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Á 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.
Äbädä (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.
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) - queen of the full moon.
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.
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.
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 Oshima.
Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent.
Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end.
Anakim (Jewish) - Giant.
Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx.
Angel (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) - 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 Kochi 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.
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
Bergsrå (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-tatá (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) - ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
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
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)
Chápa (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 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) - 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
Cuélebre (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
Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
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
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 possibly immortal being
Demon (Global) - From the Greek daímon, chthonic entities of Hell often seen as Satan's minions who are inimical to mankind; the counterparts of Angels.
Demigod (Global) - Half human, half god.
Dhampir (Balkans) - Human/vampire hybrid
Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
Djinn (Islam) - Genii
Dilong (Chinese) - Earth 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
Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Drakon (Greek) A snakelike creature with bat wings acidic breath and a paralyzing stare.
Drakaina (Greek) - Dragons depicted with female characteristics
Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) - Fire-breathing and winged (normally)
Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
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
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
Enko (Japanese) Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshu
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
Eerinis (Lithuanian) Lake spirit
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
Fenrir (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
Funayurei (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
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
Goryo (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Grassman (Ohio, USA) - Ape-like cryptid
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.
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
Gyuki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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
Hakuturi (Maori) - 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
Heracles (Greek) - Gatekeeper of Olympus
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hidebehind (United States) - Nocturnal forest creature
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-kozo (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
Hoko (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
Ho-o (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
Hyosube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
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-nyudo (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
Ikiryo (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-Belliegha (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-bozu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
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
Jorogumo (Japanese) - Spider woman
Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth
Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits
Jujak (Korean) - A bird
Jumbee (Guyanese) - Malevolent spirit
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-nyudo (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), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karandoloz- 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
Karzelek (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
Kokakucho (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
Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
Kyubi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
Kyuketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
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
Lauku 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 spirits; the Light Elves
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
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
Maal (Bengali mythology) - Malevolent ghostly mermaid.
Maa-alused (Estonian mythology) - Subterranean spirit
Machlyes (Medieval bestiaries) - Hermaphroditic humanoid
Macrocephali (Medieval bestiaries) - Giant-headed humanoid
Madremonte (Colombian folklore) - Nature guardian
Maero (Maori) - 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
Majas 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 deives (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'i (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 Padurii (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
Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
Naga (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-bo (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
Nü Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Maori) - 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
Nyktukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
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
Ogun (Nigeria) - god of Iron for the Yoruba people (South Western Nigeria)
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
Okubi (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
Omukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid demon, usual having red skin and horns
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
Onryo (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
Oshun (Nigeria) - god of love and fertility
Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit
Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail
Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit
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 (Maori) - White-skinned nature spirits
Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
Pegasus (Greek) - Winged horse
Pegacorn - Pegasus combined with a unicorn
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 (Maori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
Poukai (Maori) - 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
Pukis (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
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". Not to be confused with the quetzal, which is a type of bird
Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
Radande (Swedish) - Tree spirit
Angel Raphael(Christian) angel as seen in book of Tobit
Ragana (Lithuanian) - Malevolent wizard
Raiju (Japanese) - Lightning spirit
Rain Bird (Native American) - Rain spirit
Rainbow crow (Lenape) - Crow spirit
Rainbow Fish (Hindu) - Whale-sized, multi-colored fish