List of legendary creatures

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

This is a list of legendary creatures. Creatures of modern invention are not included. Only creatures with English Wikipedia articles should be included.

Species or entirely unique, individual monsters are included, not individuals of a particular species. For example, Pegasus should not be included, as he is an individual of (and the progenitor of) the pterippus species, while Scylla is included as she is a one-of-a-kind monster.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost

Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal
Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that ride ants
Abumi-guchi (Japanese) - Furry creature formed from the stirrup of a mounted military commander
Abura-akago (Japanese) - Oil-drinking infant
Abura-bō (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Ghost of oil thieves
Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
Adze (Ewe people) - African vampiric forest being
Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropohagous humanoid with eyes in its instep
Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
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
Akaname (Japanese) -Bathroom spirit
Akashita (Japanese) - Giant beast
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
Alerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds
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 (Spanish) - 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
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
Amefurikozō (Japanese) - Child-like weather spirit
Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
Ameonna (Japanese) - Female rain spirit
Amikiri (Japanese) - Snake-bird-lobster hybrid
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 a winged humanoid
Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern
Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture
Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
Aoandon (Japanese) - Spirit summoned at the end of a story-telling contest
Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep
Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children
Aonyōbō (Japanese) - Female ghost who lurks in an abandoned imperial palace
Aosaginohi (Japanese) - Glowing heron
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
Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers
Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid
Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon
Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon
Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
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
Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people
Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit
Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph
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

[edit] B

Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature

Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
Bai Ze (Chinese) - Sheep-like animal
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
Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
Basan (Japanese) - Fire-breathing chicken
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, anthropohagous, partially invisible monster
Bies (Slavic) - Demon
Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
Biwa-yanagi (Japanese) - Animated biwa
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 (British) - 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
Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
Buruburu (Japanese) - Spirit which causes the shivers
Byaka (Russian) - Furry creature
Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit

[edit] C

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
Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
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
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
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
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
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
Cofgodas (Anglo-Saxon) - House sprit
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
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
Dodomeki (Japanese) - Ghost of a pickpocket, her arms are covered in eyes
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
Dorotabō (Japanese) - Ghost of an old man whose rice fields were neglected and sold
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Dragon
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
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) - Possessing spirit
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
Enenra (Japanese) - Monster made of smoke
Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
Enkō (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
Ežerinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit

[edit] F

A Futakuchi-onna

Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
Fæcce (Anglo-Saxon) - 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
Fenrir (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
Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
Funayūrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
Furu-utsubo (Japanese) - Animated jar
Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head
Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar

[edit] G

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) - Anthropohagous 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
Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster
Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
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
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
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
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gwyllgi - Welsh black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gytrash - Lincolnshire and Yorkshire black dog
Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster

[edit] H

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, anthropohagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
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 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
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffon
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to seduce men
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
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
Hyōtan-kozō (Japanese) - Gourd spirit

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Incubus, 1870

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) - Disembodied soul
Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
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
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 servents
Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Malevolent ghost
Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk

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Artist sketch of Jack-In-Irons.

Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
Jakotsu-babaa (Japanese) - Old woman who guards a snake mound
Jann (Arabian) - Oasis genie
Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
Jasy Jaterei (Guaraní) - Nature guardian and bogeyman
Jatai (Japanese) - Obi which has transformed into a snake
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
Jorōgumo (Japanese) - Spider spirit
Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth
Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits

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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
Kage-onna (Japanese) - Shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted house
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
Kasa-obake (Japanese) - Animated parasol
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-akago (Japanese) - Infant monster that lurks near rivers and drowns people
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
Kerakera-onna (Japanese) - Giant, cackling woman who appears in the sky
Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
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
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
Kosode-no-te (Japanese) - Short-sleeved kimono with its own hands
Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Headless ghost
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
Kyōkotsu (Japanese) - Ghost of a corpse discarded in a well
Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
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
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 (possibly a dragon)
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
Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
Lenanshee (Celtic) - Fairy lover
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
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
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
Maal (Bangladesh) - Malevolent water spirit
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
Maikubi (Japanese) - Quarreling heads of three dead miscreants
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
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
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
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) (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
Mohan (Latin America) - Nature spirit
Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
Mokumokuren (Japanese) - Spirits that live in torn shōji
Momonjii (Japanese) - Old man that meets victims at the fork of every road
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
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
Mountain Giant (Norse) - Giant
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
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
Narikama (Japanese) - Kettle spirit
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
Nebutori (Japanese) - Mystical disease which causes women to grow fat and lethargic
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
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
Nuppefuhofu (Japanese) - Animated lump of decaying human flesh
Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh
Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Creature who sneaks into houses on busy evenings
Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
Nuribotoke (Japanese) - Animated corpse with blackened flesh and dangling eyeballs
Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an endless wall
Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
Nyūbachibō (Japanese) - Mortar spirit

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

Obake (Japanese) - Shapeshifting spirits
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
Oboro-guruma (Japanese) - Ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver
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
Ohaguro-bettari (Japanese) - Female ghost lacking all facial features save for a large, black-toothed smile
Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
Ōkamuro (Japanese) - Giant face which appears at the door
Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl
Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit
Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore
Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire
Onikuma (Japanese) - Monstrous bear
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
Otoroshi (Japanese) - Hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples
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
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) - Canibbalistic 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
Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
Puck (English) - House spirit
Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
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

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Australian Aboriginal rock painting of the "Rainbow Serpent".

Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
Ragana (Lithuanian) - Malevolent wizard
Raiju (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
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 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 demon
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
Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
Scorpion Man (Mayan and 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
Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware
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 (Scottish) - Water spirit
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
Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
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
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
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 (English) - Winged little people
Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
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
Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental

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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
Tankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
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
Tenjōname (Japanese) - Ceiling-licking spirit
Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
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
Titan (Greek) - Giant
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) - Small sea serpent
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) - Ambush predator
Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
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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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 passerbies
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
Ungaikyō (Japanese) - Mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its surface
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 (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit
Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people

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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) - Re-animated 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
Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
Wani - A crocodilian water monster
Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg laying bird
Warg (Norse) - 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 sun spirit
Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
Wyrm - English dragon
Wyvern (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
Yamaarashi (Japanese) - Porcupine 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-oroshi (Japanese) - a Radish-grater 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
Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
Yofune-nushi (Japanese) - Sea monster
Yōkai (Japanese) - Demon
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
Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
Yukinko (Japanese) - Child-like 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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Zilant. Kazan Metro station

Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
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
Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock
Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost

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