This is a list of legendary creatures from various historical mythologies. Its entries include species of legendary creature and unique creatures, but not individuals of a particular species. Creatures of modern invention are not included.
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- Á Bao A Qu (Malay) - Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor
- Aatxe (Basque mythology) - Evil spirit that takes the form of a bull
- Abada (African mythology) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo
- Äbädä (Tatar mythology) - Forest spirit
- Abaia (Melanesian mythology) - Huge magical eel
- Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
- Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal
- Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that ride ants
- Abumi-guchi (Japanese) - Furry creature formed from the stirrup of a mounted military commander
- Abura-akago (Japanese) - Oil-drinking infant
- Abura-bō (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
- Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Ghost of oil thieves
- Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids
- Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost
- Achiyalabopa (Puebloan) - Rainbow-feathered birds
- Achlis (Roman) - Curious elk
- Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
- Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
- Adhene (Manx) - Nature spirit
- Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
- Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
- Adze (Ewe people) - African vampiric forest being
- Aerico (Macedonian) - Disease demon
- Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
- Agathodaemon (Greek) - Spirit of vinefields and grainfields
- Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
- Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
- Ahkiyyini (Inuit) - Animated skeleton that causes shipwrecks
- Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid
- Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous humanoid with eyes in its instep
- Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
- Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Man-eating Ogres
- Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons
- Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit
- Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon
- Akabeko (Japanese) - Red cow involved in the construction of Enzō-ji in Yanaizu, Fukushima
- Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa
- Akaname (Japanese) -Bathroom spirit
- Akashita (Japanese) - Giant beast
- Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster
- Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter
- Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses
- Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
- Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster
- Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit
- Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
- Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease
- Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women
- Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon
- Alal (Chaldean) - Demon
- Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children
- Al Basti (Turkish) - Female night-demon
- Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
- Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver
- Alicorn - Technically a unicorn's horn. In modern times is commonly misapplied to winged unicorns
- Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts
- Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid
- Allu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Faceless demon
- Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid
- Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit
- Aloja (Catalan) - Female water spirit
- Alom-bag-winno-sis (Abenaki) - Little people and tricksters
- Alp (German) - Male night-demon
- Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs
- Alp-luachra (Irish) - Parasitic fairy
- Al Rakim (Islamic) - Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers
- Alseid (Greek) - Grove nymph
- Alû (Assyrian) - Leprous demon
- Alux (Mayan) - Little people
- Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku
- Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world
- Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku
- Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon
- Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf
- Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit
- Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag
- Amefurashi (Japanese) - Child-like monster
- Amefurikozō (Japanese) - Child-like weather spirit
- Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
- Ameonna (Japanese) - Female rain spirit
- Amikiri (Japanese) - Snake-bird-lobster hybrid
- Amorōnagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima
- Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent
- Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end
- Anakim (Jewish) - Giant
- Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx
- Angel (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) - Heavenly being, usually depicted as a winged humanoid and are said to have wings in Islam.
- Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
- Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
- Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern
- Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture
- Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground
- Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
- Aoandon (Japanese) - Spirit summoned at the end of a story-telling contest
- Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep
- Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children
- Aonyōbō (Japanese) - Female ghost who lurks in an abandoned imperial palace
- Aosaginohi (Japanese) - Glowing heron
- Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki
- Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit
- Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
- Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon
- Argus Panoptes (Greek) - Hundred-eyed giant
- Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers
- Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid
- Arion (Greek) - Extremely swift horse with a green mane and the power of speech
- Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
- Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon
- Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon
- Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
- Asena (Turkic) - Blue-maned wolf
- A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant
- Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement
- Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit
- Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit
- Ask-wee-da-eed (Abenaki) - Fire elemental and spectral fire
- Asobibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Kōchi Prefecture
- Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle
- Asrai (English) - Water spirit
- Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
- Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
- Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature
- Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people
- Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit
- Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph
- Avalerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds
- Awa-hon-do (Abenaki) - Insect spirit
- Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid
- Ayakashi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
- Ayakashi-no-ayashibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Ishikawa Prefecture
- Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters
- Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
- Azukibabaa (Japanese) - Bean-grinding hag who devours people
- Azukitogi (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
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- Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
- Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
- Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
- Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
- Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
- Bai Ze (Chinese) - Sheep-like animal
- Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
- Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghost whale
- Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
- Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
- Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon
- Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
- Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
- Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
- Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
- Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
- Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
- Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
- Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
- Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
- Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
- Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
- Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
- Basan (Japanese) - Fire-breathing chicken
- BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
- Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
- Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
- Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
- Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
- Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
- Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
- Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
- Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
- Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
- Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
- Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
- Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
- Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
- Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
- Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
- Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
- Bies (Slavic) - Demon
- Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
- Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
- Biwa-yanagi (Japanese) - Animated biwa
- Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
- Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
- Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
- Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
- Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
- Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
- Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
- Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
- Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
- Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
- Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
- Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
- Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
- Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
- Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
- Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
- Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - Damned bandits
- Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
- Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
- Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
- Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
- Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate
- Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
- Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
- Buruburu (Japanese) - Spirit which causes the shivers
- Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
- Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds
- Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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- Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
- Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
- Cadejo (Central America) - Cow sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
- Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
- Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
- Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoids with an eight-year lifespan
- Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
- Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
- Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
- Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
- Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
- Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
- Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
- Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
- Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
- Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
- Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
- Carbuncle (Latin America) - A small creature with a jewel on its head
- Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
- Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
- Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
- Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
- Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
- Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
- Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
- Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
- Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
- Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
- Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
- Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
- Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
- Changeling (European) - Non-human humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
- Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
- Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
- Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
- Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
- Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
- Chickcharney (Bahaman) - Bird-mammal hybrid
- Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
- Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
- Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
- Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
- Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
- Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
- Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
- Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
- Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savages with dog teeth
- Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
- Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
- Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
- Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
- Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts of women that died in childbirth
- Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
- Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
- Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
- Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
- Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
- Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
- Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
- Cofgod (English) - Old English term meaning "cove-god"
- Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
- Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
- Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
- Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
- Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
- Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
- Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
- Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
- Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
- Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
- Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
- Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
- Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
- Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
- Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
- Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
[edit] D
- Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
- Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
- Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
- Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
- Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
- Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
- Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
- Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
- Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
- Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
- Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
- Demon - Malevolent spirit
- Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
- Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
- Dilong (Chinese) - Chthonic dragon
- Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
- Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
- Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
- Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
- Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
- Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
- Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
- Dodomeki (Japanese) - Ghost of a pickpocket, her arms are covered in eyes
- Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
- Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
- Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
- Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
- Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
- Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
- Dorotabō (Japanese) - Ghost of an old man whose rice fields were neglected and sold
- Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
- Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
- Dragon (Many cultures worldwide)
- Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
- Draugr (Norse) - Undead
- Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
- Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
- Drude (German) - Possessing demon
- Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
- Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
- Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
- Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
- Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
- Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
- Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
- Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
- Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
- Dybbuk (Jewish) - A spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living.
- Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
- Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag
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- Each Uisge (Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
- Eachy (English and Scottish) - Humanoid lake monster
- Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) - Leadership or guidance totem
- Ebu Gogo (Flores) - Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
- Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
- Edimmu (Sumerian) - Ghosts of those not buried properly
- Egbere (Yoruba) - Humanoid that carries a magical mat
- Einherjar (Norse) - Spirits of brave warriors
- Ekek (Philippine) - Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
- Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) - Hags with awls in their elbows
- Eldjötnar (Norse) - Fire giant
- Eleionomae (Greek) - Marsh nymph
- Elemental (Alchemy) - Personification of one of the Classical elements
- ‘Elepaio (Hawaiian) - Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
- Elf (Germanic) - Nature and fertility spirit
- Eloko (Central Africa) - Little people and malevolent nature spirits
- Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) - Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
- Emere (Yoruba) - Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
- Emim (Jewish) - Giant
- Empusa (Greek) - Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
- Encantado (Brazilian) - Dolphin-human shapeshifter
- Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) - Enchanted princesses
- Enenra (Japanese) - Monster made of smoke
- Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
- Enkō (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
- Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
- Er Gui (Chinese) - Hungry ghost
- Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
- Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
- Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Two-horned, winged horse
- Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
- Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
- Ežerinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit
[edit] F
- Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
- Fæcce (English) - Old English Animal protection spirit
- Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
- Familiar (English) - Animal servant
- Far darrig (Irish) - Little people that constantly play pranks
- Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
- Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
- Feathered Serpent - Mesoamerican dragon
- Fenghuang (Chinese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
- Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit
- Fenris (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
- Fext (Slavic) - Undead
- Finfolk (Orkney) - Fish-human hybrid that kidnaps humans for servants
- Fir Bolg (Irish) - Ancestral race
- Fire Bird (Many cultures worldwide) - Regenerative, solar bird
- Firedrake (Germanic) - Dragon
- Fish-man (Cantabrian) - Amphibious, scaled humanoid
- Fomorian (Irish) - Goat-headed giant
- Forest Bull (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, red cattle with swiveling horns
- Freybug - Norfolk black dog
- Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
- Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
- Funayūrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
- Furu-utsubo (Japanese) - Animated jar
- Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head
- Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar
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- Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
- Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
- Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous monster
- Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
- Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
- Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
- Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
- Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
- Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
- Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
- Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
- Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
- Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster
- Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
- Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
- Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
- Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
- Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
- Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
- Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
- Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
- Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
- Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
- German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
- Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
- Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
- Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
- Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
- Giant (mythology)
- Giant animal (mythology)
- Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
- Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
- Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
- Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
- Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
- Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
- Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
- Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
- Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
- Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
- Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
- Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
- Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
- Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
- Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
- Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
- Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
- Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
- Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
- Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
- Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
- Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
- Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
- Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
- Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
- Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
- Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
- Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
- Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
- Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
- Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
- Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
- Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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Hippocampus drawn from a fresco in Pompeii
- Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
- Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
- Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
- Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
- Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
- Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
- Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
- Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
- Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
- Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
- Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
- Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
- Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
- Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
- Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
- Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
- Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
- Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
- Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
- Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
- Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
- Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
- Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
- Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
- Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
- Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
- Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
- Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
- Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
- Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
- Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
- Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
- Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
- Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
- Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
- Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
- Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
- Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
- Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
- Hob (English) - House spirit
- Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
- Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
- Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
- Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
- Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
- Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
- Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
- Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to seduce men
- Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
- Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
- Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
- Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
- Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
- Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
- Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
- Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
- Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
- Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
- Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
- Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
- 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
- Hyōtan-kozō (Japanese) - Gourd spirit
- Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
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- Iannic-ann-ôd (Breton) - Ghost of a drowned person
- Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
- Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
- Ichimoku-nyūdō (Japanese) - One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
- Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
- Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
- Ichthyocentaur (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
- Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
- Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
- Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
- Ikiryō (Japanese) - can be considered a 'living ghost', as it is a person's spirit outside their body
- Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
- Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
- Il-Belliegħa (Maltese) - Malevolent well spirit
- Imp (Medieval) - Diminutive, demonic servant
- Impundulu (Southern Africa) - Avian, vampiric lightning spirit
- Imugi (Korean) - Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons)
- Inapertwa (Aboriginal) - Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else
- Incubus (Medieval folklore) - Male night-demon and rapist
- Indrik (Russian) - One-horned horse-bull hybrid
- Indus Worm (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, white, carnivorous worm
- Inkanyamba (Zulu) - Horse-headed serpent
- Inugami (Japanese) - Dog spirit
- Ipotane (Greek) - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged (as opposed to the four-legged centaur)
- Ippon-datara (Japanese) - One-legged mountain spirit
- Iratxoak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
- Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
- Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
- Island Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage human-goat hybrid from a remote island chain
- Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
- Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people
- Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
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- Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
- Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
- Jakotsu-babaa (Japanese) - Old woman who guards a snake mound
- Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
- Jasy Jaterei (Guaraní) - Nature guardian and bogeyman
- Jatai (Japanese) - Obi which has transformed into a snake
- Jaud (Slavic) - Vampirised premature baby
- Jenglot (Malay) - Vampiric little people
- Jengu (Sawa) - Water spirit
- Jentil (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
- Jenu (Mi'kmaq) - Anthropophagous giant
- Jerff (Swedish) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
- Jian (Chinese) - One-eyed, one-winged bird who requires a mate for survival
- Jiang Shi (Chinese) - Life-draining, reanimated corpse
- Jiaolong (Chinese) - Dragon
- Jibakurei (Japanese) - Spirit that protects a specific place
- Jievaras (Lithuanian) - House spirit
- Jikininki (Japanese) - Corpse-eating ghost
- Jiu tou niao (Chinese) - Nine-headed, demonic bird
- Jogah (Iroquois) - Little people nature spirit
- Jörmungandr (Norse) - Sea serpent
- Jorōgumo (Japanese) - Spider spirit
- Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth
- Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits
- Jumbee (Guyanese) - Malevolent spirit
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- Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
- Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
- Kage-onna (Japanese) - Shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted house
- Kahaku (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
- Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
- Kalakeyas (Hindu) - Descendents of Kala
- Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
- Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
- Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
- Kamikiri (Japanese) - Hair-cutting spirit
- Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) - Bathroom spirit
- Kanbo (Japanese) - Drought spirit
- Kanedama (Japanese) - Money spirit
- Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
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