Although the werewolf is the best known animal transformation figure in popular western culture, the plots of several novels in the fantasy and mythic fiction fields revolve around other kinds of therianthropic characters . " Swim the Moon ", by Paul Brandon, is set in contemporary Australia and explores Scottish selkie legends . " The Antelope Wife ", by Louise Erdrich, set in modern-day Minnesota, draws on Ojibwe myths of women who can shift between human and antelope shape . " The Fox Woman ", by Kij Johnson, set in historic Japan, re-tells a kitsune legend in novel form . " Coyote Blue ", by Christopher Moore, is a contemporary comic novel about a Native American trickster who can shift between human and coyote forms . " Hannah's Garden ", by Midori Snyder, set in the rural American Midwest, draws on Anglo-Irish legends of shape-changing hares to tell a story about death, family dynamics, and the power of creativity . " The Wood Wife ", by Terri Windling, set in Tucson, Arizona, and most of the novels of Charles de Lint, set in Canada, blend the shape-shifting legends of European folklore, the therianthropic lore of tricksters and shamans, and animal-human hybrid characters drawn from various Native American mythologies.
