List of legendary creatures by type

• Bake-kujira (Japanese) – ghost whale
• Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – water horse
• Encantado (Brazil) – shapeshifting trickster dolphins
• Kelpie (Scottish) – water horse
• Kushtaka (Tlingit)  – shapeshifting “land otter man”
• Selkie (Scottish) shapeshifting seal people

• Anansi (West African) – trickster spider
• Arachne (Greek) – weaver cursed into a spider
• Khepri (Ancient Egyptian) – beetle who pushes the sun
• Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – shapeshifting giant spider
• Myrmecoleon (Christian) – ant-lion
• Myrmidons (Greek) – warriors created from ants by Zeus

• Jorōgumo (Japanese) – ghost woman who shapeshifts into a spider
• Karkinos (Greek) – Cancer the crab
• Mothman (American cryptid) – man with moth wings and features
• Pabilsag (Babylonian) – Sagittarius-like creature with scorpion tail
• Scorpion man (Babylonian) – protector of travellers
• Selket (Ancient Egyptian) – scorpion death/healing goddess

• Bugbear (Celtic) – child-eating hobgoblin
• Callisto (Greek) – A nymph who was turned into a bear by Hera.

• Ababil (mythology) – a miraculous bird
• Adarna – has healing powers, put people to sleep, and turn people into stone (Philippines)
• Aethon – eagle tormentor of Prometheus
• Alkonost – female with body of a bird (Russian)
• Alectryon – rooster (Greek)
• Alicanto – bird with luminescent feathers which feeds on gold or silver (Chilean)
• Anzû – massive bird who can breathe fire and water (Sumarian)
• Bare-fronted Hoodwink
• Bennu – self-creating deity, Phoenix (Egyptian)
• Bird People
• Cockatrice
• Caladrius – white bird with healing powers (Roman)
• Cetan – hawk spirit (Native American – Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota)
• Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun (apocryphal writings)
• Chamrosh – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird (Persian Myth)
• Chol (Biblical mythology) – regenerative bird
• Cinnamon bird – builds nests out of cinnamon (Arabia)
• Devil Bird – shrieks predicting death (Sri Lankan)
• Feng Huang – reigns over other birds (China)
• Gandabherunda – two-headed magical bird (Hindu)
• Gamayun – prophetic bird with woman’s head (Russian)
• Garuda – known as the primordial bird and the progenitor of all birds; vehicle of Lord Vishnu (Hindu, Buddhist)
• Griffin – guards treasure and priceless possessions (Greek)
• Harpy – ugly winged bird woman, steals food (Greek)
• Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French, England)
• Hræsvelgr – giant who takes the form of an eagle (Norse mythology)
• Hudhud (mythology) – Hoopoe
• Horus – deity (Egypt)
• Hugin and Munin – two ravens that serve as messengers (Norse mythology)

• Itsumade – monstrous bird with a human face (Japan)
• Minokawa – Giant, Dragon-like bird in Philippines (Philippines)
• Nachtkrapp – (The Night Raven)
• Nyctimene (Roman)- Transformed into an owl by Minerva.
• Oozlum bird – (Australian and British folk tales)
• Owlman – compared to America’s Mothman (England)
• Pamola – bird/moose spirit who causes cold weather (Abenaki)
• Phoenix – (Greek)
• Piasa  – Enormous bird outside of Alton Illinois, memorialized on rock painting; last reported sighting 1973 when the bird carried off two children.
• Ra – Deity (Egypt)
• Rain Bird – bird who brought rain (Native American)
• Roc – enormous legendary bird of prey
• Shangyang – rainbird (Chinese)
• Simurgh
• Sirin – birds with women heads, lured men to their death (Russia, Greek)
• Strix – owl that ate human flesh (Greek)
• Stymphalian birds – man-eating birds (Greek)
• Tengu – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog (Japan)
• Three-legged bird (various cultures)
• Thunderbird – (Native American, American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains)
• Thoth – deity (Egypt)
• Turul – mythological bird of prey
• Vermilion Bird – (Chinese)
• Vucub Caquix – bird demon
• Yatagarasu – three-legged crow
• Zhenniao – poisonous bird (Chinese)
• Ziz – giant griffin (Jewish)
• Zu – divine monster depicted as a lion-headed eagle

Chickens

• Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology
• Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk.
• Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France
• Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology
• Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal
• Sarimanok, a legendary chicken of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao (Philippines)
• Víðópnir, a rooster that sits atop Yggdrasil in Norse mythology

• Adlet
• Amarok
• Anubis – jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
• Aralez
• Asena
• Axehandle hound
• Black dog, also known as Barghest, or Grim – associated with the Devil, Hellhound (Britain)
• Beast of Gévaudan – man-eating wolf, terrorized the province of Gévaudan (France)
• Carbunclo
• Cerberus – multi-headed dog, guards the gates of the Underworld, son/brother of Orthrus (Greek, Roman)
• Chupacabra – sometimes thought to resemble, or mistaken for a hairless coyote
• Cu Sith (or Cusith) – Hellhound, harbinger of death (Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland)
• Crocotta – mythical dog-wolf, related to the hyena (India, Ethiopia)
• Cynocephaly – having the head of a dog or jackal
• Fenrir – monstrous wolf, father of the wolves (Norse)
• Gelert

• Hellhound – supernatural dog, bringers of death (worldwide)
• Huli jing or Kitsune or Kumiho – Fox spirits, like Fairies (China, Japan, Korea)
• Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek)
• Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese)
• Salawa – the “Typhonian Animal,” a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set
• Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
• Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)
• Tanuki – Japanese raccoon dog, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
• Vǎrkolak, or “Vukodlak” (Slavic) – undead vampire werewolf
• Werewolf – human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Worldwide)

• Blue Mountains panther
• Blue tiger
• Bakeneko (Japan)
• Bast
• Beast of Bodmin
• Cactus cat
• Cait Sidhe
• Cath Palug
• Carbunclo
• Chimera
• Demon Cat
• Ennedi tiger
• Griffin (Europe)
• Lamassu

• Manticore
• Narasimha
• Merlion (Singaporean) – a fish with a lion’s head
• Nekomata (Japan)
• Nemean Lion (Greek)
• Panther
• Phantom cat
• Sea-lion
• Sekhmet (Egyptian)
• Sphinx (Egyptian)
• Surrey Puma
• Tigris – giant lion of the forest of Bei Ilai
• Tyger
• Underwater panther
• White Tiger

• Fish People
  • Mermaid / Merman – half-human, half-fish (worldwide)
  • Water spirit – (worldwide)
  • Undine – water elementals in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus

• Abaia
• Hippocamp
• Ika-Roa
• Isonade
• Namazu
• Ningyo
• Kun
• Salmon of Wisdom
• Shachihoko

• Azeban
• Gef
• Ichneumon

• Kamaitachi
• Mujina
• Ramidreju
• Raiju

• Bigfoot or Sasquatch – Cryptid, animal of the Northwest (America)
• Hibagon or Hinagon – ape-like, similar to Bigfoot, or the Yeti (Japan)
• Jué yuán – blue-furred man-sized rhesus monkey that abducts human women (China & Japan)
• Satori – mind-reading magical ape or monkey (Japan)
• Shōjō – anthropomorphic spirit, depicted as furred, somewhat confounded with orangutan (Japan)
• Shug Monkey – dog/monkey (Britain)
• Sun Wukong (proper name) – powerful warrior-magician in the form of a monkey who hatched from a stone egg (China)

• Vanara
• Yeren – man-monkey, cryptid hominid, resides in remote mountainous (China)
• Yeti – Abominable Snowman, ape-like cryptid similar to Bigfoot, that inhabits the Himalayas (Nepal, Tibet)
• Yowie – hominid said to live in the Australian wilderness, a cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti (Australia)

• Al-mi’raj – rabbit with unicorn horn (Arabia)
• Jackalope

• Moon rabbit – a rabbit living on the moon (Chinese)
• Skvader
• Wolpertinger

• Ammut – female demon, funerary deity and animal hybrid (Egypt)
• Bakunawa – Serpent-like Dragon in Philippines (Philippines)
• Basilisk – king of serpents, has the power to cause death with a single glance (Europe)
• Black Tortoise – one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations
• Chalkydri
• Chinese Dragon – serpentine creature with four legs
• Cipactli – sea monster, part crocodile, fish and toad. Always hungry, thousands of mouths (Spanish, Aztec)
• Dragon – serpentine, reptilian traits (worldwide)

• Knucker – sea serpent like dragon
• Kurma
• Loch Ness Monster – sea monster cryptid (Scotland)
• Loveland frog – Humanoid cryptid (The United States (Ohio))
• Makara
• Mokele Mbembe
• Peluda
• Reptilian humanoids
• Sewer alligator
• Sobek
• Taniwha
• Wyvern
• Zaratan

• Amphisbaena
• Amphithere
• Apep/Apophis
• Azhi Dahaka
• Basilisk
• Bakonawa
• Biscione
• Cockatrice
• Dragon

• Drake
• Echidna (Greek)
• Fafnir
• Feathered serpent
• Gorgon (including Medusa) (Greek)
• Hoop snake
• Hydra (Greek)
• Jaculus/Jaculi

• Jasconius
• Jörmungandr (the Midgård serpent)
• Lamia
• Lindworm
• Madame White Snake
• Meretseger
• Mongolian Death Worm
• Naga (Worldwide)
• Níðhöggr
• Orm
• Ouroboros
• Python
• Rainbow serpent
• Sea serpent
• Tarasque
• Tsuchinoko
• Typhon
• Wyvern
• Yamata no Orochi
• Zilant

• Afanc
• Ratatoskr

• Rat king; phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
• Wolpertinger

• Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Artemis’ large, sacred golden hind
• Deer Woman (Native American) – female human above the waist, deer below
• Gilled Antelope (Cambodian cryptid) – water breathing deer
• Goldhorn (Slavic) – white golden-horned antelope

• Keresh (Jewish) – giant deer of the forest of Bei Ilai
• Qilin (Chinese) – East Asian chimerical good luck symbol
• Jackalope (North American) – jackrabbit with antelope horns
• White stag (worldwide) – magic white deer
• Peryton (Argentina) – Stag with bird parts

• Auðumbla
• Bai Ze
• Kujata
• Bicorn and Chichevache
• Bonnacon

• Minotaur – monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man (Greek).
• Nandi
• Sarangay – a bull with a huge muscular body and a jewel attached to its ears (Philippines)
• Shedu
• Ushi-oni – (Japan)

• Amalthea
• Aries
• Capricornus
• Chimera
• Dahu
• Faun-a Roman version of satyr. It has a human head and torso and a goat waist and legs.
• Goldhorn – also known as Zlatorog

• Heiðrún – goat in Norse mythology, which produces mead for the einherjar
• Khnum
• Satyr-a goat legged human that is associated to the deity Dionysus. Known to be drunk partiers.
• Sidehill gouger
• Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr – Thor’s magical goats
• Chrysomallos, a sheep with golden fleece from Greek mythology

• Anggitay – is a creature with the upper body of a female human and the lower body of a horse from waist down (Philippines)
• Arion – Talking immortal horse (Greek)
• Buraq – Al-Burāq, steed from the heavens that transported the prophets (Islam, Persian Art)
• Centaur – head, arms, and torso of a human, the body and legs of a horse (Greek)
• Cheval Gauvin – horse which tries to kill its rider (French/Swiss)
• Cheval Mallet; horse that tempts and kidnaps weary travelers (French)
• Chiron – centaur believed to be exceptional among his brethren (Greek)
• Chollima; a winged horse too swift to be mounted by any mortal (Chinese)
• Haizum – horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam)
• Hippocamp – Sea-Horse (Greek)
• Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French, England)
• Ichthyocentaurs – upper body of a man, the lower front of a horse, tail of a fish (Greek)
• Ipotane – half-horse, half-humans, original centaurs (Greek)
• Karkadann – monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia)
• Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge – water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)

• Longma – fabled winged horse with dragon scales (China)
• Nuckelavee – evil elf, ruins crops, causes epidemics, and drought (Orkney islands, Scotland)
• Onocentaur – part human, part donkey (Greek)
• Pegasus – white winged stallion (Greek)
• Pooka – spirits, or fairies who lived near ancient stones, good or bad (Ireland)
• Sleipnir – Odin’s eight-legged horse, which he rode to Hel (location) (Norse)
• Simurgh – like the Hippogriff with the head of a human (Persian)
• Tikbalang – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
• Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
• Unicorn – horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide)
• White horse

• Abath
• Baku
• Behemoth

• Taweret

• Automaton (worldwide) – self-operating machine; most famous example is Greek mythology’s Talos
• Blodeuwedd (Welsh) – wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes
• Brazen head (Medieval legends) – living head of brass purported to be able to answer any question given to it
• Frankenstein’s monster
• Galatea (Greek) – ivory statue carved by Pygmalion
• Gingerbread man – from German folk tales
• Golem (Jewish) – animated humanoid construct
• Homunculus (Alchemy) – diminutive, animated construct
• Nephele (Greek) – nymph formed from a cloud by Zeus to resemble the goddess Hera
• Shabti (Egyptian) – clay model used as workers

• Tokeloshe (Zulu mythology) – diminutive, hairy humanoid with various magical powers
• Tilberi (Iceland – creations of witches from a rib bone and wool for the purpose of stealing milk
• Tsukumogami (Japanese) – objects that come to life, of their own accord, after 100 years
• Tulpa (Tibetan Buddhism) – creature brought to life through meditation
• Tupilaq (Inuit) – large statues brought to life to serve witches and shamans
• Ushabti (Egyptian) – clay guardians/assistants
• Various objects animated by gods, demons and spirits in mythology, legend and folklore

• Alan
• Chupacabra
• Dhampir
• Preta
• Golden Hind
• Kappa
• Kekkai
• Lamia

• Manananggal
• Mandurugo
• Redcap
• Rokurokubi
• Sigbin
• Vampire
• Werewolf
• Yuki-onna

• Argus Panoptes
• Basilisk
• Catoblepas
• Cockatrice
• Cyclopes

• Gorgon
• Hitotsume-kozou
• Lamia
• Lynx
• Mokumokuren

• Amphisbaena
• Cerberus
• Chimera
• Chonchon
• Double-headed eagle
• Dullahan
• Hekatonkheires
• Hydra
• Lernaean Hydra
• Nine-headed Bird

• Nukekubi
• Rokurokubi
• Orthrus
• Shesha
• Penanggalan
• Wanyūdō
• Xing Tian
• Yacuruna
• Yamata no Orochi

• Asura (Indian)
• Deva / Devi (Indian)
• Hekatonkheires

• Kui
• Sleipnir
• Three-legged bird

• Androktasiai
• Erinyes
• Hipag
• Hysminai
• Keres
• Lemures

• Makhai
• Onryō
• Phonoi
• Valkyrie
• Vengeful ghost

• Ammit
• Banshee
• Demon
• Devil
• Dullahan
• Ghost

• Grim Reaper
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face
• Phoenix
• Undead
• Valkyrie
• Vampire

• Baku
• Carbuncle
• Devil
• Incubus / Succubus
• Mermaid

• Nightmare
• Nue
• Oni
• Sandman
• Satori

• Basilisk
• Balor of the Evil Eye – king of the Fomorians, a race of giants, and a cyclops (Irish)
• Catoblepas
• Cockatrice

• Gorgon – woman with hair made of living, venomous snakes, and eyes that turned men to stone (Greek):
  • Medusa – once a human, Medusa and her sisters were cursed to be terrible monsters by Athena (Greek)
  • Euryale – second eldest of the three vicious Gorgon sisters (Greek)
  • Stheno – eldest of the Gorgon Sisters (Greek)

• Abatwa
• Alan
• Boto
• Faun
• German
• Incubus / Succubus
• Maenad

• Nymph
• Pombero
• Popobawa
• Satyr
• Sileni / Silenus
• Unicorn
• Zemyna / Zemepatis
• Simurgh

• Carbunclo
• Dwarf
• Genie
• Leib-Olmai
• Leprechaun

• Sigbin
• Yaksha / Yakshini
• Sarimanok

• Cupid / Eros / Cherub
• Swan maiden
• Madame White Snake

• Melusine
• Tennin
• Undine

• Chalkydri
• Deity
• Elemental
• Spirit
• Angel
• Demon
• Devil
• Yokai
• Nymph
• Elf
• Fairy

• Black dog
• Bogeyman
• Ghost
• Grim Reaper
• Wechuge
• Wendigo

• Shadow People
• Vampire
• Werewolf
• Oni
• Gashadokuro
• Camazotz
• Wild Hunt
• Hell Hound

• Bluecap
• Elemental
• Dvergr
• Dwarf
• Earth Dragon
• Gargoyle
• Giant
• Gnome

• Goblin
• Golem
• Monopod
• Nymph
• Ogre
• Oread
• Ten Ten-Vilu
• Troll

• Basan
• Cherufe
• Chimera
• Dragon
• Elemental
• Ifrit

• Hellhound
• Lampad
• Phoenix
• Salamander

• Angel
• Chalkydri
• Light Elf

• Rainbow crow
• Rainbow Serpent

• Alicanto
• Carbunclo
• Chrysomallos
• Cyclopes

• Griffin
• Gnome
• Leprechaun

• Chinese dragon
• Cyclopes
• Kitsune

• Raijū
• Thunderbird
• Valkyrie

• Afanc
• Amefurikozō
• Aspidochelone
• Bloody Bones
• Buggane
• Bunyip
• Camenae
• Capricorn
• Cetus
• Charybdis
• Chinese Dragon
• Cai Cai-Vilu
• Crinaeae
• Davy Jones’ Locker
• Draug
• Each uisge
• Elemental
• Fish People
• Fur-bearing trout
• Gargouille
• Grindylow
• Haetae
• Hippocamp
• Hydra
• Ichthyocentaur
• Jasconius
• Jengu
• Kappa
• Kelpie
• Kraken
• Lake monster
• Lavellan
• Leviathan
• Loch Ness monster

• Lorelei
• Lusca
• Makara
• Melusine
• Mermaid / Merman
• Merrow
• Morgens
• Muc-sheilch
• Naiad
• Näkki
• Nereid
• Nix
• Nymph
• Pisces
• Ponaturi
• Potamus
• Rusalka
• Samebito
• Sea monster
• Sea serpent
• Selkie
• Shen
• Siren
• Taniwha
• Tiamat
• Triton
• Ondine
• Vodyanoy
• Water dragon
• Water leaper
• Water sprite
• Yacuruna
• Zaratan

• Dwarf
• European dragon
• Gnome
• Goblin

• Golem
• Grootslang
• Leprechaun
• Troll
• Yaoguai

• Angel
• Asteriae
• Chalkydri
• Deva / Devi
• Feathered serpent
• Heavenly Llama

• Pegasus
• Grim Reaper
• Swan Maiden
• Tennin
• Three-legged bird
• Valkyrie

• Amphisbaena
• Basilisk
• Cockatrice
• Ghoul

• Mongolian Death Worm
• Sphinx

• Ajatar
• Bigfoot
• Dryad
• Elf
• Green Man

• Leshy
• Owlman
• Satyr
• Unicorn

• Curupira
• Dingonek
• Mapinguari

• Manticore
• Saci

• Ahuitzotl
• Bunyip
• Chinese dragon
• Dobhar-chú
• Encantado
• Grootslang
• Iara
• Jiaolong
• Kappa
• Kelpie
• Lake monster
• Hydra
• Loch Ness Monster
• Mizuchi

• Mugwump
• Naiad
• Nixie
• Ogopogo
• Ondine
• Rainbow serpent
• Rusalka
• Ryujin
• Shellycoat
• Warlock
• Yacuruna

• Dwarf
• Fenghuang
• Griffin
• Hippogriff
• Kamaitachi
• Mountain Giant
• Oread

• Patupaiarehe
• Satyr
• Tengu
• Yeti

• Aspidochelone
• Bishop-fish
• Charybdis
• Cai Cai-Vilu
• Dragon King
• Fish People
• Hippocamp
• Leviathan
• Jormungand
• Kraken
• Mermaid / Merman
• Nereid

• Sea monk
• Sea monster
• Sea serpent
• Selkie
• Shen
• Siren
• Tritons
• Umibōzu
• Water Dragon
• Yacuruna

• Błudnik
• Bunyip
• Grootslang
• Lernaean Hydra

• Honey Island Swamp monster
• Mokele-mbembe
• Swamp monster
• Will-o’-the-wisp

• Akhlut
• Amarok
• Barbegazi
• Hrimthurs
• Ijiraq
• Jotun

• Qiqirn
• Saumen Kar
• Tizheruk
• Wechuge
• Wendigo
• Yeti
• Ymir
• Yuki-onna

• Banshee
• Boggart
• Brownie
• Domovoi (Slavic house spirit)
• Dvorovoi (Slavic yard spirit)
• Duende

• Jinn
• Kobold
• Tomte
• Vampire
• Zashiki-warashi

• Ammit
• Cerberus
• Cyclopes
• Demon
• Devil
• Earth Dragon

• Garm
• Hekatonkheires
• Hellhound
• Ifrit
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face
• Preta

• Azure Dragon
• Black Tortoise
• Capricorn
• Centaur
• Heavenly Llama
• Ladon

• Nemean Lion
• Pegasus
• Phoenix
• Vermilion Bird
• Yellow Dragon
• White Tiger

• Dryad
• Ghillie Dhu
• Green Man
• Hamadryad
• Jubokko
• Kodama
• Leshy

• Mandrake
• Penghou
• Spriggan
• Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
• See Trees in mythology

• Griffin
• Jackalope

• Unicorn (rather resembles the moon)
• Wolpertinger

• Amarok
• Bigfoot
• Ennedi tiger

• Ghoul
• Owlman
• Werewolf
• Vampire

• Aswang
• Banshee – (Scottish, Gaelic, Irish)
• Ghost – (Worldwide)
• Jikininki
• Kuchisake-onna
• Poltergeist – (Worldwide)
• Preta

• Spirit – (Worldwide)
• Vampire
• Wewe Gombel
• Wili
• Will o’ the wisp – Jack o lantern (English)
• Wraith
• Yurei

• Draugr
• Fext
• Ghoul
• Jiangshi
• Lich
• Manananggal
• Mummy (undead) (modern interpretation)
• Myling
• Nukekubi

• Pontianak
• Skeleton
• Undead
• Vampire

• Zombie

• Daemon
• Demon
• Fairy
• Familiar
• Genie – or Jinn, Djinn

• Monster
• Sprite
• Yōkai