List of legendary creatures

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J.F. Bertuch, Kinderbuch Fabelwesen 2, Anno 1806

This is a list of legendary creatures from various historical mythologies. Its entries include species of legendary creature and unique creatures, but not individuals of a particular species. Creatures of modern invention are not included.

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Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost

Á Bao A Qu (Malay) - Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor
Aatxe (Basque) - Evil spirit that takes the form of a bull
Abada (African) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo
Äbädä (Tatar) - Forest spirit
Abaia (Melanesian) - Huge magical eel
Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal
Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that ride ants
Abura-bō (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture
Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids
Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost
Achiyalabopa (Puebloan) - Rainbow-feathered birds
Achlis (Roman) - Curious elk
Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
Adhene (Manx) - Nature spirit
Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
Adze (Ewe people) - African vampiric forest being
Aerico (Macedonian) - Disease demon
Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
Agathodaemon (Greek) - Spirit of vinefields and grainfields
Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
Ahkiyyini (Inuit) - Animated skeleton that causes shipwrecks
Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous humanoid with eyes in its instep
Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Man-eating Ogres
Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons
Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit
Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon
Akabeko (Japanese) - Red cow involved in the construction of Enzō-ji in Yanaizu, Fukushima
Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa
Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster
Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter
Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses
Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster
Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit
Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease
Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women
Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon
Alal (Chaldean) - Demon
Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children
Al Basti (Turkish) - Female night-demon
Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver
Alicorn - Technically a unicorn's horn. In modern times is commonly misapplied to winged unicorns
Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts
Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid
Allu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Faceless demon
Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid
Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit
Aloja (Catalan) - Female water spirit
Alom-bag-winno-sis (Abenaki) - Little people and tricksters
Alp (German) - Male night-demon
Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs
Alp-luachra (Irish) - Parasitic fairy
Al Rakim (Islamic) - Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers
Alseid (Greek) - Grove nymph
Alû (Assyrian) - Leprous demon
Alux (Mayan) - Little people
Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku
Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world
Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku
Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon
Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf
Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit
Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag
Amefurashi (Japanese) - Child-like monster
Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
Amorōnagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima
Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent
Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end
Anakim (Jewish) - Giant
Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx
Angel (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) - Heavenly being, usually depicted as a winged humanoid.
Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern and a scythe.
Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture
Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground
Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep
Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children
Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki
Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit
Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon
Argus Panoptes (Greek) - Hundred-eyed giant
Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers
Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid
Arion (Greek) - Extremely swift horse with a green mane and the power of speech
Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon
Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon
Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
Asena (Turkic) - Blue-maned wolf
A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant
Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement
Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit
Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit
Ask-wee-da-eed (Abenaki) - Fire elemental and spectral fire
Asobibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Kōchi Prefecture
Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle
Asrai (English) - Water spirit
Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature
Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people
Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit
Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph
Avalerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds
Awa-hon-do (Abenaki) - Insect spirit
Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid
Ayakashi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
Ayakashi-no-ayashibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Ishikawa Prefecture
Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters
Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
Azukibabaa (Japanese) - Bean-grinding hag who devours people
Azukitogi (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides

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Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature

Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghost whale
Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon
Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal
Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Bies (Slavic) - Demon
Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - Damned bandits
Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit

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A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoids with an eight-year lifespan
Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
Carbuncle (Latin America) - A small creature with a jewel on its head
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
Changeling (European) - Non-human humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chickcharney (Bahaman) - Bird-mammal hybrid
Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savages with dog teeth
Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts of women that died in childbirth
Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Cofgod (English) - Old English term meaning "cove-god"
Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid

[edit] D

Chinese dragon, color engraving on wood, Chinese school, nineteenth century

Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
Demon - Malevolent spirit
Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
Dilong (Chinese) - Chthonic dragon
Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Dragon (Many cultures worldwide)
Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
Drude (German) - Possessing demon
Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
Dybbuk (Jewish) - A spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living.
Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag

[edit] E

"The Erlking", by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910

Each Uisge (Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Eachy (English and Scottish) - Humanoid lake monster
Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) - Leadership or guidance totem
Ebu Gogo (Flores) - Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
Edimmu (Sumerian) - Ghosts of those not buried properly
Egbere (Yoruba) - Humanoid that carries a magical mat
Einherjar (Norse) - Spirits of brave warriors
Ekek (Philippine) - Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) - Hags with awls in their elbows
Eldjötnar (Norse) - Fire giant
Eleionomae (Greek) - Marsh nymph
Elemental (Alchemy) - Personification of one of the Classical elements
‘Elepaio (Hawaiian) - Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
Elf (Germanic) - Nature and fertility spirit
Eloko (Central Africa) - Little people and malevolent nature spirits
Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) - Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
Emere (Yoruba) - Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
Emim (Jewish) - Giant
Empusa (Greek) - Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
Encantado (Brazilian) - Dolphin-human shapeshifter
Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) - Enchanted princesses
Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
Enkō (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
Er Gui (Chinese) - Hungry ghost
Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Two-horned, winged horse
Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
Ežerinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit

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A Futakuchi-onna

Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
Fæcce (English) - Old English Animal protection spirit
Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
Familiar (English) - Animal servant
Far darrig (Irish) - Little people that constantly play pranks
Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
Feathered Serpent - Mesoamerican dragon
Fenghuang (Chinese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit
Fenris (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
Fext (Slavic) - Undead
Finfolk (Orkney) - Fish-human hybrid that kidnaps humans for servants
Fir Bolg (Irish) - Ancestral race
Fire Bird (Many cultures worldwide) - Regenerative, solar bird
Firedrake (Germanic) - Dragon
Fish-man (Cantabrian) - Amphibious, scaled humanoid
Fomorian (Irish) - Goat-headed giant
Forest Bull (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, red cattle with swiveling horns
Freybug - Norfolk black dog
Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
Funayūrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head
Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar

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Baroque Medusa (A gorgon) combined beauty and horror: Medusa, after 1590, by Caravaggio.

Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous monster
Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
Giant (mythology)
Giant animal (mythology)
Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster

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Hippocampus drawn from a fresco in Pompeii

Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozō (Japanese) - One-eyed child-like spirit
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
Hupia (Taíno) - Nocturnal ghost
Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep

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Incubus, 1870

Iannic-ann-ôd (Breton) - Ghost of a drowned person
Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
Ichimoku-nyūdō (Japanese) - One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
Ichthyocentaur (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
Ikiryō (Japanese) - can be considered a 'living ghost', as it is a person's spirit outside their body
Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
Il-Belliegħa (Maltese) - Malevolent well spirit
Imp (Medieval) - Diminutive, demonic servant
Impundulu (Southern Africa) - Avian, vampiric lightning spirit
Imugi (Korean) - Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons)
Inapertwa (Aboriginal) - Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else
Incubus (Medieval folklore) - Male night-demon and rapist
Indrik (Russian) - One-horned horse-bull hybrid
Indus Worm (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, white, carnivorous worm
Inkanyamba (Zulu) - Horse-headed serpent
Inugami (Japanese) - Dog spirit
Ipotane (Greek) - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged (as opposed to the four-legged centaur)
Ippon-datara (Japanese) - One-legged mountain spirit
Iratxoak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
Island Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage human-goat hybrid from a remote island chain
Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
Issie (Japanese) - Long Serpent like creature
Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people
Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk

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Thor goes fishing for Jörmungandr in this picture from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript.

Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
Jasy Jaterei (Guaraní) - Nature guardian and bogeyman
Jaud (Slavic) - Vampirised premature baby
Jenglot (Malay) - Vampiric little people
Jengu (Sawa) - Water spirit
Jentil (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Jenu (Mi'kmaq) - Anthropophagous giant
Jerff (Swedish) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Jian (Chinese) - One-eyed, one-winged bird who requires a mate for survival
Jiang Shi (Chinese) - Life-draining, reanimated corpse
Jiaolong (Chinese) - Dragon
Jibakurei (Japanese) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Jievaras (Lithuanian) - House spirit
Jikininki (Japanese) - Corpse-eating ghost
Jiu tou niao (Chinese) - Nine-headed, demonic bird
Jogah (Iroquois) - Little people nature spirit
Jörmungandr (Norse) - Sea serpent
Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits
Jumbee (Guyanese) - Malevolent spirit

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Depiction of a "Korrigan", small elf of the Celtic forests

Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
Kahaku (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
Kalakeyas (Hindu) - Descendents of Kala
Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Kamikiri (Japanese) - Hair-cutting spirit
Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) - Bathroom spirit
Kanbo (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Kanedama (Japanese) - Money spirit
Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kapre (Philippine) - Malevolent tree spirit
Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish) - Troublesome spirit
Karakura (Turkish) - Male night-demon
Karasu-tengu (Japanese) - Tengu with a bird's bill
Karkadann (Persian) - One-horned giant animal
Karkinos (Greek) - Giant crab
Karura (Japanese) - Eagle-human hybrid
Karzełek (Polish) - Little people and mine spirits
Kasha (Japanese) - Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
Kashanbo (Japanese) - Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
Katawa-guruma (Japanese) - Woman riding on a flaming wheel
Katsura-otoko (Japanese) - Handsome man from the moon
Kaukas (Lithuanian) - Nature spirit
Kawa-uso (Japanese) - Supernatural river otter
Kawa-zaru (Japanese) - Smelly, cowardly water spirit
Keelut (Inuit) - Hairless dog
Kee-wakw (Abenaki) - Anthropophagous giant
Kekkai (Japanese) - Amorphous afterbirth spirit
Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Ker (Greek) - Female death spirit
Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
Killmoulis (English and Scottish) - Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
Kishi (Angola) - Malevolent, two-faced seducer
Kitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) - Person possessed by a fox spirit
Kiyohime (Japanese) - Woman who transformed into a serpent-demon out of the rage of unrequited love
Klabautermann (German) - Ship spirit
Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Knucker (English) - Water dragon
Kobalos (Greek) - Shape-shifting thieves and tricksters
Kobold (German) - Little people and mine or house spirits
Kodama (Japanese) - Tree spirit
Kofewalt (Germanic) - House spirit
Ko-gok (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Kokakuchō (Japanese) - Ubume bird
Koma-inu (Japanese) - Protective animal
Konaki-Jijii (Japanese) - Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
Kongamoto (Congo) - Flying creature
Konoha-tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) - Little people
Korrigan (Breton) - Little people and nature spirits
Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
Krasue (Southeast Asian) - Vampiric, floating head
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) - Miniature fox spirit
Kudan (Japanese) - Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity and then dies
Kui (Chinese) - One-legged monster
Kulshedra (Albanian) - Drought-causing dragon
Kumakatok (Philippine) - Death spirits
Kumiho (Korean) - Fox spirit
Kun (Chinese) - Giant fish
Kupua (Hawaiian) - Shapeshifting tricksters
Kurabokko (Japanese) - Guardian spirit of a warehouse
Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) - Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire

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A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.

La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
La chusa (Spanish) - Death spirit
Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
Laelaps (Greek) - Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
Laestrygonians (Greek) - Anthropophagic giants
Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm
Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
Lammasu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
Lampades (Greek) - Underworld nymph
Landvættir (Norse) - Nature spirits
Lares (Roman) - House spirit
La Sayona (Venezuela) - Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
La Tunda (Colombian) - Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
Leanan sidhe (Celtic) - Fairy lover
Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) - Tiny animal poisonous to lions
Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
Leuce (Greek) - White poplar tree nymph
Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster
Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-horse hybrid
Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-goat hybrid
Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of lightning strikes
Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
Lilin (Jewish) - Night-demoness
Lilitu (Assyrian) - Winged demon
Limnades (Greek) - Lake nymph
Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
Lizardman (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Lóng - Chinese dragon
Longana (Italian) - Female human-goat hybrid and water spirit
Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit

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Contemporary poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted by Hamburg, German artist Schleisinger, ca. 1926, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora. ^[1]^[2]

Maa-alused (Estonian) - Subterranean spirit
Machlyes (Medieval Bestiary) - Hermaphroditic humanoid
Macrocephali (Medieval Bestiary) - Giant-headed humanoid
Madremonte (Colombian) - Nature guardian
Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
Magog (English) - Giant protector of London
Maha-pudma (Hindu) - Giant elephant that holds up the world
Mairu (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Mājas gari (Latvian) - Benevolent house spirit
Majin (Japanese) - Magical beings
Makara (Indian) - Aquatic beings
Makura-gaeshi (Japanese) - Pillow-moving spirit
Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water spirits
Manananggal (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly around
Mandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with a forty-year lifespan
Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
Manes (Roman) - Ancestral spirits
Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
Manticore (Persian) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
Mapinguari (Brazilian) - Giant sloth
Mara (Scandinavian) - Female night-demon
Marabbecca (Italian) - Malevolent water spirit
Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
Mares of Diomedes (Greek) - Man-eating horses
Marid (Arabian) - Water genie
Maro deivės (Lithuanian) - Disease spirits
Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting toad spirit
Massacooramaan (Guyanese) - Savage woodland humanoid
Matagot (French) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat
Mayura (Hindu) - Peacock spirit
Mazikeen (Jewish) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
Mbói Tu'ĩ (Guaraní) - Snake-parrot hybrid
Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
Mekurabe (Japanese) - Multiplying skulls that menaced Taira no Kiyomori in his courtyard
Meliae (Greek) - Ash tree nymph
Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged mermaid
Menehune (Hawaiian) - Little people and craftsmen
Menninkäinen (Finnish) - Little people and nature spirits
Merfolk (Worldwide) - Human-fish hybrid
Merlion (Singapore) - Combination of a lion and a fish, the symbol of Singapore.
Merrow (Irish and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki) - Ice-hearted wizards
Miage-nyūdō (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
Mikoshi-nyūdō (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
Mimi (Australian Aboriginal) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal) - Death spirit
Minotaur (Greek) - Human-bull hybrid
Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit
Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit
Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit
Mizuchi (Japanese) - Water dragon
Mogwai (Chinese) - Vengeful ghost or demon
Mohan (Latin America) - Nature spirit
Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
Moñái (Guaraní) - Giant snake with antennae
Monocerus (Medieval Bestiary) - One-horned stag-horse-elephant-boar hybrid, sometimes treated as distinct from the unicorn
Mono Grande (South America) - Giant monkey
Monopod (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dwarf with one giant foot
Mooinjer veggey (Manx) - Nature spirit
Moon-Gazer (Guyanese) - Brain-eating spirit
Mora (Slavic) - Disembodied spirit
Morgens (Breton and Welsh) - Water spirits
Morinji-no-okama (Japanese) - Animated tea kettle
Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
Mōryō (Japanese) - Long-eared, corpse-eating spirit
Moss people (Germanic) - Little people and tree spirits
Mujina (Japanese) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
Mula Retinta (Colombian) - Malevolent storm spirit that takes the form of a mule
Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal) - Water monster
Muma Pădurii (Romanian) - Forest-dwelling hag
Muscaliet (Medieval Bestiary) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid
Muse (Greek) - Spirits that inspire artists
Musimon (Heraldic) - Sheep-goat hybrid
Myling (Scandinavian) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
Myōbu (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Myrmecoleon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid

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A Hoysala sculpture of a Naga couple. Halebidu.

Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) - Nature and water spirits, serpentine or human-serpent hybrids
Naga fireballs (Thai) - Spectral fire
Nagual (Mesoamerica) - Human-animal shapeshifter
Naiad (Greek) - Freshwater nymph
Näkki (Finnish) - Water spirit
Namahage (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
Namazu (Japanese) - Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
Nando-baba (Japanese) - Old woman who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
Nasnas (Arabian) - Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body
Nav' (Slavic) - Ghost
Nawao (Hawaiian) - Savage humanoid
N-dam-keno-wet (Abenaki) - Fish-human hybrid
Negret (Catalan) - Little people that turn into coins
Nekomata (Japanese) - Split-tailed magical cat
Nekomusume (Japanese) - Cat in the form of a girl
Nemean Lion (Greek) - Lion with impenetrable skin
Nephilim (Jewish) - Giant
Nereid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Nereus
Ngen (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Nguruvilu (Mapuche) - Fox-like water snake
Nian (Chinese) - Predatory animal
Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) - Warrior ghosts
Nikusui (Japanese) - Monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body
Nimerigar (Shoshone) - Aggressive little people
Ningyo (Japanese) - Monkey-fish hybrid
Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) - Large reptile, possibly a dragon
Nisse (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Níðhöggr (Norse) - Dragon
Nivatakavachas (Hindu) - Ocean demon
Nix (Germanic) - Female water spirit
Nobusuma (Japanese) - Supernatural wall. Also a monstrous flying squirrel
Nocnitsa (Slavic) - Nightmare spirit
Noppera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
Nu Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit

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1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos of an Ouroboros, in alchemical tract titled Synosius.

Obake (Japanese) - Shapeshifting spirits
Obambo (Central African) - Homeless ghost
Obariyon (Japanese) - Spook which rides piggyback on a human victim and becomes unbearably heavy
Obayifo (Ashanti) - Vampiric possession spirit
Obia (West Africa) - Gigantic animal that serves witches
Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus
Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit
Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling
Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites
Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl
Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore
Ole-Higue (Guyanese) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire
Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses
Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid
Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon
Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than spectral) form
Onza (Aztec and Latin American folklore) - Wild cat, possibly a subspecies of cougar
Oozlum bird (Unknown origin) - Bird that flies backwards
Ophiotaurus (Greek) - Bull-serpent hybrid
Opinicus (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid, similar to a griffin, but with leonine forelimbs
Orang Bunian (Malay) - Forest spirit
Orang Minyak (Malay) - Spectral rapist
Ördög (Hungarian) - Shapeshifting demon
Oread (Greek) - Mountain nymph
Ork ( Tyrolean) - Little people and house spirits
Orobas (European) - Horse-headed, honest oracle classed as a demon
Orphan Bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Peacock-eagle-swan-crane hybrid
Orthrus (Greek) - Two-headed dog
Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit
Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail
Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit

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A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton. Wings were not present in the original painting.

Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with giant ears, eight fingers and toes, and white hair
Panis (Hindu) - Demons with herds of stolen cows
Panlong (Chinese) - Water dragon
Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid with gigantic ears
Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline with sweet breath
Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed panther
Patagon (Medieval folklore) - Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
Patasola (Latin America) - Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
Patupairehe (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
Pelesit (Malay) - Servant spirit
Peluda (French) - Dragon
Penanggalan (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
Peng (Chinese) - Giant bird
Penghou (Chinese) - Tree spirit
Peri (Persian) - Winged humanoid
Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) - Deer-bird hybrid
Pesanta (Catalan) - Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) - Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
Piatek (Armenian) - Large land animal
Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) - Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
Pillan (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) - Water spirit
Piru (Finnish) - Minor demon
Pishacha (Hindu) - Carrion-eating demon
Pita-skog (Abenaki) - Serpentine rain spirit
Pixie (Cornish) - Little people and nature spirits
Pixiu (Chinese) - Winged lion
Pi yao (Chinese) - Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
Plakavac (Slavic) - Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) - Tree spirit
Polevik (Polish) - Little people and field spirits
Pollo Maligno (Colombian) - Man-eating chicken spirit
Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
Psoglav (Serbia) - Dog-headed monster
Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
Psychai (Greek) - Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
Púki (Icelandic) - malevolent little person
Puck (English) - House spirit
Putz (German) - house spirit
Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
Puk (Frisian) - house spirit
Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon

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A qilin of the Qing dynasty in Beijing's Summer Palace

Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirits
Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull

[edit] R

Australian Aboriginal rock painting of the "Rainbow Serpent".

Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
Radande (Unknown) - Tree spirit
Ragana (Lithuanian) - Malevolent wizard
Raijū (Japanese) - Lightning spirit
Rain Bird (Native American) - Rain spirit
Rainbow crow (Lenape) - Crow spirit
Rainbow Fish (Hindu) - Whale-sized, multi-colored fish
Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
Reichsadler (Heraldic) - Eagle, sometimes depicted with two heads
Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
Ryū - Japanese dragon

[edit] S

Saci Pererê

Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
Samebito (Japanese) - Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea.
Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
Scorpion Man (Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) - Water spirit
Shen (Chinese) - Shapeshifing sea monster
Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages
Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost
Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni
Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
Spearfinger (Cherokee) - Sharp-fingered hag
Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves
Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
Svartálfar (Norse) - "swart-elves", Cavern spirit
The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Sylvan (Medieval folklore) - Forest spirit
Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) - African giant
Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) - Reptilian humanoid

[edit] T

Tikbalang

Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
Taimatsumaru (Japanese) - Tengu surrounded in demon fire
Takam (Persian) - Nature spirit
Taka-onna (Japanese) - Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
Tangie (Scottish) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
Tantankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
Taotao Mona (Mariana Islands) - Ancestral spirits
Taotie (Chinese) - Greed spirit
Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
Tarasque (French) - Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
Tartaruchi (Christian) - Demonic punisher
Tatami-tataki (Japanese) - Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
Tatsu - Japanese dragon
Tatzelwurm (German) - Serpent-like being with a cat head
Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
Teju Jagua (Guaraní) - Lizard with seven dog heads
Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
Terrible Monster (Jewish) - Lion-eagle-scorpion hybrid made from the blood of murder victims
Teumessian Fox (Greek) - Gigantic fox
Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) - Animal-headed humanoid
Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) - Solar bird
Thunderbird (Native American) - Avian lightning spirit, bird
Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
Tianlong (Chinese) - Celestial dragon
Tibicena (Canarian) - Evil Dog
Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
Timingila (Hindu) - Sea monster
Tipua (Māori) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Tiyanak (Philippine) - Malevolent spirit in the form of a human infant
Tizheruk (Inuit) - Sea serpent
Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) - Shapeshifting vampire
Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) - Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) - Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
Tōtetsu (Japanese) - Greed spirit
Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
Tripurasura (Hindu) - Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
Tsi-noo (Abenaki) - Vampiric demon
Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Plump snake-like creature
Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
Tsurara-onna (Japanese) - Icicle woman
Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people
Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
Tylwyth Teg (Welsh) - Nature spirit
Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
Turul (Hungarian) - Giant bird
Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant
Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit

[edit] U

Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah

Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby
Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
Uriaş (Romanian) - Giant
Urmahlullu (Mesopotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit

[edit] V

A Vision Serpent, detail of Lintel 15 at the Classic Maya site of Yaxchilan

Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
Vampire (Slavic) - Reanimated corpse that subsists on blood
Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost
Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid

[edit] W

A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722

Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
Wampus cat (Cherokee) - Human-cougar hybrid
Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
Wani (Japanese)- A crocodilian water monster
Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg-laying bird
Warg (English and Scandinavian O.N. vargr) - Giant, demonic wolf
Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
Weisse Frauen (German) - Female spirit
Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
White Lady (Worldwide) - Ghost of a murdered or mistreated woman
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
Woodwose (English) - Savage woodland humanoid
Wolpertinger (German) - German version of a jackalope
Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
Wu Tou Gui (Chinese) - Beheaded ghost
Wyrm - English dragon
Wyvern (Germanic Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings

[edit] X

Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit

[edit] Y

Heraldic image of a Yale.

Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
Yeti (Tibet) - Abominable Snowman
Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
Yōkai (Japanese) - Monstrous spirit
Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Yong - Korean dragon
Yōsei (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) - Wandering ghost
Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
Yuan Gui (Chinese) - Distressed ghost
Yukinko (Japanese) - Childlike snow spirit
Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
Yuxa (Tatar) - 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human

[edit] Z

Zilant. Kazan Metro station

Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
Zburator (Romanian) - Wolf-headed dragon
Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
Zmiy - Slavic dragon
Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Jell-Bahlsen 1997, p. 105
^ Chesi 1997, p. 255)

[edit] External links

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[0] Jell-Bahlsen 1997, p. 105

[1] Chesi 1997, p. 255)

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