth for the physician, the layman, the mathematician and the physicist."
- "Our layout artist made up a prank magazine ad about how the R6 course enlarged breasts, complete with before and after pictures ... we used to hand it to unsuspecting students and staff members and tell them to look at the exciting new ad from St. Hill."
- OT1 drills: Note several large and small female bodies until you have a cognition.
- Right after Clear I hit a keyed out OT state and could change my body size about 1 to 1 1/2 inches in height by actual measurement. Some people swore it was 2 to 3 inches, which it might have been, but it was 1 inch difference the time I measured. The ability was under control and I could do it at will. "Success Beyond Man's Wildest Dreams!" 12/12/1969.
- My hair... in the last three weeks it curls more than ever. Of course I am developing more all over. In the last week I noticed that my skin has smoothed out and is more like when I was twenty... about two months ago I noticed my feet seemed to be growing ... before starting on these sessions my breasts were unusually small. In fact, I wore a size 32A brassiere... I am now wearing a size 34C and from all indications will wear still larger. My breasts never really developed as they should, but now, thanks to Dianetics, I am beginning to be as nature intended.
- (adult FFed) 1

succubus
(rare old aged TF) Demon who takes on the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men, especially monks, to have sexual intercourse in dreams.

Teresita of Cabora
(sudden growth) Mexican folk saint who awoke from a coma with mystical powers, said to include the ability to change her body size and weight at will.

Theriantrophy
(TF) Werebeings. When people change forms, sometimes into animals or mythical creatures.

Ti Biag ni Lam-Ang
(male APed) Philippines, Iloko legend. His father was beheaded by an evil tribe of Igorots. When the mother gave birth, she was surprised when the baby grew up instantly. Lam-Ang avenged his father by going up the mountains himself.

time dilation
(age stasis, old age) There are numerous stories about people disappearing for years who never realize how much time has passed, because they do not age inside a fairy circle or cave. One man went into a circle and came back 300 years later. Ossian was enticed into Tir Na Nog (Land of Youth) by a beautiful Sidhe princess for 300 years. On returning to Ireland, he touched the earth and immediately turned into a feeble, blind old man.
UFO occupants appear to be in their 20s or early 30s, yet claim to be thousands of years old. It was suggested the energy fields of their machines reduce their aging.

time splicing
(flash forward APed) Person abducted by extra-terrestrials or time-traveller is put back in timeline within minutes of original departure. S/he could be several years older than expected. Hair and finger nails grow faster than normal. "I went to bed one night. The next morning, the day and date were ONE DAY AHEAD! It is a strange feeling to not really know how old you are."
(male) Valdes Controversy, 4/77: Armando Valdes with 5 members of Chilean army patrol saw objects descending from the sky. Valdes simply vanished. 15 minutes later he reappeared with about a week's growth of beard.
(male) When John Titor showed up on IRC chat in 2000, his 38-year-old self sat downstairs in the kitchen, typing away, while a 2-year-old version of himself lay sound asleep upstairs in bed. The elder Titor had been sent back in time by the U.S. Army, with a layover in the year 2000.
Doppelgangers are ghostly doubles of living people, and look very similar to the ghosts of the deceased. In some cases a person will come upon his own doppelganger who is typically engaged in some future activity.

Tir Na Nog
(age stasis, old age) Celtic land of youth where people don't age or get sick. Anyone who is killed is resurrected the next day. In some stories, people go to a land where they don't age, but then age at an accelerated rate and die when they return.

Tithonus
- (male adult OA) Aurora, Goddess of the morning, gave the most handsome man eternal life, but forgot about eternal youth, so he got older and older until he withered into a grasshopper.

Tithonus
(male adult OA) Greek myth. His lover Eos asked Zeus for immortality for him. She just forgot to ask for eternal youth as well, so he ended up an impossibly old man, still living forever.

Tiyanak
(infant size increase TF) Philippine legends of a monster made from the spirit of an unborn child. It takes the appearance of an infant to draw in unwary travelers, then reverts to its true form to kill its kind-hearted victims.

transformation
- (adult AA scene) "The Strife of Love in a Dream" - the transformation of 7 nymphs into trees near Jupiter - an early woodcut AA scene.

Travels
(real life old age, adult rejuvenation) Book by Michael Crichton. Psychic woman briefly appears to get older and younger.

Trobriand Islands
- (rebirth, reincarnation rejuvenation) New Guinea, Malinowski. When people die, their spirit takes a canoe to the island of Tuma. When the spirit gets old and wrinkled, it shrugs off its skin, and turns back into an embryo, which a spirit takes back and inserts into a woman. This is how women get pregnant.
- (rejuvenation, age stasis) From "The woman who pretended to be who she was:" about myths of self-imitation (people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them) as retold by Malinowski.
- After spiritual existence in Tuma, the nether world, the individual grows old and must rejuvenate by sloughing the skin, as humans did in primeval times. When they first came to the surface, men and women could live eternally young. They lost the faculty after an old woman in the village of Bwadela returned as a young woman to her granddaughter, who did not recognize her. She was afraid of her, and bade her be gone. The matriarch, mortified and angry, retrieved her cast off skin from the bathing place, and put it on again.

UFO abductions
(real-life AP) http://www.geohanover.com/docs/contact6.htm - "Contact" UFOs in the Gulf Breeze-Pensacola Area: Contact Since 1955.
"Inside the cylinder, there is suddenly a brilliant blue light and a hum. As the frequency gets higher, I start getting bigger. When the sound stops and the light returns to white, I'm adult sized. I don't look like me, like my current adult version, I look different but there are some similarities. Rather than the kid clothes I arrived in, I now have on coveralls. Obviously, some serious matter transformation occurred. I felt really charged, really energized. When I came out, everyone else was coming out too and everyone is different; full size adults wearing the same coverall type of clothes. The one thing I quickly notice is that everyone looks ageless. We're in different bodies but not really. It's a rearrangement of our bodies; two 4 year olds, a 15 year old, an 18 year old and someone approximately 22 or 23. All TRANSFORMED into adults. Physically PERFECT adults I might add. Our transformed selves look similar to the extra-terrestrials sitting across from us. I know for myself that I felt and acted like a totally mature adult who knew the details of what was being discussed."

Urashima Taro
(male old age) Japan. After many days of happiness in the underwater kingdom, Urashima asks to go home. The queen gives him a jewel encrusted box. Upon arriving home, he discovers that 300 years have passed. He opens the box, a white cloud is released, and he rapidly ages and dies, the box having contained his true age. Variants of this story have developed throughout Oceania.

Uxmal Ruins
(male APed) Yucatán, Mexico. The Pyramid of the Magician is named for a local legend of a dwarf who reached adulthood in 1 day and built the pyramid in 1 single night.

Varia Historia
(AR) Claudius Aelianus, c.200 CE.
The island Anostus has 2 rivers going through it: Pleasure and Grief. If you eat the fruit of the trees that grow along the river Pleasure, you will become younger and younger until you end as a newborn.
"[He who] eats some, suddenly feels his heart freed of the passions which agitated it; if he loved, he loses the memory of it. He rejuvenates per degrees, while passing by again by all the ages of his life, which he had left behind him: from the old age he returns to the 'age wall', from this one to adolescence, then to puberty; he ends up becoming a child; then he dies."
(Thomas)

Wall of Sound
(age disguise) In 1999 this music website reported that Britney Spears was actually 11 years older than popularly believed, making her 28 instead of 17. The revelation followed on the heels of a controversial cover for Rolling Stone which had shown the young Spears in a seductive pose. The Wall of Sound's report included many specific details. For instance, it alleged that Spears was actually born Belinda Sue Spearson in West Baton Rouge on August 7, 1970, and that she had attended Robert E. Lee High School. Former classmates were said to be willing to confirm Spears' true age. The hoax prompted hundreds of people to call Spears' record label inquiring about her age.

White House demon cat
(feline AP) The animal can sometimes be seen prowling in the building's basement. Years go by without a sighting, but when it does appear, national disaster is said to be imminent. Some witnesses claim the demon cat first appears as a helpless-looking kitten, which grows in size and menace the closer one gets to it.

Witch of Hannayston
(AR) Scotland. The Witch of Hannayston transformed herself into a child and into a white hare.
Source: Lowran Castle, or the Wild Boar of Curridoo: with other tales, illustrative of the superstitions, manners, and customs of Galloway. Robert Trotter, 1822.

Yoga Vasistha
- (adult rejuvenation, body changes, TG) 5th to 14th Centuries, text on Hindu philosophy - "Queen Chudala"
In some tellings, having become enlightened, she regained the full bloom of her youth. After 18 years, she decided to visit her husband in retreat, and took on the form of a young boy. Upon her return she claimed to suffer from a curse that caused her to become a young woman every night.
"I feel as if I am falling, trembling, melting. I am so ashamed as I see myself becoming a woman. Alas, my chest is sprouting breasts..."

Zoroastrianism
(age stasis, resurrection AR/AP) God told the Persian prophet Zarathushtra some 3,000 years ago that all the dead will come back to life in a 57 year process. One after another, they crawl out of their graves with brand new bodies. Everyone who died as a youth will be aged 18 forever, everyone who died as an adult will be 40 for eternity.

AP: age progression
AR: age regression
CB: clothes burst or rip
UC: undersized clothing
AA: age-appropriate clothing or clothes grow too
RN: return to normal