List Of Legendary Creatures

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• A Bao A Qu (Malay) - An entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor.
• Aatxe (Basque) - A spirit that takes the form of a bull.
• Abaasy (Yakuts) - Demons that have teeth of iron.
• Abada (African) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo.
• Abada (Tatar) - Forest spirit.
• Abaia (Melanesia) - Huge magical eel.
• Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet.
• Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal.
• Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture.
• Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids.
• Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost.
• 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) - An African vampiric-forest being.
• Aerico (Greek) - Disease demon.
• Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story).
• Agni (Hindu) - God of fire and sacrifices.
• 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.
• Airavata (Hindu) - Divine Elephant.
• Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons.
• Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit.
• Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon.
• Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa.
• Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster.
• Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter.
• Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses.
• Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
• Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster.
• Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit.
• Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world.
• Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease.
• Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women.
• Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon.
• Alal (Chaldean) - Demon.
• Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children.
• Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin.
• Aleya (Bengali) - Spirit of a dead fisherman.
• Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver.
• Alicorn - A winged unicorn from the Latin "ala" (wing) and "corn" (horn).
• Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts.
• Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid.
• 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.
• Alu (Assyrian) - Leprous demon.
• Alux (Mayan) - Little people.
• Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku.
• Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world.
• Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku.
• Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon.
• Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf.
• Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit.
• Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag.
• Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster.
• Ammit (Ancient Egyptian) - Female demon with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile.
• Amoronagu (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.
• Angels (mainly Christian, Jewish, Islamic traditions) - From the Greek ángelos, divine beings of Heaven who act as mediators between God and humans; the counterparts of Demons.
• Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid.
• Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit.
• Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern and a scythe.
• Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture.
• Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground.
• Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant.
• Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep.
• Aobozu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children.
• Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki.
• Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit.
• Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian Mythology) - Human-scorpion hybrid.
• Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon.
• Argus Panoptes (Greek Mythology) - Hundred-eyed giant.
• Arikura-no-baba (Japanese Mythology) - Old woman with magical powers.
• Arimaspi (Greek Mythology) - 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 Mythology) - Demon.
• Asanbosam (West Africa Mythology) - 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 (Greek) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food.
• Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid.
• Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature.
• Ato-oi-kozo (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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• Ba (Egyptian) - Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
• Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
• Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
• Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
• Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
• Bar Juchne (Abrahamic and Talmudic) - Bird
• Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
• Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits.
• Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
• Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture.
• Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
• Bakezori (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
• Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers by night
• Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
• Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
• Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
• Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
• Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
• Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
• Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
• BasCelik (Serbian) - Powerful, 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 (Italian) - 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 type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
• Behemoth (Jewish) - Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or crocodile
• Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
• Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
• Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
• Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
• Bergsra (Norse) - Mountain spirit
• Bestial Beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
• Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
• Bhuta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
• Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
• Bies (Slavic) - Demon
• Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
• Binbogami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
• Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
• Biwa-bokuboku (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
• Blue Crow (Brazilian) - a giant amazonian bird.
• Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
• Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
• Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
• Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
• Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
• Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
• Boi-tata (Brazilian) - Giant snake
• Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
• Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
• Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
• Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
• Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
• Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
• Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
• Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
• Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - 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
• Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
• Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
• Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
• Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
• Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit

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• Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirit
• Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
• Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white; 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) - Humanoid 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) - Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus; general term for any kind of human/demon hybrid
• Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
• Camulatz (Mayan) - Bird that ate the heads of the first men
• Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
• Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
• Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
• Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
• Chapa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
• Capcaun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
• Carbuncle (Latin America) - Small creature with a jewel on its head
• Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
• Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
• Ceffyl Dwr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
• Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
• Centicore Indian mythology Indian- Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear 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) - 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 (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid
• Chimbwe (hyena) in Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania) mythology
• Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
• Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
• Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
• Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
• Chochinobake (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 savage with dog teeth
• Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
• Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram
• Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
• Chupacabra (Latin America) - Cryptid beast, named for its habit of sucking the blood of goats and other livestock
• Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
• Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
• Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghost 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 croin (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) - 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
• The Cu Bird (Mexican) - El Pájaro Cu; a bird.
• Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
• Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
• Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
• Cuelebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
• Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
• Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
• Cwn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dog
• Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giant
• Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
• Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid