The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the

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record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures, not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.

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List of legendary creatures (A) * Á Bao A Qu ( Malay) – Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor. * Aatxe (Basque) – Bull spirit. * Abaasy (Yakuts) – Iron-toothed demons. * Abada ( African) – Unicorn that inhabits the African Congo. * Äbädä (Tata ...

List of legendary creatures (B) * Ba ( Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird * Baba Yaga ( Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag * Baccoo ( Guyanese/ Surinamese) – Malevolent little people * Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from ...

List of legendary creatures (C) * Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit * Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant * Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid * Cailleach ( Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag * Caipora ( Tupi) – Fox-human hy ...

List of legendary creatures (D) * Dactyl (Greek) – Little people and smith and healing spirits * Daemon (Greek) – Incorporeal spirit * Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) – Similar to a deer or ibex; legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the ...

List of legendary creatures (E) * Easter Bunny (Christianity) – Anthropomorphic lagomorph. * Easter Bilby (Australian) – Anthropomorphic bilby. * Each Uisge ( Scottish) – Malevolent water horse * Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) – Leadership or guidance totem * ...

List of legendary creatures (F) * Fachen ( Irish and Scottish) – Monster with half a body * Fafnir (Germanic mythology) – Dwarf who was cursed and turned into a dragon. He was later slain by Sigurd in the Saga of Nibelung. * Fairy (many cultures worldwide, esp. Germanic ...

List of legendary creatures (G) * Gaasyendietha ( Seneca) – Dragon * Gagana ( Russian) – Iron-beaked bird with copper talons * Gaki ( Japanese) – Ghosts of especially greedy people * Gallu (Mesopotamian) – Underworld demons * Galtzagorriak ( Basque) – Small demonic ...

List of legendary creatures (H) * Habrok ( Norse) – listed as the "best" hawk * Hadhayosh ( Persian) – gigantic land animal * Hades (Greek) – Ruler of the Underworld * Haetae (Korean) – dog-lion hybrid * Hag (Many cultures worldwide) – wise old woman who is usually ...

List of legendary creatures (I) * Iannic-ann-ôd (Brittany, Breton) – Ghost of a drowned person * Iara (mythology), Iara (Brazilian mythology, Brazilian) – Female water spirit * Ibong Adarna (Philippine mythology, Philippine) – Bird that changes color when it finishes a s ...

List of legendary creatures (J) * Jackalope (American) – Rabbit with antlers * Jack-In-Irons (English) – Malevolent giant * Jack-o'-lantern (Medieval folklore) – Vegetal lantern * Jaculus ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Winged serpent or small dragon * Jasconius (Medieval ...

List of legendary creatures (K) * 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 * ...

List of legendary creatures (L) * 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 ca ...

List of legendary creatures (M) * Maa-alused (Estonian mythology) – Subterranean spirit * Machlyes ( Medieval bestiaries) – Hermaphroditic humanoid * Macrocephali ( Medieval bestiaries) – Giant-headed humanoid * Madam Koi Koi ( West African Mythology ) – Female ghost ...

List of legendary creatures (N) Naga182

* Nachzehrer (German folklore, German) – Anthropophagous undead * N� ...

List of legendary creatures (O) * Obake (Japanese mythology, Japanese) – Shapeshifting spirits * List of legendary creatures from Japan#O, Obariyon (Japanese mythology, Japanese) – Spook which rides piggyback on a human victim and becomes unbearably heavy * Obayifo (Ashanti ...

List of legendary creatures (P) * Paasselkä devils (Finnish) – Spectral fire * Pamola (Abenaki) – Weather spirit * Panes (Greek) – Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan * Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) – White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and ...

List of legendary creatures (Q) * Qalupalik (Inuit mythology) – Aquatic human abductor * Qilin ( Chinese) – Dragon-ox-deer hybrid * Qiqirn (Inuit) – Large, bald dog spirit * Qliphoth (Jewish) – Evil spirits * Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) – Serpent-leopard-lion ...

List of legendary creatures (R) * Rå (Norse mythology, Norse) – Spirit that protects a specific place * Rabisu (Akkadian literature#Mythology, Akkadian) – Vampiric spirit that ambushes people * Radande (Sweden, Swedish) – Tree spirit * List of Lithuanian gods#Demonic bei ...

List of legendary creatures (S) * Saci ( Brazilian) – One-legged nature spirit * Sagari (Japanese) – Horse head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū * Sakabashira (Japanese) – Haunted pillar, installed upside-down * Salamander (Alchemy) – Fire elemental * Samebito ( ...

List of legendary creatures (T) * Tachash (Jewish) – Large land animal * Tailypo (American Folklore) (Appalachia) – Powerful animal, that takes revenge on those who steal its tail * Taimatsumaru (Japanese) – Tengu surrounded in demonic fire * Takam ( Persian) – N ...

List of legendary creatures (U) * Ubume (Japanese) – Ghosts of women who died in childbirth * Uchek Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature * Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) – Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby * Umibōzu (Ja ...

List of legendary creatures (V) * Vadātājs ( Latvian) – Spirit that misleads people * Vahana (Hindu) – Divine mounts * Vaibhavi (Indian) – Deadly snake * Valkyrie ( Norse) – Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla * Vâlvă (Romanian) – Female ...

List of legendary creatures (W) *Waldgeist (German) – Forest spirit * Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) – Water spirits * Wani (Japanese) – Crocodilian water monster * Wanyūdō (Japanese) – Demon in the form of a burning human-headed ox cart * Warak ngendog ( Indonesian Muslim ...

List of legendary creatures (X) * Xana ( Asturian) – Female water spirit *Xanthus (Greek) * Xecotcovach (Mayan) – Bird * Xelhua (Aztec) – Giant * Xiao (mythology) ( Chinese) – Ape or four-winged bird * Xing Tian ( Chinese) – Headless giant * Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) – D ...

List of legendary creatures (Y) * Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster * Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet * Yadōkai ( Japanese) – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit * Yagyō-san ( Japanese) – Demon who rid ...

List of legendary creatures (Z) * Zahhak ( Persian) – Dragon * Žaltys (Baltic) – Serpentine fertility spirit * Zamzummim (Jewish) – Giant * Zana e malit ( Albanian) – Mountain fairy who bless warriors * Zână (Romanian) – Nature spirit * Zashiki-warashi (Japane ...

Specific area-related lists

* List of legendary creatures from Argentina *

List of legendary creatures from China The following is a list of legendary creatures recorded from Chinese mythology (中國神話动物清单). A * Ao, a mythological tortoise. * Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea. * Azure Dragon, a dragon that represents the cardinal ...

List of legendary creatures from France French folklore encompasses the fables, folklore, fairy tales and legends of the French people. In the Middle Ages Occitan literature - were songs, poetry and literature in Occitan in what is nowadays the South of France that originated in the po ...

* List of legendary creatures from Germany * List of legendary creatures from Greece * List of legendary creatures from Hindu *

List of legendary creatures from Japan The following is a list of demons A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity. Historically, belief in demons, or stories about demons, occurs in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such ...

* List of legendary creatures from Malaysia * List of legendary creatures from Manipur * List of legendary creatures from Myanmar * List of legendary creatures from Philippines * List of legendary creatures from Slavic

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