I have heard of witches being able to change their own body into the body of an animal or demon, but I never heard of men Transmigrating into the bodies of animals.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
I laughed, albeit in no smiling mood; for I have been Transmigrating from one room to another, and your packet found me half tired and half excited, and whole grave.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
Each large monastery has at its head a Grand Lama, not to be confounded with the Dalai Lama of Lhassa, who is believed, or rather supposed, to have an immortal soul Transmigrating from one body into another.
"An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet"
A. Henry Savage Landor