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Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that rides ants
Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Ghost of oil thieves
Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
Addanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Cannibalistic dog-monkey hybrid
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Cannibalistic humanoid with eyes in its instep
Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons
Aitvaras (Lituanian) - Household spirit
Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon
Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster
Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter
Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses
Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster
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 (Phillippine) - 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 Sumerican) - Faceless demon
Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid
Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit
Aloja (Spanish) - Female water spirit
Alp (German) - Male night-demon
Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs
Alux (Mayan) - Little people
Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon
Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf
Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit
Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag
Amefurashi (Japanese) - Child-like monster
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Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent
Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end
Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx
Angel (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) - Heavenly being, usually a
winged humanoid
Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Cannibalistic peccary or sheep
Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the got Enki
Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit
Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant
Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement
Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit
Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit
Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle
Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
Atshen (Inuit) - Cannibalistic spirit
Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid
Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters
Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
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Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
Bai Ze (Chinese) - Sheep-like animal
Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devoring, elephant-ox-rhinoceros-tiger hybrid
Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
Barghest - Yorksire black dog
Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging deat spirit
Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venemous lizard
Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
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Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal
Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of)
the Phoenix
Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bies (Slavic) - Demon
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
Biwa-yanagi (Japanese) - Animated biwa
Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
Boggart (British) - Malevolent household spirit
Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Boi-tata (Brazilian) - Giant snake
Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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Cadejo (Central America) - Cow sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties:
benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will
recover or die
Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or
succabus
Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
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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
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
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
Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese
Shisa
Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
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
Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
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Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses'
message
Death bird (Aztec) - Gigantic bird
Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
Demon - Malevolent spirit
Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, one-legged humanoids
Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Dragon (also, "Wyrm")
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Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
Duwende (Philippine) - House spirit
Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
Dybbuk (Jewish) - Possessing spirit
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
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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
‘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
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
Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
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Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
Familiar (English) - Animal servent
Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
Fæcce (Anglo-Saxon) - Animal protection spirit
Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
Fenghuang (Chinese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish
hybrid
Fenrir (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
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
Frost Giant (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits
Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
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
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Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
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
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert cannibal
Giant
o List of giants in mythology and folklore
Giant animals
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
God - Male deity
Goddess - Female deity
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees
them into stone
Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gwyllgi - Welsh black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
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Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
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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
Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocampus (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lioneagle-horse hybrid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffon
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
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Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
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Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
Ikiryō (Japanese) - Disembodied soul
Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
Imp (Medieval) - Diminutive, demonic servant
Impundulu (Southern Africa) - Avian, vampiric lightning spirit
Imugi (Korean) - Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as protodragons)
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
Inugami (Japanese) - Dog spirit
Ipotane (Greek) - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged (as opposed to the four-legged
centaur)
Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Malevolent ghost
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Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
Jenglot (Malay) - Vampiric little people
Jengu (Sawa) - Water spirit
Jentil (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Jenu (Mi'kmaq) - Cannibalistic giant
Jiang Shi (Chinese) - Life-draining, reanimated corpse
Jiaolong (Chinese) - Dragon
Jikininki (Japanese) - Corpse-eating ghost
Jiu tou niao (Chinese) - Nine-headed, demonic bird
Jogah (Iroquois) - Little people nature spirit
Jörmungandr (Norse) - Sea serpent
Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth
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house spirits
Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
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Kapre (Philippine) - Malevolent tree spirit
Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish) - Troublesome spirit
Karakura (Turkish) - Male night-demon
Karkadann (Persian) - One-horned giant animal
Karura (Japanese) - Eagle-human hybrid
Karzełek (Polish) - Little people and mine spirits
Kasa-obake (Japanese) - Animated parasol
Keelut (Inuit) - Hairless dog
Kekkai (Japanese) - Amorphous afterbirth spirit
Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
Kikiyaon (West Africa) - Large, owl-like predatory bird
Kishi (Angola) - Malevolent, two-faced seducer
Kitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Knockers (Cornish and Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Knucker (English) - Water dragon
Kobold (German) - Little people and mine or house spirits
Kodama (Japanese) - Tree spirit
Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) - Little people
Korrigan (Breton) - Little people and nature spirits
Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
Kun (Chinese) - Giant fish
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Headless ghost
Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) - Miniature fox spirit
Kulshedra (Albanian) - Drought-causing dragon
Kumakatok (Philippine) - Death spirits
Kumiho (Korean) - Fox spirit
Kupua (Hawaiian) - Shapeshifting tricksters
Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
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Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes
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La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
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Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
Lammasu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged
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La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
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
Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
Lenanshee (Celtic) - Fairy lover
Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster
Leyak (Balinese) - Cannibalistic flying head with entrails
Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of
lightning strikes
Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
Lilin (Jewish) - Night-demoness
Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
Lizardman (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
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Maal (Bangladesh) - Malevolent water spirit
Madremonte (Colombian) - Nature guardian
Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
Mairu (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Mājas gari (Latvian) - Benevolent house spirit
Majin (Japanese) - Magical beings
Makara (Indian) - Aquatic beings
Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water
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Manananggal (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly
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Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
Manticore (Persian) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
Mapinguari (Brazilian) - Giant sloth
Mara (Scandinavian) - Female night-demon
Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendent of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
Mares of Diomedes (Greek) - Man-eating horses
Marid (Arabian) - Water genie
Matagot (French) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat
Mazikeen (Jewish) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged
mermaid
Menehune (Hawaiian) - Little people and craftsmen
Menninkäinen (Finnish) - Little people and nature spirits
Merfolk (Worldwide) - Human-fish hybrid
Merrow (Irish and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
Mimi (Australian Aboriginal) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in
rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal) - Death spirit
Minotaur (Greek) - Human-bull hybrid
Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
Mokumokuren (Japanese) - Spirits that live in torn shōji
Mono Grande (South America) - Giant monkey
Monopod (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dwarf with one, giant foot
Morgens (Breton and Welsh) - Water spirits
Morinji-no-okama (Japanese) - Animated tea kettle
Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
Moss people (Germanic) - Little people and tree spirits
Mountain Giant (Norse) - Giant
Mujina (Japanese) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
Mula Retinta (Colombian) - Malevolent storm spirit that takes the form of a mule
Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal) - Water monster
Muma Pădurii (Romanian) - Forest-dwelling hag
Muse (Greek) - Spirits that inspire artists
Myling (Scandinavian) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
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Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) - Nature and water spirits, serpentine or humanserpent hybrids
Nagual (Mesoamerica) - Human-animal shapeshifter
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Näkki (Finnish) - Water spirit
Namazu (Japanese) - Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
Nawao (Hawaiian) - Savage humanoid
Negret (Catalan) - Little people that turn into coins
Nemean Lion (Greek) - Lion with impenetrable skin
Nephilim (Jewish) - Giant
Ngen (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Nguruvilu (Mapuche) - Fox-like water snake
Nian (Chinese) - Predatory animal
Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) - Warrior ghosts
Nimerigar (Shoshone) - Aggressive little people
Ningyo (Japanese) - Monkey-fish hybrid
Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) - Large reptile, possibly a dragon
Nisse (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Nix (Germanic) - Female water spirit
Noppera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh
Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an endless wall
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
o Alseid - Grove nymph
o Auloniad - Pasture nymph
o Corycian nymphs - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
o Dryad - Tree nymph
 Daphnaie - Laurel tree nymph
 Epimeliad - Apple tree nymph
 Hamadryad - Oak tree nymph
 Leuce - White poplar tree nymph
 Meliae - Ash tree nymph
o Helead - Fen nymph
o Hesperides - Daughters of Atlas
o Lampades - Underworld nymph
o Leimakids - Meadow nymph
o Naiad - Freshwater nymph
 Crinaeae - Fountain nymph
 Eleionomae - Marsh nymph
 Limnades - Lake nymph
 Pegaeae - Spring nymph
o Napaeae - Grotto nymph
o Nereid - Daughters of Nereus
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Oread - Mountain nymph
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Obayifo (Ashanti) - Vampiric possession spirit
Obia (West Africa) - Gigantic animal that serves witches
Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit
Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid
Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than
spectral) form
Onza (Aztec and Latin American folklore) - Wild cat, possibly a subspecies of
cougar
Ophiotaurus (Greek) - Bull-serpent hybrid
Opinicus (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid, similar to a griffin, but with leonine
forelimbs
Oozlum bird (Unknown origin) - Bird that flies backwards
Orang Bunian (Malay) - Forest spirit
Orang Minyak (Malay) - Spectral rapist
Ördög (Hungarian) - Shapeshifting demon
Ork (Tyrolean) - Little people and house spirits
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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Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid with gigantic ears
Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline with sweet breath
Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed panther
Patagon (Medieval folklore) - Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
Patasola (Latin America) - Cannibalistic, one-legged humanoid
Patupairehe (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
Pelesit (Malay) - Servant spirit
Peluda (French) - Dragon
Penanggalan (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to
fly around
Peng (Chinese) - Giant bird
Penghou (Chinese) - Tree spirit
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Peri (Persian) - Winged humanoid
Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) - Deer-bird hybrid
Pesanta (Catalan) - Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) - Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
Piatek (Armenian) - Large land animal
Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) - Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
Pillan (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Piru (Finnish) - Minor demon
Pixie (Cornish) - Little people and nature spirits
Pixiu (Chinese) - Winged lion
Pi yao (Chinese) - Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
Polevik (Polish) - Little people and field spirits
Pollo Maligno (Colombian) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
Puck (English) - House spirit
Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
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Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
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Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
Raiju (Japanese) - Lightning spirit
Rain Bird (Native American) - Rain spirit
Rainbow crow (Lenape) - Crow spirit
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Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
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Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon
Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
Satyr (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid and fertility spirit
Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
Scorpion Man (Mayan and Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs,
and six long-necked wolf heads
Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
Setontot (Malay) - Slow-moving land animal
Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull
or lion with a human head
Shellycoat (Scottish) - Water spirit
Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Shirouneri (Japanese mythology) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
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Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
Sin-you (Chinese) - Horned feline
Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a
fireball at night
Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
Sprite (English) - Winged little people
Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
Suangi (New Guinea) - Cannibalistic sorcerer
Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
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Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
Tarasque (French) - Dragon
Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
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Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
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
Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
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
Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing
for 100 years
Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Ambush predator
Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
Turul (Hungarian) - Giant bird
Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit
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Ubume (Japanese) - Ghost of woman who died in childbirth
Uktena (Cherokee) - Dragon
Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
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Urmahlullu (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
Vampire (Slavic) - Re-animated corpse that subsists on human blood
Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost
Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
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Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
Warg (Norse) - Giant, demonic wolf
Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
Weisse Frauen (German) - Female sun spirit
Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
Wendigo (Algonquian) - Cannibalistic spirit
Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit
Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
Wyvern (Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
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Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
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Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Nature spirit
Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
Yōkai (Japanese) - Spirit
Yōsei (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid
Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
Yuxa (Tatar) - 100 year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
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Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock