In some regions, as among the Pomo and Yuki, the bear shaman was not thought as elsewhere to actually become a bear, but to remain a man who clothed himself in the skin of a bear to his complete Disguisement, and by his malevolence, rapidity, fierceness, and resistance to wounds to be capable of inflicting greater injury than a true bear.
"The Religion of the Indians of California"
A. L. Kroeber
They seem rather like figures on a Greek vase-a man and two women whom no one but myself could distinguish in their Disguisement.
"Oxford Lectures on Poetry"
Andrew Cecil Bradley
What could have been his reason for this temporary Disguisement I have never been able to discover.
"Byeways in Palestine"
James Finn