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Paasselkä devils Paasselkä devils ( fi, Paasselän pirut) are light phenomena sometimes appearing at Lake Paasselkä, Finland and swampy and forested areas nearby the lake. Paasselkä is a lake formed in an impact crater. There is a magnetic anomaly in the c ...

( Finnish) – Spectral fire *

Pamola Pamola (also known as Pamolai, P-mol-a, Pomola, and Bmola) is a legendary bird spirit that appears in Abenaki mythology. This spirit causes cold weather. Specifically, according to the Penobscot tribal nation, Pamola inhabited Katahdin, the talle ...

( 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 toes * Panis (

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 ...

) – 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 A tarand, also known as a tarandos, tarandus, parandrus, or parandros, is a legendary reindeer/moose-like creature with chameleon properties. It was first described in Aristotle's Corpus Aristotelicum as Tarandos (Τάρανδος). It was also ...

( 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 leopard *

Patagon The Patagones or Patagonian giants were a race of giant humans rumoured to be living in Patagonia and described in early European accounts. They were said to have exceeded at least double normal human height, with some accounts giving heights of ...

( Medieval folklore) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia * Patasola ( Latin America) – Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid *

Patupairehe Patupaiarehe are supernatural beings ( ) in Māori mythology that are described as pale to fair skinned with blonde hair or red hair, usually having the same stature as ordinary people, and never tattooed. They can draw mist to themselves, but t ...

( Māori) – White-skinned nature spirits * Pech (

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

) – Strong little people * Pegaeae ( Greek) – Spring nymph *

Pegasus Pegasus ( grc-gre, Πήγασος, Pḗgasos; la, Pegasus, Pegasos) is one of the best known creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white in color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as hor ...

( Greek) – Winged horse * Pegacorn – Pegasus-unicorn hybrid * Pelesit (

Malay Malay may refer to: Languages * Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore ** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century ** Indonesi ...

) – Servant spirit *

Peluda The Peluda in Spanish, or La Velue ('The Hairy One') originally in French, is a mythical beast that terrorized the environs of the River Huisne, France, during the Middle Ages. It is called "The Shaggy Beast (The Hairy Beast) of La Ferté-Bernard" ...

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French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

) – Dragon * Penanggalan (

) – 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 In Persian mythology, peris (singular: peri; from fa, پَری, translit=parī, , plural , ; borrowed in European languages through ota, پَری, translit=peri) are exquisite, winged spirits renowned for their beauty. Peris were later ado ...

( Persian) – Winged humanoid *

Peryton The peryton is a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The peryton was first named by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 ''Book of Imaginary Beings,'' using a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript as a so ...

(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 (

Thai Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block ...

) – Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death * Phoenix ( Phoenician) – Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes * 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 (

) – Carrion-eating demon * Pishtaco ( Peru) – Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes * Pita-skog ( Abenaki) – Serpentine rain spirit * Pixie ( Cornish) – Little people and nature spirits * Pixiu ( Chinese) – Winged lion *

Pi yao Pixiu (; Old Chinese ( ZS) *''bi-qʰu'') is a Chinese mythical hybrid creature. Pixiu are considered powerful protectors of feng shui practitioners, and resemble strong, winged lions. A Pixiu is an earth and sea variation, particularly an inf ...

( Chinese) – Horned, dragon-lion hybrid * Plakavac ( Slavic) – Vampire created when a mother strangles her child * Pok-wejee-men ( Abenaki) – Tree spirit *

Polevik Polevik in Slavic mythology Slavic mythology or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and the 13th century. The South Slavs ...

(Polish) – Little people and field spirits * Pollo Maligno ( Colombian) – Man-eating chicken spirit * Polong (

) – Invisible servant spirit *

Poltergeist In ghostlore, a poltergeist ( or ; German for "rumbling ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. Most claims or fictional descr ...

( German) – Ghost that moves objects * Pombero ( Guaraní) – Wild man and nature spirit * Ponaturi ( Māori) – Grotesque, malevolent humanoid * Pontianak (

) – Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth *

Pope Lick Monster The Pope Lick Monster (more commonly, colloquially, the Goat Man) is a legendary part-man, part-goat and part-sheep creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, ...

( American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat * Poukai ( Māori) – Giant bird * Preta ( Buddhist,

, and Jain) – Ghosts of especially greedy people *

Pricolici A Pricolici (''pronounced'' /pri.koˈlit͡ʃʲ/) (same form in plural) is a werewolf/vampire fusion in the Romanian folklore. Similar to a vârcolac, although the latter sometimes symbolises a goblin, whereas the pricolici always has wolf-like char ...

( Romanian – Roman) – Undead wolf *

Psoglav Psoglav ( sr-cyr, Псоглав, literally " doghead") is a demonic mythical creature in Balkan mythology; belief about it existed in parts of Bosnia and Montenegro. Psoglav was described as having a human body with horse legs, a dog's head w ...

( Serbia) – Dog-headed monster * Psotnik ( Slavic) – Mischievous spirit * Psychai ( Greek) – Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche * Psychopomp ( Greek) – Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife * 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 *

Pūķis Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives. These myth ...

( Latvian) – Dragon * Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) – Troll-like gray-skinned being * Pygmy ( Greek) – Little people *

Pyrausta {{For, the grass moth genus, Pyrausta (moth) Pyrausta or pyrallis (πυραλλίς) (also called in Greek pyrigonos) is a mythological insect from Cyprus. It is a four-legged insect with filmy wings. It lived in the fire like a salamander and died ...

( Greek) – Insect-dragon hybrid * Python ( Greek) – Serpentine dragon {{legendary creatures P