Size change in fiction

[2] In the Liezi, the giants of the Longbo Kingdom were shrunk over time as punishment by the heavenly emperor after their burning of the bones of the ao caused the Daiyu and Yuanjiao islands to sink, forcing billions of xian to evacuate their homes.

[14][15][16] The tenth book and thirteenth chapter of the Devi Bhagavata Purana mentions a battle between the devas and the daitya Arunasura, during which the goddess Bhramari grew to a massive size and began to summon bees and various other insects from her hands.

[21][22] A similar story is told about the Cumaean Sibyl in Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which her wish for longevity results in her aging body gradually shrinking, causing her to become small enough to be kept in a jar.

[26] In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong wields a staff called the Ruyi Jingu Bang which he can command to shrink down to the size of a needle or expand to gigantic proportions.

[citation needed] In one story narrated in the Norske Folkeeventyr, a tiny character called Doll i' the Grass accidentally falls into a body of water and ends up normal-sized when she is brought out by a merman.

One of the earliest lengthy depictions of size change in popular printed fiction was the 1890 adventure/science-fiction novel by Polish scientific researcher and author Erazm Majewski, Doktor Muchołapski.

Size alteration was also a common motif of many films directed by Bert I. Gordon, including Beginning of the End, The Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Puppet People, Village of the Giants, and an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods.