List Of Legendary Creatures (I)

Iannic-ann-ôd In Brittany, Breton Breton mythology, folklore, Iannic-ann-ôd or Yannig an Aod (; meaning "Little John of the shore"), are said to be the lost souls of those drowning, drowned at sea and were never recovered. They are said to be heard along coas ...

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Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally ** Breton people ** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Ga ...

) – Ghost of a drowned person *

Iara Iara or IARA may refer to: *Iara (mythology), a figure from Brazilian mythology *Iara, Cluj, a commune in Cluj County, Romania *Iara (Arieș), a tributary of the Arieș in Cluj County, Romania *Iara, a tributary of the Petrilaca in Mureș County, R ...

( Brazilian) – Female water spirit * Ibong Adarna ( Philippine) – Bird that changes color when it finishes a song * Ichchhadhari Nag (

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

) – Shapeshifting venomous snakes * Ichimoku-nyūdō ( Japanese) – One-eyed

kappa Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ; el, κάππα, ''káppa'') is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value o ...

from Sado Island * Ichiren-Bozu ( Japanese) – Animated prayer beads * Ichneumon ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Dragon-killing animal *

Ichthyocentaur In late Classical Greek art, ichthyocentaurs ( el, ἰχθυοκένταυρος, plural: ) were centaurine sea beings with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and fore-legs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish. The earliest e ...

( Greek) – Human-fish-horse hybrid * Iele (

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

) – Female nature spirits *

Ifrit Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet (Arabic alphabet, Arabic: ': , plural ': ), is a powerful type of demon in Islamic mythology. The afarit are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and ...

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Arabian The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. ...

) – Fire genie * Ijiraq ( Inuit) – Spirit that kidnaps children *

Ikiryō , also known as , , or , is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across great distances. The term(s) are used in ...

( Japanese) – Can be considered a 'living ghost', as it is a person's spirit outside their body *

Ikuchi ''Ikuchi'' is a yōkai of the sea serpent type in Japanese legend. It has been described in a two anecdotes collections during the Edo period, namely (1795) by and (completed 1814) by . ''Tankai'' According to ''Tankai'' ("Sea of Stories" ...

( Japanese) – Sea serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil * Iku-Turso ( Finnish) – Sea monster *

Il-Belliegħa Maltese folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Malta over the centuries, and expresses the cultural identity of the Maltese people. Maltese folklore, traditions and legends still live in the minds of the older-generations, and these ...

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Maltese Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Malte ...

) – Malevolent well spirit * Imp ( Medieval) – Small demonic servant *

Impundulu The lightning bird or impundulu or thekwane (or izulu, inyoni yezulu) is a creature in the folklore of the Zulu tribe. The impundulu (which translates as "lightning bird") takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a person, which is ...

( Southern Africa) – Avian, vampiric lightning spirit *

Imugi Korean dragons are legendary creatures in Korean mythology and folklore. The appearance of the dragon reflects its relation to its East Asian counterparts, including the Chinese dragons. Korean dragons Whereas most dragons in European mytholog ...

( Korean) – Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons) *

Inapertwa In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Arrernte), the Inapertwa are the simple, ancestral creatures with which the Numakulla modelled all life (plant, animals, birds) on Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astr ...

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Aboriginal Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: *Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology * Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area *One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...

) – Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else * Incubus ( Medieval folklore) – Male night-demon and seducer *

Indrik In the Dove Book and Russian folklore, the Indrik-Beast (Russian: Индрик-зверь, transliteration: ''Indrik zver' '') is a fabulous beast, the king of all animals, who lives on a mountain known as "The Holy Mountain" where no other foot may ...

( Russian) – One-horned horse-bull hybrid *

Indus Worm The skōlex (Indus worm or the horrible Indian worm), in ancient Greek writings, was a supposed giant, white, carnivorous worm with a large pair of teeth that lived in the Indus River. Etymology Gustav Oppert in the 19th century reasoned that ''s ...

( Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant, white, carnivorous worm *

Inkanyamba The Inkanyamba is a legendary serpent said to be living in a waterfall lake area in the northern forests near Pietermaritzburg most commonly in the base of Howick Falls, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa ...

( Zulu) – Horse-headed serpent * Inugami ( Japanese) – Dog spirit * Ior (

) – Giant creature, with good spirit *

Ipotane Ipotanes or hippotaynes are mythical creatures; a race of half-horse, half-humans. They are usually depicted as the reverse of centaurs, having human bodies with the heads of horses. Although sometimes attributed to Greek mythology, the term app ...

( Greek) – Two-legged horse-human hybrid, (as opposed to the four-legged

centaur A centaur ( ; grc, κένταυρος, kéntauros; ), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse. Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being ...

) * Ippon-datara ( Japanese) – One-legged mountain spirit *

Iratxoak Iratxoak (sing.: iratxo) are the imps of Basque mythology The mythology of the ancient Basques largely did not survive the arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD. Most of what is known about elemen ...

( Basque) – Small demonic servants * Irin ( Jewish) – Fallen angels * Ishigaq ( Inuit) – Little people * Island Satyr ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Savage human-goat hybrid from a remote island chain *

Isonade :ja:磯撫で is an enormous, shark-like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuurahttp://www.obakemono.com/obake/isonade/ and other places in Western Japan. Description According to the ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari'', its body has never b ...

( Japanese) – Shark-like sea monster *

Ittan-momen are a told about in Kōyama, Kimotsuki District, Kagosima Prefecture (now Kimotsuki). They are also called or . Summary According to the , jointly authored by the locally born educator Nomura Denshi and the folkloricist Kunio Yanagita, at ...

( Japanese) – Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people * Iwana-bōzu ( Japanese) –

Char Char may refer to: People *Char Fontane, American actress *Char Margolis, American spiritualist * René Char (1907–1988), French poet *The Char family of Colombia: ** Fuad Char, Colombian senator ** Alejandro Char Chaljub, mayor of Barranquilla ...

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