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  Á Bao A Qu (Malay) - An entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor. 
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  Aatxe (Basque) - A spirit that takes the form of a bull. 
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  Abaasy (Yakuts) - Demons that have teeth of iron. 
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  Abada (African) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo. 
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  Äbädä (Tatar) - Forest spirit. 
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  Abaia (Melanesia) - Huge magical eel. 
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  Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet. 
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  Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal. 
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  Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. 
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  Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids. 
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  Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost. 
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  Achlis (Roman) - Curious elk. 
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  Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages. 
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  Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk. 
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  Adhene (Manx) - Nature spirit. 
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  Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid 
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  Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit. 
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  Adze (Ewe people) - An African vampiric-forest being. 
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  Aerico (Greek) - Disease demon. 
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  Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story). 
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  Agni (Hindu) - God of fire and sacrifices. 
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  Agathodaemon (Greek) - Spirit of vinefields and grainfields. 
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  Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen. 
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  Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid. 
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  Ahkiyyini (Inuit) - Animated skeleton that causes shipwrecks. 
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  Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid. 
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  Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous humanoid with eyes in its instep. 
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  Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat. 
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  Airavata (Hindu) - Divine Elephant. 
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  Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons. 
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  Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit. 
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  Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon. 
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  Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa. 
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  Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster. 
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  Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter. 
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  Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses. 
  
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  Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid. 
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  Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster. 
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  Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit. 
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  Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world. 
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  Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease. 
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  Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women. 
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  Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon. 
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  Alal (Chaldean) - Demon. 
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  Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children. 
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  Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin. 
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  Aleya (Bengali) - Spirit of a dead fisherman. 
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  Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver. 
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  Alicorn - A winged unicorn from the Latin "ala" (wing) and "corn" (horn). 
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  Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts. 
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  Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid. 
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  Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid. 
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  Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit. 
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  Aloja (Catalan) - Female water spirit. 
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  Alom-bag-winno-sis (Abenaki) - Little people and tricksters. 
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  Alp (German) - Male night-demon. 
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  Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs. 
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  Alp-luachra (Irish) - Parasitic fairy. 
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  Al Rakim (Islamic) - Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers. 
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  Alseid (Greek) - Grove nymph. 
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  Alû (Assyrian) - Leprous demon. 
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  Alux (Mayan) - Little people. 
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  Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku. 
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  Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world. 
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  Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku. 
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  Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon. 
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  Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf. 
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  Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit. 
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  Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag. 
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  Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster. 
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  Ammit (Ancient Egyptian) - Female demon with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and 
  crocodile. 
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  Amorōnagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima. 
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  Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent. 
  
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  Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end. 
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  Anakim (Jewish) - Giant. 
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  Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx. 
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  Angel (mainly Christian, Jewish, Islamic traditions) - From the Greek ángelos, divine beings 
  of Heaven who act as mediators between God and humans; the counterparts ofDemons. 
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  Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid. 
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  Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit. 
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  Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern and a scythe. 
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  Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture. 
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  Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the 
  ground. 
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  Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant. 
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  Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep. 
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  Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children. 
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  Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki. 
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  Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit. 
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  Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid. 
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  Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon. 
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  Argus Panoptes (Greek) - Hundred-eyed giant. 
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  Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers. 
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  Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid. 
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  Arion (Greek) - Extremely swift horse with a green mane and the power of speech. 
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  Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog. 
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  Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon. 
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  Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon. 
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  Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire. 
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  Asena (Turkic) - Blue-maned wolf. 
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  A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant. 
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  Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement. 
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  Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit. 
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  Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit. 
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  Ask-wee-da-eed (Abenaki) - Fire elemental and spectral fire. 
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  Asobibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Kōchi Prefecture. 
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  Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle. 
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  Asrai (English) - Water spirit. 
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  Astomi (Greek) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food. 
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  Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid. 
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  Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature. 
  
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  Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people. 
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  Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit. 
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  Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph. 
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  Avalerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds. 
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  Awa-hon-do (Abenaki) - Insect spirit. 
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  Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid. 
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  Ayakashi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil. 
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  Ayakashi-no-ayashibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Ishikawa Prefecture. 
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  Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters. 
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  Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides. 
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  Azukibabaa (Japanese) - Bean-grinding hag who devours people. 
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  Azukitogi (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides. 
   
   
  
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  Ba (Egyptian) - Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird. 
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  Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag 
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  Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people 
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  Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit 
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  Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish 
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  Bar Juchne (Abrahamic and Talmudic) - Bird 
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  Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent 
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  Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits 
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  Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit 
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  Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane 
  Prefecture 
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  Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat 
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  Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal 
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  Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon 
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  Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature 
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  Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses 
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  Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon 
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  Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit 
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  Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit 
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  Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers 
  by night 
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  Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet 
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  Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit 
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  Barghest - Yorkshire black dog 
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  Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird 
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  Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles 
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  Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit 
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  Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race 
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  BasCelik (Serbian) - Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be 
  subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration 
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  Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid 
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  Basilisk (Italian) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard 
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  Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon 
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  Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit 
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  Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit 
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  Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton 
  
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  Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe) 
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  Behemoth (Jewish) - Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or crocodile 
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  Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king 
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  Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix 
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  Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit 
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  Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") 
  in Jotunheim 
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  Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit 
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  Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter 
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  Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of 
  footsteps 
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  Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide 
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  Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster 
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  Bies (Slavic) - Demon 
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  Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman. 
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  Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty 
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  Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid 
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  Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese)- Animated biwa 
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  Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag 
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  Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit 
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  Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog 
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  Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso 
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  Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman 
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  Blue Crow (Brazilian) - a giant amazonian bird. 
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  Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy 
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  Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit 
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  Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit 
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  Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit 
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  Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit 
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  Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit 
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  Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake 
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  Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon 
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  Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung 
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  Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims 
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  Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird 
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  Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit 
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  Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse 
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  Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit 
  
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  Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk 
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  Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - bandits 
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  Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin 
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  Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid 
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  Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit 
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  Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster 
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  Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster 
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  Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse 
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  Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men 
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  Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds 
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  Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit 
   
   
  
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  Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirit 
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  Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant 
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  Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white; 
  malevolent and black 
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  Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit 
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  Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die 
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  Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan 
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  Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it 
  hates 
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  Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar 
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  Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid 
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  Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf 
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  Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Human/incubus or succubus hybrid 
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  Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid 
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  Camulatz (Mayan) - Bird that ate the heads of the first men 
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  Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag 
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  Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar 
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  Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits 
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  Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe) 
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  Čhápa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit 
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  Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid 
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  Carbuncle (Latin America) - Small creature with a jewel on its head 
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  Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid 
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  Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat 
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  Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse 
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  Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid 
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  Centicore Indian mythology Indian- Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid 
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  Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake 
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  Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld 
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  Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit 
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  Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the 
  other it hates 
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  Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves 
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  Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit 
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  Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird 
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  Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid 
  
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  Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits 
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  Changeling (European) - Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human 
  child 
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  Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth 
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  Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members 
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  Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster 
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  Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person 
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  Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women 
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  Chickcharney (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid 
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  Chimbwe (hyena) in Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania) 
  mythology 
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  Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid 
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  Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils 
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  Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa 
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  Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid 
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  Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern 
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  Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse 
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  Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head 
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  Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth 
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  Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savage with dog teeth 
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  Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar 
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  Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram 
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  Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world 
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  Chupacabra (Latin America) - Cryptid beast, named for its habit of sucking the blood of goats 
  and other livestock 
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  Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost 
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  Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress 
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  Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghost of women that died in childbirth 
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  Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner 
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  Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon 
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  Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid 
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  Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent 
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  Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk 
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  Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits 
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  Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid 
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  Cofgod (English) - Cove god 
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  Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent 
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  Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave 
  
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  Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull 
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  Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph 
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  Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx 
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  Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf 
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  The Cu Bird (Mexican) - El Pájaro Cu; a bird. 
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  Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman 
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  Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit 
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  Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid 
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  Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon 
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  Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit 
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  Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog 
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  Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dog 
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  Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giant 
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  Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit 
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  Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid 
   
   
  
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  Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits 
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  Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit 
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  Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) - like a deer or ibex with legs on one side of its 
  body are shorter than on the other side 
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  Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan 
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  Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate 
  mountain 
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  Daitya (Hindu) - Giant 
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  Danava (Hindu) - Water demon 
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  Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph 
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  Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead 
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  Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message 
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  Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid 
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  Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being 
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  Demon (Global) - From the Greek daímon, chthonic entities of Hell mostly seen as evil minions 
  of Satan who bring chaos and darkness upon the earth; the counterparts ofAngels. 
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  Demigod (Global) - Half human, half god. 
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  Dhampir (Balkans) - Human/vampire hybrid 
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  Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost 
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  Djinn (Islam) - Genii 
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  Dilong (Chinese) - Earth dragon 
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  Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog 
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  Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit 
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  Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake 
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  Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit 
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  Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits 
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  Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit 
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  Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid 
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  Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people 
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  Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids 
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  Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits 
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  Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit 
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  Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit 
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  Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double 
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  Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon 
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  Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent 
  
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  Drakon (Greek) A snakelike creature with bat wings acidic breath and a paralyzing stare. 
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  Drakaina (Greek) - Dragons depicted with female characteristics 
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  Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) - Fire-breathing and winged (normally) 
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  Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head 
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  Draugr (Norse) - Undead 
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  Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child 
   
  Drop Bear (Australian) Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees 
   
  Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit 
   
  Drude (German) - Possessing demon 
   
  Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon 
   
  Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph 
   
  Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) - 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 
   
   
  
  E 
   
  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) – the Fire Giants who reside in Muspelheim, with Surtr as their leader 
   
  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 
   
  Engkanto (Philippine) - neutral nature spirit 
   
  Enkō (Japanese) – Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū 
   
  Epimeliad (Greek) – Apple tree nymph 
   
  Erchitu (Sardinia) - Ox-human, wereox 
   
  Er Gui (Chinese) – Hungry ghost 
   
  Erinyes (Greek) – possibly winged spirits of vengeance or justice. Also known as Furies. 
   
  Erlking (German) – 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 
   
  Ewah (Cherokee) - Human-cougar hybrid 
  
   
  Ežerinis (Lithuanian) – Lake spirit 
   
   
  
  F 
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  Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body 
   
  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) - Chinese Phoenix, female in marriage symbol 
   
  Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit 
   
  Fenris (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf 
   
  Fetch (Irish) - Double or doppelgänger 
   
  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 
   
  Furu-utsubo (Japanese) - Animated jar 
   
  Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head 
   
  Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar 
   
   
  
  G 
   
  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 hound 
   
  Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid 
   
  Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons 
   
  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 shape shifting desert anthropophagus, often classified as 
  undead. 
   
  Giant (Worldwide) - Humanoid creatures of immense size and strength 
   
  Giant animal (Worldwide) - Unusually large beasts 
   
  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 
   
  Guffin (American Folklore) - Plant hybrid creatures 
   
  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. 
   
  Gurumapa (Nepalese) - Child-eating demon 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  H 
   
  Habrok (Norse) - the "best" hawk 
   
  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 Horseman (European) - Humanoid spirit who haunts or kills 
   
  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 griffin 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 childlike spirit 
   
  Hob (English) - House spirit 
   
  Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit 
   
  Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin 
   
  Hodag (Native American) - part frog, part mammoth, part lizard, from Native 
  American mythology 
   
  Hokhokw (Kwakiutl) - a bird 
   
  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 
   
  Hraesvelg (Norse) - a giant, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings 
   
  Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giants who are the main inhabitants of either Jotunheim or Niflheim 
   
  Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid 
   
  Hugin and Munin (Norse) - Thought and Memory; a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god 
  Odin 
   
  Huldra (Scandinavian) - 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 
   
   
  
  I 
   
  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 
   
  Ichchhadhari Nag (Hindu) - shape-shifting venomous snakes 
   
  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-horse 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 
   
   
  
  J 
   
  Jackalope (American) - A rabbit with antlers 
   
  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 
   
  Jersey Devil (American) - Demonic dragon that was given birth to by an American living in New 
  Jersey 
   
  Jian (Chinese) - One-eyed, one-winged bird who requires a mate for survival 
   
  Jiangshi (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 
   
  Jinn (Arabian) - Spiritual creatures 
   
  Jiufeng (Chinese) - a nine-headed bird worshiped by ancient natives in Hubei Province. 
   
  Jiu tou niao (Chinese) - Nine-headed, demonic bird 
   
  Jogah (Iroquois) - Little people nature spirit 
   
  Jörmungandr (Norse) - Sea serpent 
   
  Jorōgumo (Japanese) - Spider woman 
   
  Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth 
   
  Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits 
   
  Jujak (Korean) - A bird 
   
  Jumbee (Guyanese) - Malevolent spirit 
   
   
  
  K 
   
  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 
   
  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-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 
   
  Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit 
  
   
  Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin 
   
  Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls 
   
  Khyah (Nepalese) - Fat, hairy ape-like creature 
   
  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 
   
  Kin-u (Japanese) - a bird 
   
  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 
   
  Komainu (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 
   
  Kwakwakalanooksiwae (Kwakiutl) - a bird 
   
  Kwame (Ghanan religion) - A giggling spirit of the night who kidnaps babies and has sex with 
  livestock. 
   
  Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid 
   
  Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper 
   
  Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox 
   
  Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire 
   
   
  
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  La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon 
   
  Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake 
   
  Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit 
   
  Ladon (Greek) - Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides 
   
  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 
   
  Lakhey (Nepalese) - Demon with fangs 
   
  La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning 
   
  Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a 
  human head 
   
  Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm 
   
  Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster 
   
  Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet 
   
  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, as seen in Job 41 
   
  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 
   
  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 
   
  Lorch (North Ozarkan) - Goat/man who rides the "Chariot of Hawking" - Epithets: "Dream killer" 
  and "Grammar Master"[citation needed] 
   
  Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid 
   
  Loup-garou (French) - Werewolf 
   
  Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit 
   
  Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal 
   
  Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit 
   
  Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin 
   
  Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit 
   
   
  
  M 
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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 
   
  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) - Jinn associated with open waters of the seas and oceans 
   
  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 that of 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 
   
  Minokawa (Philippine) - Giant swallow 
   
  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 
   
  Morinji-no-okama (Japanese mythology) - Animated tea kettle 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  N 
   
  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 
   
  Nang Takian (Thai) - Tree spirit 
   
  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 
   
  Nariphon (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 
   
  Neck (Germanic mythology) - Female water spirit 
   
  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 
   
  Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh 
   
  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 
   
  Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) - The snake-spirit of the Zambezi River 
   
  Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit 
   
  Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit 
   
   
  
  O 
   
  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 
   
  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 
   
  Ojáncanu (Cantabrian) - Giant cyclops who embodies evil. 
   
  Okiku (Japanese) - Spirit of a plate-counting servant girl, associated with the "Okiku-Mushi" 
  worm 
   
  Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit 
   
  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 a physical rather than a 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 
   
  Pegasus (Greek) - Winged horse 
   
  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 
   
  Phi Tai Hong, the ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death in Thai 
  folklore 
   
  Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird 
   
  Piasa (Native American mythology) - Winged, antlered feline-like dragon 
   
  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 Jain) - Ghosts of especially greedy people 
   
  Pricolici (Romanian - Roman) - 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 mythology) - Troll-like being with gray skin 
   
  Pygmy (Greek) - Little people 
   
  Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid 
   
  Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon 
   
   
  
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   
  Qalupalik (Inuit mythology)- Aquatic human abductor 
   
  Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon 
   
  Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid 
   
  Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit 
   
  Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirit 
   
  Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid 
   
  Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) - An important god of the Aztec people; name meaning "feathered serpent". 
   
  Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull 
   
   
  
  R 
   
  Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place 
   
  Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people 
   
  Radande (Swedish) - 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) - Snake 
   
  Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demon 
   
  Ramidreju (Cantabrian) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal 
   
  Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit 
   
  Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit 
   
  Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit 
   
  Ratatoskr (Norse) - Squirrel spirit 
   
  Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid 
   
  Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal 
   
  Reichsadler (Heraldic) - Eagle, sometimes depicted with two heads 
   
  Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant 
   
  Reptilian humanoid (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid 
   
  Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead 
   
  Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird 
   
  Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid trickster 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  S 
   
  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 
   
  Sampaati (Hindu) - brother to the demi-god Jatayu 
   
  Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children 
   
  Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod 
   
  Santelmo (Philippine) - Spirits in a form of fireball, roaming around the forest 
   
  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 
   
  Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit 
   
  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 
  
   
  Sewer alligator (American folklore) - Sewer-inhabiting reptile from New York City 
   
  Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid 
   
  Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint 
   
  Shadow People (American) - Malevolent ghost 
   
  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 
   
  Shinigami (Japanese) - "Death god" 
   
  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 
   
  Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost 
   
  Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak'in), an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to 
  resemble a wolf or hyena 
   
  Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul 
   
  Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Ruler of the Oni 
   
  Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit 
   
  Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire 
   
  Sileni (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-Fish Hybrid 
  
   
  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) - Animal-human shapeshifter 
   
  Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit 
   
  Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant 
   
  Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp 
   
  Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit 
   
  Sleipnir (Norse) - eight-legged horse 
   
  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 
   
  Squonk (American) - Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself 
  into a pool of tears 
   
  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 
   
  Suzaku (Japanese) - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird 
   
  Svaðilfari (Norse) - unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  T 
   
  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 
   
  Tecumbalam (Mayan) - a bird 
   
  Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird 
   
  Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid 
   
  Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands 
   
  Tepegoz (Azerbaijani) - an Azerbaijani mythical creature similar to the cyclops Polyphemus 
   
  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 
   
  Tigmamanukan (Philippine) - an Asian fairy bluebird believed in as part of Philippine mythology 
  
   
  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 
   
  Trasgo (Spanish and Portuguese) - Grotesque, mischievous little people 
   
  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) - a giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars 
   
  Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant 
   
  Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit 
   
   
  
  U 
   
  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) - Horse with magical healing horn. 
   
  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 shout to surprise people 
   
   
  
  V 
   
  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 
   
  Valravn (Danish) - Supernatural raven 
   
  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 
   
  Vedrfolnir (Norse) - a hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of Yggdrasill, the 
  World Tree 
   
  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 
   
  Víðópnir, (Norse) - Rooster that sits atop the tree 
   
  Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit 
   
  Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid 
   
   
  
  W 
   
  Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit 
   
  Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits 
   
  Wani (Japanese)- 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 (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) - Goanna spirits 
   
  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 
   
  Werehyena (Africa) - Hyena-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 
   
  Wolpertinger (German) - a forest animal comprised from various animal parts (similar to 
  a Chimera) 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  X 
   
  Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit 
   
  Xecotcovach (Mayan) - a bird 
   
  Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant 
   
  Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant 
   
  Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit 
   
   
  
  Y 
   
  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 
   
  Yali (Hindu) - Lion-like beast 
   
  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 (Himalayan) - Mountain Bigfoot 
   
  Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant 
   
  Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit 
   
  Yōkai (Japanese) - Supernatural Monster 
   
  Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag 
   
  Yong - Korean dragon 
   
  Yōsei (Japanese) - Fairy 
   
  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 
   
   
  
  Z 
   
  Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon 
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  Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit 
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  Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant 
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  Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit 
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  Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit 
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  Zburator (Romanian) - Wolf-headed dragon 
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  Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit 
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  Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon 
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  Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird 
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  Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon 
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  Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird 
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  Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton 
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  Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs 
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  Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits 
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  Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird 
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  Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns 
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  Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls 
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  Zmiy - Slavic dragon 
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  Zombie (Vodou/Worldwide) - Re-animated corpse 
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  Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock 
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  Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit 
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  Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost 
   
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Old School Revival (OSR(ic))/[Adventure Design & Dungeoncraft]/Mythology & History/Big List of Legendary Creatures.pdf