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* Á Bao A Qu (Malay) - Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor * Aatxe (Basque) - Spirit that takes the form of a bull * Abassy (Yakuts) - Demons that have teeth of iron * 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 * 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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* 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) - A ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline * 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 * Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy * 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 * Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims * 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 (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds * Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit | |
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* 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 | |
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* 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 * Demigod - Half human, half god. * 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 | |
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* 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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* 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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* Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon * Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons * 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 * 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 * Gyascutus (American folklore) - Four-legged herbivore * Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog * Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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* 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 * Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) - Deer-goat hybrid * 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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* 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 * Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people * Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk | |
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* Jackalope (English folklore) - Horned rabbit * 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 * Jatayu (Hindu mythology) - A demi-god who has the form of a vulture * Jaud (Slavic) - Vampirised premature baby * Jenglot (Java) - 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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* 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 * Kirin (Japanese) - Japanese Unicorn * 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 * Kurma (Hindu mythology) - the second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle * 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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* 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 * 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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* Maa-alused (Estonian mythology) - Subterranean spirit * Machlyes (Medieval bestiaries) - Hermaphroditic humanoid * Macrocephali (Medieval bestiaries) - Giant-headed humanoid * Madremonte (Colombian folklore) - Nature guardian * Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids * Magog (English folklore) - Giant protector of London * Maha-pudma (Hindu mythology) - Giant elephant that holds up the world * Mairu (Basque mythology) - Megalith-building giant * Mājas gari (Latvian mythology) - Benevolent house spirit * Majin (Japanese mythology) - Magical beings * Makara (Indian mythology) - Aquatic beings * Makura-gaeshi (Japanese mythology) - Pillow-moving spirit * Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water spirits * Manananggal (Philippine mythology) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly around * Mandi (Medieval bestiaries) - Humanoid with a forty-year lifespan * Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct * Manes (Roman mythology) - Ancestral spirits * Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses * Manticore (Persian mythology) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid * Mapinguari (Brazilian mythology) - Giant sloth * Mara (Scandinavian folklore) - Female night-demon * Marabbecca (Italian folklore) - Malevolent water spirit * Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god * Mares of Diomedes (Greek mythology) - Man-eating horses * Marid (Arabian mythology) - Water genie * Maro deivės (Lithuanian mythology) - Disease spirits * Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki mythology) - Shapeshifting toad spirit * Matagot (French mythology) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat * Matsya (Hindu mythology) - first Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a half-fish and half-man * Mayura (Hindu mythology) - Peacock spirit * Mazikeen (Jewish mythology) - Invisible, malevolent spirit * Mbói Tu'ĩ (Guaraní mythology) - Snake-parrot hybrid * Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon * Meliae (Greek mythology) - Ash tree nymph * Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged mermaid or serpent * Menehune (Hawaiian mythology) - Little people and craftsmen * Menninkäinen (Finnish mythology) - Little people and nature spirits * Merlion (Singapore) - Combination of a lion and a fish, the symbol of Singapore * Mermaid (multiple cultures) - Human-fish hybrid * Merrow (Irish mythology and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid * Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki mythology) - Ice-hearted wizards * Mimi (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in rock crevasses to avoid blowing away * Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Death spirit * Minotaur (Greek mythology) - Human-bull hybrid * Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit * Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit * Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit * Mizuchi (Japanese mythology) - Water dragon * Mogwai (Chinese mythology) - Vengeful ghost or demon * Mohan (Latin American folklore) - Nature spirit * Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers * Moñái (Guaraní mythology) - Giant snake with antennae * Monocerus (Medieval bestiaries) - 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 folklore) - Nature spirit * Mora (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied spirit * Morgens (Breton and Welsh mythology) - Water spirits * Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit * Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost * Moss people (Continental Germanic mythology) - Little people and tree spirits * Mujina (Japanese mythology) - Shapeshifting badger spirit * Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Water monster * Muma Pădurii (Romanian folklore) - Forest-dwelling hag * Muscaliet (Medieval bestiaries) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid * Muse (Greek mythology) - Spirits that inspire artists * Musimon (Heraldic) - Sheep-goat hybrid * Myling (Scandinavian folklore) - Ghosts of unbaptized children * Myrmecoleon (Medieval bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid
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* 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 * Narasimha (Hindu mythology) - Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion * 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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* 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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* 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 * Puckwudgie (Native American) - Troll-like being with gray skin. * Pygmy (Greek) - Little people * Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid * Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
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* 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 | |
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* 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
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* 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 | |
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* 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 * 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
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* 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 * Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit that shouts to surprise people
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* 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 * Varaha (Hindu mythology) - third Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a boar * Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf * Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double * Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human * 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, werewolf-like monster * Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon * Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon * Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit * Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid | |
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* 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 * Wild man (European) – Hairy, bipedal man-like creature * Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire * Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit * Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit * Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit * 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
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* Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit * Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant * Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant * Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
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* 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
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* 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 | |
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