An apparition is the appearance of a human ghost or the vision of a disembodied soul or spirit. Typically, ghosts physically resemble the deceased and frequent places the deceased person lived, worked or often went. Dictionaries define apparition as an unexpected and unusual sight, and most people who see ghosts would certainly agree the encounter was unexpected!
In the 1970s, Celia Green and Charles McReery studied a large number of apparition reports to analyze their characteristics. Their results indicate that:
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apparitions rarely speak
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apparitions tend to appear under everyday circumstances
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apparitions tend to be characterized as solid rather than transparent in nature.
Green and McReery reported that, contrary to popular belief, apparitions do not always involve frightening encounters. Many apparition stories recount soothing and reassuring experiences.
Religious Apparitions
Religious apparitions involve biblical figures: The Virgin Mary is one of the most commonly reported religious apparitions. These apparitions typically center around a crying statue or painting.
While Virgin Mary apparitions have been recorded throughout history, perhaps, the most famous recent occurrence happened when the Virgin repeatedly appeared to three children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.
Mary also appeared to six children in the rural hamlet of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina in 1981, carrying the baby Jesus. As young adults, today these six people continue to claim that they receive religious visions that thousands of people travel to see.
There are conflicting evaluations of the apparitions in Medjugorje. In fact, the first Bishop who traveled to the hamlet reported that it was possible to explain the apparitions by natural means.
Paranormal Apparitions
Paranormal means "beyond the normal or unknown." For this reason, paranormal apparitions include an extremely broad category that encompasses any appearance of a deceased human being.
Apparition sightings occur in many locations. The Tower of London, for example, is home to a number of apparition sightings, including:
* a bear
* Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded by her husband, King Henry VIII
* Guy Fawkes
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* two young princes whose bodies were never properly buried.
One witness died of shock upon the encounter with the Tower of London's bear apparition. In an encounter with a different apparition, a soldier fainted when he realized the person he was fighting was a ghost (the knight’s story was later corroborated by two other witnesses).
Apparition Photos
One of the most famous apparition photos was taken of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, in Norfolk, England. Multiple houseguests, including King George IV and Colonel Luftus, have claimed to have seen a woman wearing a brown dress walking through the home. In 1936, two photographers for a country-themed magazine were sent to the home and captured a now famous photograph of the apparition on a staircase.
Proving the Existence of Apparitions
Believing in apparitions is a matter of personal choice and belief, as no one has yet proved or disproved their existence. Although photographs and electronic voice phenomena recordings may suggest that an apparitional encounter occurred in a particular location, modern technology does make it easy to produce digitally-enhanced images that can be passed off as apparition photos.
However, for those who are interested, apparition photos abound on the Internet and in books. Regardless of whether or not you believe the encounters, stories of apparitions continue to be passed from person-to-person, as well as from generation-to-generation, as ghost stories are endlessly entertaining and intriguing.
Poltergeists that Follow People
Poltergeist activity is a fairly common paranormal phenomenon experienced all over the world. While people define poltergeist in many different ways, most define poltergeist to be spirits or mental activities that makes themselves known by moving objects. The ghost, energy or phantom is usually invisible and tends to make a lot of noise.
Causes of Poltergeist Activity
Spirit-generated poltergeists are said to be created by the violent or angry death of a person who places a "mark" on the area where the death occurred. The energy created by the anger or violence supposedly replays through poltergeist activity over and over throughout time.
Many also believe that a poltergeist can be caused by a person's pent-up mental frustrations being released on objects. This psychokinetic activity, or "mind over matter," results in a release of psychic energy. Mental poltergeist activity can result in a shaking bed, moving objects and other frightening events.
Early Poltergeist Reports
One of the first known accounts of poltergeist activity happened in London in 1698. Mr. Ricard Chamberlain wrote about a poltergeist known to him years before in a pamphlet called Lithobolia. Lithobolia, which means "stone-throwing devil," is a typical account of a spirit poltergeist.
According to Chamberlain, an invisible witch or evil spirit of some type tortured a family by throwing stones, bricks and other large items for several months.
Poltergeists that Follow People
Poltergeists that follow people are also commonly reported. In these cases, it seems as if the poltergeist has chosen the specific person to follow from place to place. A classic example of a poltergeist following people is seen in the Rosenheim case of 1967. Annemarie Schneider was a 19 year old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim, Germany when she supposedly began causing mental poltergeist activity.
While the poltergeist activity started in the law firm, it followed her as she changed jobs. This case, one of the first known poltergeists to be filmed, has not been disproven to this day. At the time, Dr. Friedbert Karger, a physicist from the Max Planck Institute, documented and investigated the events.
Getting Rid of a Poltergeist
According to paranormal experts, there is no known way to be rid of poltergeist activity once it starts. In the case of Annemarie Schneider, she was relieved of her traveling poltergeist when the phenomenon finally just ebbed away.
Mental poltergeist activity may be solved by simply avoiding the causes of stress or finding other ways of releasing stress. An investigation may be held to determine the root cause of mental poltergeist activity. This usually entails interviews with family and friends of the person experiencing the activity.
During a poltergeist investigation, experts take notes to find any patterns in the activity before, during and after the poltergeist event to see if the recurring instances of poltergeist activity have anything in common. A poltergeist investigation may be held by a psychic who tries to connect with any residual energy left from the occurrence.
Overall, the existence of poltergeist phenomena is open to debate. There is little documentation concerning poltergeist events, though many people over the years have claimed to have poltergeist experiences.
(from German poltern, meaning to rumble or make noise, and Geist, meaning "ghost", "spirit", or "embodiment") denotes a spirit or ghost that manifests itself by moving and influencing objects.
A pamphlet printed in London in 1698 by Mr. Ricard Chamberlain provides an account of a poltergeist-type haunting that had occurred some years before. Two copies of the pamphlet exist in the British Museum called: "Lithobolia, or stone throwing Devil. Being an Exact and True account (by way of Journal) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or (Devils Incarnate) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the province of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about (by an Invisible hand) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year....", some cases, these types of spirits share aspects with elves and goblins.
Poltergeist activity originates with agents
Poltergeist activity tends to occur around a single person called an agent or a focus Foci are often, but not limited to, pubescent children. Almost seventy years of research by the Rhine Research Center in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, has led to the hypothesis among parapsychologists that the "poltergeist effect" is a form of psychokinesis generated by a living human mind (that of the agent). According to researchers at the Rhine Center, the "poltergeist effect" is the outward manifestation of psychological trauma.[citation needed]
Separate existences
Poltergeists might simply exist, like the "elementals" described by occultists.
Another version posits that poltergeists originate after a person dies in a powerful rage at the time of death. According to yet another opinion, ghosts and poltergeists are "recordings." When there is a powerful emotion, sometimes at death and sometimes not, a recording is believed to be "embedded" in a place or, somehow, in the "fabric of time" itself. This recording will continue to play over and over again until the energy embedded disperses.
However some poltergeists have had the ability to articulate themselves and to have distinct personalities, which suggests some sort of self-awareness and intent. Practitioners of astral projection have reported the existence of unfriendly astral life forms, which Robert Bruce called "negs" (whom we might also identify with elementals). If they exist, these may well have the ability to affect the physical world.[citation needed]
Caused by physical forces
Poltergeists are ghosts that make noises or move objects through the air. While ghost hunters are ghost hunting it is sometimes dangerous if there is a poltergeist around. Some scientists and skeptics propose that all poltergeist activity that they can't trace to fraud has a physical explanation such as static electricity, electromagnetic fields, ultra-, and infrasound and/or ionized air. In some cases, such as the Rosenheim poltergeist case, the physicist F. Karger from the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and G. Zicha from the Technical University of Munich found none of these effects present and psi proponents claim that no evidence of fraud was ever found, even after a sustained investigation from the police force and CID, though criminologist Herbert Schäfer quotes an unnamed detective watching the agent pushing a lamp when she thought nobody was looking. However, whether this is true or not, police officers did sign statements that they had witnessed the phenomena. Other aspects of the case were hard to explain: The time service was rung hundreds of times, with a frequency impossible with the mechanical dialing phones of 1967. The municipal authority disconnected the office from the mains supply and hooked it up to a dedicated generator hoping to stabilize the current. But surges in current and voltage still occurred with no detectable cause according to Zicha and Karger. Others think poltergeist phenomena could be caused by more mundane phenomena, such as unusual air currents, air vibrations such as in acoustic levitation, or tremors caused by underground streams. Poltergeists are dangerous, they may kill people.
John Hutchinson has claimed that he has created poltergeist effects in his laboratory. Also worth noting is that scientist David Turner proposes that poltergeists and ball lightning may be linked phenomena. [2] Some scientists go as far as calling them pseudo-psychic phenomena and claim that under some circumstances they are caused by obscure physical effects.[3] Parapsychologists William G. Roll and Dean Radin, physicist Hal Puthoff and head of electrical engineering at Duke University who specializes in electromagnetic field phenomena, claim that poltergeist phenomena [the movement of objects at least] could be caused by anomalies in the zero-point field, [4] this is outlined in the above article and in Roll's book Unleashed and mention is made of it in a chapter of Dean Radin's book Entangled Minds. The basic theory is that poltergeist movements are repulsive versions of the casimir effect that can put pressures on objects. Thus, anomalies in this field could conceivably move objects. This theory has also been mentioned in the current book on paranormal phenomena Science by Marie D. Jones.[5]
The theory is not complete, however, because it accounts for the movement of objects but not for the strange voices, seeming personality, and strange electrical effects displayed in some cases.
See also:
* Hutchinson effect
Self-delusion and hoaxes
Skeptics think that the phenomena are hoaxes perpetrated by the agent. Indeed, some poltergeist agents have been caught by investigators in the act of throwing objects. A few of them later confessed to faking.[citation needed]
Skeptics maintain that parapsychologists are especially easy to fool when they think that many occurrences are real and discount the hoax hypothesis from the outset. Even after witnessing first hand an agent throwing objects, psi-believing parapsychologists rationalize the fact away by assuming that the agents are only cheating when caught cheating, and when you do not catch them, the phenomenon is genuine. One reason given is that the agents often fake phenomena when the investigation coincides with a period of time where there appears to be little or no 'genuine' phenomena occurring. Another stated reason is that some of the phenomena witnessed would be hard to fake, even for magicians when under the watch of many people, let alone untrained children and non-magicians.[citation needed]
The current most agreed upon hypothesis among most scientists is a mixture of the self-delusion and hoax hypothesis and a bit of the caused by scientifically explained forces hypothesis [tremors, abnormal air currents etc ]
Famous poltergeist infestations
Although poltergeist stories date back to the first century, most evidence to support the existence of poltergeists is anecdotal, which is hardly surprising as the nature of the phenomenon is unpredictable and sporadic. Indeed, many of the stories below have several versions and/or inconsistencies; however there are a few that do not, for example, the Miami poltergeist has event records signed by all witnesses as to the way things happened. These witnesses include police officers, a skeptical magician, and workers at the warehouse. The Rosenheim case is another, with multiple witnesses and unexplained electric and telephonic phenomena.
* An "evil spirit" threw stones and made the walls shake in a small farmhouse. This was the first recorded poltergeist case. (858)
* Drummer of Tedworth (1661).
* The "Wizard", Livingston, West Virginia (1797).
* The Bell Witch (1817).
* The Haunting of The Fox sisters (1848) - arguably one of the most famous, because it started the Spiritualism movement.
* Hopfgarten near Weimar (1921).
* Eleonore Zugun - The Romanian 'Poltergeist Girl' (1926).
* The Borley Rectory phenomena (1929).
* The Rosenheim Poltergeist (1967). (German and most extensive).
* The Black Monk of Pontefract
* The Enfield Poltergeist (1977).
* The Miami Poltergeist, a poltergeist witnessed by police and a skeptical magician who did not believe it was a ghost, but admitted he witnessed phenomena he could not explain. Many others witnessed phenomena including reporters, parapsychologists, and workers at the warehouse.
* The Mackenzie Poltergeist (fairly recent) - Famed for haunting Greyfriars church yard, Edinburgh, UK.
* The Canneto di Caronia fires poltergeist (fairly recent (2004-2005)) - Famed for defying all attempts at a scientific explanation, Sicily, Italy
* The Entity Case allegedly involved a single mother of three named Carla Moran who was being repeatedly raped by an invisible entity and its two helpers over the course of several years.
* The case of Tina Resch, widely reported in the media in 1984.
* A recent case in Barnsley near Sheffield in England, where poltergeist effects were witnessed by the police force.
* In Denver, Colorado there have been several reports of unknown forces positioning toys, furniture, and objects in patterns and strange positions.
* The Thornton Road poltergeist of Birmingham (1981).
* Easington Council in County Durham, UK paid a medium to exorcise a poltergeist from public housing in Peterlee as it was deemed more cost effective than relocation of the tenant (2008).
Although some parapsychologists suggest that poltergeists could be a form of recurrent PK, there is very little evidence for PK recorded on film or witnessed by objective parties. There are famous poltergeist cases where the activity was seen by objective parties and even skeptics
Using Moon Sign Energy in Your Daily Life
By Rebecca Brents
It's an interesting bit of Astrological wisdom that if you schedule your daily activities while keeping in mind the Moon's position in the sky that day, you'll give yourself a little cosmic edge in getting through your To-Do list faster, better and more successfully -- especially on the days when the Moon changes signs. As always, you'll need to avoid starting anything important when the Moon is void of course, but going with the flow of celestial currents in the daily tasks and chores you have to get done as a regular part of life brings that extra boost of help we all can use -- with a sigh of relief ... and thanks.
So, get yourself an astrological calendar. (My hands-down favorite is Jim Maynard's "Pocket Astrologer." ) And keep track of the Moon's position in the signs as it travels through the Zodiac each month. It creates a rhythm that is efficient, natural and often oh-so-welcome -- especially when you face a myriad of options and are wondering what on earth to do next. The suggestions of the Moon-sign-energy- of-the-moment can help you make a choice.
The Cardinal Signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Cardinal Sign energy is focused, intense, dynamic and self-propelling. It gets things going and keeps them moving -- even if it has to get a little pushy in the process. Use this energy for starting new projects, beginning new ventures and making progress.
Aries energy is good for launching things that are important to you personally, where your initiative and direction are essential to your eventual success. Cancer energy is good for dealing with family matters and doing things around your home, such as cleaning, decorating, making repairs or doing maintenance chores. Libra energy is good for dealing with relationship issues, teamwork efforts, matters that require negotiation and diplomacy and activities where you have to take other people into account. Capricorn energy is good for starting professional ventures, dealing with "authority figures" and generally "taking care of business."
The Fixed Signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Fixed Sign energy is relatively calm, steady, laid-back and durable. It sets a slower-than- normal pace and encourages you to fortify, stabilize and nourish what you have already started -- or what you already have. It supports work-in-progress ... and gives you a little extra breathing room to concentrate and center yourself.
Taurus energy is good for dealing with financial matters -- such as paying bills, things that support you and your lifestyle, activities that involve "nourishment" -- such as cooking, meal planning, grocery shopping, and activities that calm and soothe ... like gardening, planning, resting and taking care of yourself. Leo energy is good for self-promotion ... and having fun. It supports hobbies, leisure activities, creativity, romance ... and time spent with your children and brain-children. Scorpio energy is good for clearing out life's clutter and "deadwood," making refinements and improvements, dealing with jointly held property and assets, and making passionate love!! Aquarius energy is good for taking risks, doing something unusual, pursuing ventures that require ingenuity or a novel approach, showing your independence and breaking out of your rut.
The Mutable Signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. Mutable Sign energy is versatile, changeable, flexible and responsive. It supports activities where there are a lot of little things to consider, where diversity is an integral feature and where multi-tasking -- or at least the ability to tend to a changing variety of tasks -- is important.
Gemini energy is good for tasks that require mobility, cleverness, communication and resourcefulness -- like running errands, data-gathering, letter-writing and list-making. Virgo energy is good for projects that require careful attention to details, that help you live more efficiently, that deal with health care ... and "tying up loose ends." Sagittarius energy is good for activities that involve teaching, learning, travel and education -- experiences that ask you to stretch your mind and widen your intellectual horizons. Pisces energy supports projects that involve creative inspiration, artistic expression, charitable impulses, spiritual information, therapy, physical or psychological healing ... and serious "rest and recuperation. "
If you're lucky enough to have days -- or a life -- where you can call your time your own, setting your course with the Moon's invitations in mind can help you find a wonderful sense of "rightness" in your world ... and that feeling, believe me, is a blessing all its own!
Because of the very nature of Magick, each working should be highly individualized and personal.
Even if following a traditional spell, it should be tailored to your specific needs to be most effective for you.
Example: Find a spell you want to do, and change it up a little bit..
Make it work for YOU...
If you think that your lover is not showing his/her interest as much as before, no panic, try this magic.
Wait for Friday, Cos Fridays are under the affect and control of Goddess Venus (21 March) Full Moon season is ideal and advantage
Take your favourite coloured pen, and write your name and your lovers name and surname and take thie in a square, close your eyes and say these words,
Our faith is bounded, we are one, and together
than cut this square and place this into your favourite objects, it could be under your pillow.
than light your instant stick (preferably rose) or you can light rose candle aroma..
this will bring your love back to you..
Three campers encounter a mysterious orb with two occupants
It has been theorized that aliens – and perhaps ghosts and shadow people as well – are actually beings from a dimension of time and space beyond our own. For their own mysterious reasons, they sometimes pay a visit to our plane of existence. They may appear as fleeting shadows, vaporous apparitions, or as creatures piloting strange aircraft. Why do they come here? Are they studying us, or are they merely observers on a recreational sightseeing tour of planet Earth? Did David Crow and two colleagues encounter these interdimensional tourists one spring night in the mountains of New York State? This is David’s story….
I AM A 61-year-old retired sheriff’s deputy. This event happened to me and two other officers one night while we were off duty on a fishing trip.
We were in upstate New York, up in the Adirondack Mountains. It was April 18th, 2004.
We had just come in from the fishing boat and were tying in to the dock. While I was tying down my corner, I thought I saw a blue light flash across the lake. I looked up, and just as I did, I noticed that my two buddies looked up as well. The color of the flash reminded me of those “blacks lights” that are popular with kids, and it appeared to be about the size of a softball tossed into the air.
We watched this light for a good five or six seconds. It started to slow down considerably when it got to the opposite side of the lake. It then started descending toward the ground slowly near a farm silo just on the other side. The farm hadn’t been used in at least ten years. We watched this thing move down and down, until we could not see it in the sky anymore, but we could still see the colored glow shining into the air.
THEY PURSUE THE SPHERE
Being police officers, we decided to investigate this phenomenon. Each of us quickly untied our ropes and jumped back into the boat. We made it across the lake in about five minutes, tops.
As we docked the boat on a friend’s dock, who was away at the time, we looked in the direction of where the light was – approximately 300 yards away. It was now pulsating and no longer a steady glow. It was just behind the old silo and so we walked in that direction quite cautiously, yet very excited and quick.
When we reached the silo, suddenly the glow became solid again and stopped pulsing. The three of us, walking side by side, each with a pocket knife in hand, made it around to the other side where the light was coming from.
What we saw then was something I have never seen, or even could have fathomed
Over the years I have read hundreds of accounts of spirit communication through mediums. People sometimes ask me to name the most interesting case I have come across. I tell them it is the story told by Dr. Neville Whymant, a British professor of linguistics, in his 1931 book, Psychic Adventures in New York.
Whymant, who is said to have known 30 languages, was visiting New York City in 1926 and was invited to attend a séance at the home of Judge and Mrs. William Cannon on Park Ave. Whymant had never before attended a séance and was quite skeptical, even though he knew William Cannon to be a highly-respected lawyer and judge.
It was explained to Whymant that the medium, George Valiantine, was a direct-voice medium and that his vocal cords did not produce the voices or sounds he would hear during the séance. Rather, an aluminum trumpet, which was placed in the center of the circle of chairs, would be used by the spirits in amplifying their otherwise weak or whispered voices. The medium, Whymant was told, simply provided the ectoplasm from which the spirits molded vocal cords and larynxes. Whymant had heard such mediums are expert ventriloquists and was on guard for that possibility.
Like many mediums, George Valiantine apparently began losing some of his powers, during the early 1930s, after a dozen or so years of producing awesome phenomena. As a result, he was accused of being a charlatan and his reputation was thereafter tainted. It is, however, difficult to read the accounts of Valiantine's mediumship by many credible and intelligent men and believe that he was anything but a true medium before his powers began leaving him, or before low-level spirits began controlling him. It was reported that at least 14 languages, including Portuguese, Italian, Basque, Welsh, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Hindustani, and Chinese were spoken by spirits through Valiantine. Moreover, many deceased friends and relatives spoke to the sitters in their characteristic voices and talked of things which Valiantine could not possibly have known about or researched.
To begin the séance, the group recited the Lord's Prayer, and then sacred music was played on a gramophone in order to "bring the vibrations into harmony with those of the spirit world."
"Suddenly into the sound of the singing came the sound of a strong voice raised in greeting," Whymant recorded. "It seemed to rise up from the floor and was so strong that for some moments I felt convinced that I could actually feel the vibrations of the floor." The voice, Whymant was informed, was that of Dr. Barnett, the spirit leader of the circle, who opened it and closed it at will. Shortly thereafter, another voice "totally different in timbre and quality" was heard. This voice, the newcomers were informed, was that of Blackfoot, an American Indian of the tribe of that name, who was the keeper of the "spirit door." Some whispered messages to regular members of the circle from deceased relatives or friends then followed. Mrs. Whymant's father communicated in his characteristic drawl, reminiscent of the West County of England. Whymant was certain that Valiantine could have known nothing of his wife's father.
The trumpet floated in front of Whymant and he heard a "voice" come through in an ancient Chinese dialect: Greeting, O son of learning and reader of strange books! This unworthy servant bows humbly before such excellence. Whymant recognized the language as that of the Chinese Classics, edited by Confucius 2,500 years earlier. It was Chinese so dead colloquially as Sanskrit or Latin. "If this was a hoax, it was a particularly clever one, far beyond the scope of any of the sinologues now living," Whymant mused.
Although he understood the ancient language, Whymant found it necessary to respond in more modern Chinese. Peace be upon thee, O illustrious one. This uncultured menial ventures to ask thy name and illustrious style. The "voice" replied: My mean name is K'ung, men call me Fu-tsu, and my lowly style is Kiu.
Whymant recognized this as the name by which Confucius was canonized. Not certain that he heard right, Whymant asked for the voice to repeat the name. "This time without any hesitation at all came the name K'ung-fu-tzu," Whymant wrote. "Now I thought, was my opportunity. Chinese I had long regarded as my own special research area, and he would be a wise man, medium or other, who would attempt to trick me on such soil. If this tremulous voice were that of the old ethicist who had personally edited the Chinese classics, then I had an abundance of questions to ask him."
At that point, the "voice" was difficult to understand and Whymant had to ask for repetition. "Then it burst upon me that I was listening to Chinese of a purity and delicacy not now spoken in any part of China."
Apparently the communicating spirit recognized that Whymant was having a difficult time understanding the ancient dialect and changed to a more modern dialect. Whymant wondered how he could test the voice and remembered that there are several poems in Confucius' Shih King which have baffled both Chinese and Western scholars.
Whymant addressed the "voice": This stupid one would know the correct reading of the verse in Shih King. It has been hidden from understanding for long centuries, and men look upon it with eyes that are blind. The passage begins thus: Ts'ai ts'ai chüan êrh...
Whymant had recalled that line as the first line of the third ode of the first book of Chou nan, although he did not recall the remaining 14 lines. "The ‘voice' took up the poem and recited it to the end," Whymant wrote.
The "voice" put a new construction on the verses so that it made sense to Whymant. It was, the "voice" explained, a psychic poem. The mystery was solved. But Whymant had another test. He asked the "voice" if he could ask for further wisdom.
Ask not of an empty barrel much fish, O wise one! Many things which are now dark shall be light to thee, but the time is not yet...the "voice" answered.
Whymant addressed the "voice": "...In Lun Yü, Hsia Pien, there is a passage that is wrongly written. Should it not read thus:...?
Before Whymant could finish the sentence, the "voice" carried the passage to the end and explained that the copyists were in error, as the character written as sê should have been i, and the character written as yen is an error for fou. It all made sense to Whymant, and a mystery that had bothered scholars had been solved.
Whymant attended 11 additional sittings, dialoguing with the "voice" claiming to be Confucius in a number of them. At one sitting, another "voice" broke in speaking some strange French dialect. Whymant recognized it as Labourdin Basque. Although he was more accustomed to speaking Spanish Basque, he managed to carry on a conversation with the "voice."
"Altogether fourteen foreign languages were used in the course of the twelve sittings I attended," Whymant concluded the short book. "They included Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Basque, Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, (spoken with great fluency when a Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking Jew was a member of the circle), German and modern Greek."
Whymant also recorded that at one sitting, Valiantine was carrying on a conversation in American English with the person next to him while foreign languages were coming through the trumpet. "I am assured, too, that it is impossible for anyone to ‘throw his voice,' this being merely an illusion of the ventriloquist," he wrote.
Not being a spiritualist or psychical researcher, Whymant did not initially plan to write the book. However, tiring of telling the story so many times, he agreed to put it in writing, asking that with the publication of the book that others not ask him to tell the story again.
Put the name Viktor Korchnoi into an Internet Google search and you’ll get over 58,000 “hits.” The major biographies identify him as a four-time chess champion of the Soviet Union, a five-time winner of the European Championship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympian. In September 2006, Korchnoi, known as “Viktor The Terrible,” became the World Senior Chess Champion. He has been active in chess for more than 50 years.
You’ll have to really search, however, to find mention of Korchnoi’s most interesting and intriguing victory, a match that started in 1985 and took 7 years and 8 months to complete. His opponent was another Chess Grandmaster, a Hungarian named Geza Maróczy. What made this match between the two grandmasters especially interesting and intriguing is the fact that Maróczy had died in 1951, 34 years before the match began.
At his website, researcher and author Miles Edward Allen ranks the case as number one of “The Survival Top 40.” That is, he feels it is the most evidential case of spirit communication on record. Allen draws from the April 2006 issue of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research article about the match. His account can be found at his website, listed at the end of this article. To summarize, however, Wolfang Eisenbeiss, Ph.D. got the idea from an acquaintance. Eisenbeiss arranged for a medium, Robert Rollans, to facilitate the competition. Rollans knew nothing about chess and was known to Eisenbeiss as a trustworthy individual.
Dr. Eisenbeiss, an amateur chess enthusiast, set out to find a Grandmaster here on the earth plane willing to compete with a Grandmaster in the spirit world. Even though he risked ridicule, Korchnoi accepted the challenge. Then, Eisenbeiss asked Rollans’ spirit control to find a Grandmaster in the spirit world who might be willing to compete against a Grandmaster here on the earth plane. After searching, Rollans’ spirit control reported back, through automatic writing, that Maróczy had accepted the challenge on that side of the veil.
Because Korchnoi was frequently traveling and competing, the game was drawn out for those seven-plus years. Maróczy, who played in an “old fashioned” style, resigned after 47 moves. Rollans died three weeks after the completion of the game.
Because of the time element, skeptics might easily question aspects of the game itself. It is Eisenbeiss’ questioning of Maróczy about his personal life and tournaments that provides the most evidence of spirit communication.
Using Rollans’ hand, Maróczy wrote 38 pages of biographical information in response to Eisenbeiss’ questions. Eisenbeiss then obtained the services of Laszlo Sebestyén, a historian and chess expert, to find out if the information could be verified. Out of 92 statements made by Maróczy, Sebestyén, who dug into library records and interviewed two of Maróczy’s surviving children and a cousin, was able to confirm 85 of them as factual. The remaining seven may have been factual, but no records could be found to confirm them.
One particularly evidential exchange between Eisenbeiss and Maróczy (through Rollans, of course) had to do with a match Maróczy had in 1930. Eisenbeiss, who had found a record of the match, asked Maróczy about the player he had defeated, an Italian named Romi. Maróczy replied that he never knew anyone by that name, but that he did defeat a man named “Romih.” Even though the historical records showed the name as “Romi,” Eisenbeiss found a program of the 1930 match in which the name was spelled “Romih.”
"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost," Korchnoi is quoted at one web site. In this case, however, it may very well have been am “old fashioned” spirit flaw that gave Viktor the Terrible the victory. – Michael E. Tymn
For other senses of this word, see stigma and stigmata (disambiguation).
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, "I bear on my body the marks of Jesus," stigmata is the plural of the Greek word stigma meaning a mark or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or slave. An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic.
The causes of stigmata are the subject of considerable debate. Some contend that they are miraculous, while others argue they are hoaxes or can be explained medically. Stigmata are primarily associated with the Roman Catholic faith. Many reported stigmatics are members of Catholic religious orders. The majority of reported stigmatics are female
In some stigmatics, the wounds do not appear to clot, and stay fresh and uninfected; the blood from the wounds is said, in some cases, to have a pleasant, perfumed odour
Cases of stigmata have been reported at different ages for different stigmatics. Some have manifested stigmata continually after the first appearance; others have shown periodic stigmata that re-occur at certain times of the day or on certain days, especially holy ones, throughout the year.
The first well-documented case and the first to be accepted by Church authorities as authentic, was that of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), who first experienced stigmata in La Verna, Italy, in 1224
In the century after the death of St. Francis, more than twenty additional cases of stigmata were reported. Stigmata have continued to be reported since, with over three hundred cases by the end of the 19th century . In the 20th century, the number of cases increased dramatically; over 500 cases have now been recorded. In modern times, increasing numbers of ordinary people as opposed to the usual mystics or members of religious orders, have began to report stigmata. Cases have also been reported among non-Catholic Christians
The first written record of a woman to have received stigmata is in the Medieval Codex Iuliacensis, ca. 1320-1350, reporting the stigmata of Blessed Christina von Stommeln (d. 1312), whose relics rest in the Propsteikirche in Jülich, near Aachen [4], or Georgetta von Schnitenburgs. It is claimed that one can still see marks from the crown of thorns on Bl. Christina's skull, which is publicly displayed annually during the octave beginning every 6 November in Jülich
Famous stigmatics
* Zlatko Sudac
* Saint Catherine of Siena
* Saint John of God
* Saint Marie of the Incarnation
* Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
* Therese Neumann
* Saint Francis of Assisi
* Saint Gemma Galgani
* Blessed Lucia Brocadelli of Narni
* Saint Faustina Kowalska
* Saint Catherine of Ricci
* Saint Rita of Cascia
* Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
There have been historical stigmatics that were known to have faked wounds, such as Magdalena de la Cruz (1487–1560), who admitted the fraud.
Similarly self-inflicted wounds can be associated with certain mental illnesses. Some people who fake stigmata suffer from Munchausen syndrome which is characterized by an intense desire for attention. People with Munchausen hurt themselves or fake an illness hoping to end up in a hospital where they can be given attention and care.
Skeptics also point out that stigmata have appeared on hands in some cases, wrists in others, and the lance wound has appeared on different sides of the body. This suggests some form of internally generated phenomena, based on the victim's own imagination and subjective in character, rather than something of external divine origin. It is unknown, either through the gospels or other historical accounts, whether crucifixion involved nails being driven through the hands, or wrists, or what side the lance pierced Christ's body, and this would appear to be reflected in the inconsistent placement of stigmatists' wounds. However, Roman Crucifixions involved the nails driven through the ulna and radias gap, being just proximal to the wrist.
No instances of stigmata showing wounds through the wrists were noted before the publication of the photographs of the Turin Shroud showing wounds of this kind.[citation needed] The physical appearance of wounds is often linked to the iconography of crucifixion with which the stigmatic is most familiar.
The ratio of left side wounds to right side wounds in stigmatics approximates to the ratio of right handed to left handed people in the general population. This suggests wounding by the stigmatic him or herself.
Similarly, no case of stigmata is known to have occurred before the thirteenth century, when the crucified Jesus became a standard icon of Christianity in the west.
Since crucifixes typically show Jesus having been nailed by the hands, people popularly believed this depiction to be true. As such, if one were to receive stigmata through the wrists, people would not consider it as Jesus' wounds.
In his paper Hospitality and Pain, iconoclastic Christian theologian Ivan Illich touches on the phenomenon of stigmata with characteristic terseness: "Compassion with Christ... is faith so strong and so deeply incarnate that it leads to the individual embodiment of the contemplated pain." His thesis is that stigmata result from exceptional poignancy of religious faith and desire to associate oneself with the suffering Messiah.
In 1998, Edward Harrison suggested that there was no single mechanism whereby the marks of stigmata were produced. He found no evidence from a study of contemporary cases that the marks were supernatural in origin. However marks of natural origin need not be hoaxes, he concluded. Some stigmatics marked themselves in an attempt to suffer with Christ as a form of bizarre piety. Others showed marks as a kind of religious performance art. Others marked themselves accidentally and their marks were noted as stigmata by witnesses. Often marks of human origin produced profound and genuine religious responses. Dr Harrison also noted that the female to male ratio of stigmatics which for many centuries had been of the order of 7 to 1, had changed over the last 100 years to a ratio of 5:4. Appearance of stigmata frequently coincided with times when issue of authority loomed large in the church. What was significant was that early stigmatics were not predominatly women, but that they were non-ordained. Having stigmata gave them direct access to the body of Christ without requiring the permission of the church through the Eucharist. Only in the last century have priests been stigmatised. There is currently a cluster of cases in the United States.
For other senses of this word, see stigma and stigmata (disambiguation).
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, "I bear on my body the marks of Jesus," stigmata is the plural of the Greek word stigma meaning a mark or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or slave. An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic.
The causes of stigmata are the subject of considerable debate. Some contend that they are miraculous, while others argue they are hoaxes or can be explained medically. Stigmata are primarily associated with the Roman Catholic faith. Many reported stigmatics are members of Catholic religious orders. The majority of reported stigmatics are female
In some stigmatics, the wounds do not appear to clot, and stay fresh and uninfected; the blood from the wounds is said, in some cases, to have a pleasant, perfumed odour
Cases of stigmata have been reported at different ages for different stigmatics. Some have manifested stigmata continually after the first appearance; others have shown periodic stigmata that re-occur at certain times of the day or on certain days, especially holy ones, throughout the year.
The first well-documented case and the first to be accepted by Church authorities as authentic, was that of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), who first experienced stigmata in La Verna, Italy, in 1224
In the century after the death of St. Francis, more than twenty additional cases of stigmata were reported. Stigmata have continued to be reported since, with over three hundred cases by the end of the 19th century . In the 20th century, the number of cases increased dramatically; over 500 cases have now been recorded. In modern times, increasing numbers of ordinary people as opposed to the usual mystics or members of religious orders, have began to report stigmata. Cases have also been reported among non-Catholic Christians
The first written record of a woman to have received stigmata is in the Medieval Codex Iuliacensis, ca. 1320-1350, reporting the stigmata of Blessed Christina von Stommeln (d. 1312), whose relics rest in the Propsteikirche in Jülich, near Aachen [4], or Georgetta von Schnitenburgs. It is claimed that one can still see marks from the crown of thorns on Bl. Christina's skull, which is publicly displayed annually during the octave beginning every 6 November in Jülich
Famous stigmatics
* Zlatko Sudac
* Saint Catherine of Siena
* Saint John of God
* Saint Marie of the Incarnation
* Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
* Therese Neumann
* Saint Francis of Assisi
* Saint Gemma Galgani
* Blessed Lucia Brocadelli of Narni
* Saint Faustina Kowalska
* Saint Catherine of Ricci
* Saint Rita of Cascia
* Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
There have been historical stigmatics that were known to have faked wounds, such as Magdalena de la Cruz (1487–1560), who admitted the fraud.
Similarly self-inflicted wounds can be associated with certain mental illnesses. Some people who fake stigmata suffer from Munchausen syndrome which is characterized by an intense desire for attention. People with Munchausen hurt themselves or fake an illness hoping to end up in a hospital where they can be given attention and care.
Skeptics also point out that stigmata have appeared on hands in some cases, wrists in others, and the lance wound has appeared on different sides of the body. This suggests some form of internally generated phenomena, based on the victim's own imagination and subjective in character, rather than something of external divine origin. It is unknown, either through the gospels or other historical accounts, whether crucifixion involved nails being driven through the hands, or wrists, or what side the lance pierced Christ's body, and this would appear to be reflected in the inconsistent placement of stigmatists' wounds. However, Roman Crucifixions involved the nails driven through the ulna and radias gap, being just proximal to the wrist.
No instances of stigmata showing wounds through the wrists were noted before the publication of the photographs of the Turin Shroud showing wounds of this kind.[citation needed] The physical appearance of wounds is often linked to the iconography of crucifixion with which the stigmatic is most familiar.
The ratio of left side wounds to right side wounds in stigmatics approximates to the ratio of right handed to left handed people in the general population. This suggests wounding by the stigmatic him or herself.
Similarly, no case of stigmata is known to have occurred before the thirteenth century, when the crucified Jesus became a standard icon of Christianity in the west.
Since crucifixes typically show Jesus having been nailed by the hands, people popularly believed this depiction to be true. As such, if one were to receive stigmata through the wrists, people would not consider it as Jesus' wounds.
In his paper Hospitality and Pain, iconoclastic Christian theologian Ivan Illich touches on the phenomenon of stigmata with characteristic terseness: "Compassion with Christ... is faith so strong and so deeply incarnate that it leads to the individual embodiment of the contemplated pain." His thesis is that stigmata result from exceptional poignancy of religious faith and desire to associate oneself with the suffering Messiah.
In 1998, Edward Harrison suggested that there was no single mechanism whereby the marks of stigmata were produced. He found no evidence from a study of contemporary cases that the marks were supernatural in origin. However marks of natural origin need not be hoaxes, he concluded. Some stigmatics marked themselves in an attempt to suffer with Christ as a form of bizarre piety. Others showed marks as a kind of religious performance art. Others marked themselves accidentally and their marks were noted as stigmata by witnesses. Often marks of human origin produced profound and genuine religious responses. Dr Harrison also noted that the female to male ratio of stigmatics which for many centuries had been of the order of 7 to 1, had changed over the last 100 years to a ratio of 5:4. Appearance of stigmata frequently coincided with times when issue of authority loomed large in the church. What was significant was that early stigmatics were not predominatly women, but that they were non-ordained. Having stigmata gave them direct access to the body of Christ without requiring the permission of the church through the Eucharist. Only in the last century have priests been stigmatised. There is currently a cluster of cases in the United States.
The first order in the third sphere is the thrones. They are the companion angels of the planets. As you learn about the history of Angels, it is important for you to be aware of the particular throne, the Earth Angel, who is guardian of this world.
The highest order of the highest hierarchy are the Seraphim - the celestial beings said to surround the throne of God, singing the music of the spheres, and regulating the movement of the heavens as it emanates from God.
* First Sphere (Old Testament sources)
o Seraphim
o Cherubim
o Thrones (Gr. thronos) (New Testament sources)
* Second Sphere (New Testament sources)
o Dominions (Gr. kuriotes)
o Virtues (Gr. dunamis)
o Powers (Gr. exousia)
* Third Sphere
o Principalities (Gr. arche)
o Archangels
o Angels
CHERUBINS
Beyond the thrones are the Cherubim. They are the guardians of light, and of the stars. Remote from this plane of reality, still their light touches your lives, the divine light that they filter down from Heaven. Lucifer (Satan/Devil) was known as the 'angel of light, whom God's light shown through' -- before his 'sin against God'
OPHANIM
Also known as the Thrones, these Angels serve the primary function of being God's chariot. They are also noted as being the dispensers of God's judgment, acting with impartialness and humility to bring about the desires of the Lord. They are described as great wheels, covered with many eyes and glowing with light. One explanation given for this is that they mark the end of the first Choir, where the emanations of God begin to take on more material forms and as such exist in a state of transition. Bring God's justice to us. They are sometimes called wheels and in the Jewish Kabbalah, CHARIOTS or the MERKABAH. The occult book, the Zohar, ranks wheels above seraphim, but other sources place them as cherubim, the whole thing being confused. The ruling prince is Oriphiel or Zabkiel or Zaphiel.
DOMINIONS
The Dominions are the heavenly beings who govern the activities of all the Angelic groups lower than they are. Divine bureaucrats, they also serve to integrate the spiritual and the material worlds. Although they take their orders from God, and rarely contact individuals, their work is connected to your reality.
VIRTUES
Beyond the powers are another group of beings, the Virtues. They are of particular importance to you now because they are able to beam out massive levels of divine energy. As more groups learn to work with the virtues, there will be a greater infusion of spiritual energy available on this planet.
POWERS
The first order of the second sphere are those beings who have been known as Powers. They are the bearers of the conscience of all of humanity, the keepers of your collective history. The Angels of birth and death are in this category. They are able to draw down and hold the energy of the divine plan the same way trees draw down the energy of the Sun. In this way, the powers can send you a vision of a world spiritual network. Just as you have a heart, liver, kidneys, and other organs in your body, all of the worlds religions are different organs in the emerging spiritual body of this planet.
PRINCIPALITIES
Beyond the group of Archangels are the Principalities. They are the Guardian Angels of all large groups, from cities and nations to recent human creations such as multi-national corporations. These might more accurately now be called integrating Angels. There are many of these beings involved with your planet....one particular integrating Angel who carries the pattern of a unified global order in its heart.
ARCHANGELS
Beyond the Angels are the beings you are used to calling the Archangels. It is also common to call them over-lighting Angels, since they tend the larger arenas of human endeavour. These beings are from a different family from the Angels. There are many different kinds of over-lighting angels in this larger family. The four you are most likely familiar with are Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel.
ANGELS
The Angels that you're most familiar with are those in the last order. They are the ones who are closest to humanity, the ones most concerned with human affairs. Within the category of Angels, there are many different kinds, with different functions.. ..The ones that you know best....are the Guardian Angels. Because of shifts in their functions and your consciousness, it is useful to think of these celestial beings as companion Angels. As you enter a time of increased light and love on the planet, they will not need to guard you, but rather will be your guides to greater and greater consciousness."
Jewish angelic hierarchy
Rank Angel Notes
1 Chayot Ha Kadesh
2 Ophanim
3 Erelim See Isaiah 33:7
4 Hashmallim See Ezekiel 1:4
5 Seraphim
6 Malakhim Messengers, angels
7 Elohim "Godly beings"
8 Bene Elohim "Sons of Godly beings"
9 Cherubim See Talmud Hagigah 13b
10 Ishim "manlike beings", see Daniel 10:5)
Kabbalistic angelic hierarchy
Choir of Angels Translation Archangel Sephirah
Chayot Ha Kadesh Living Ones Metatron Keter
Ophanim Wheels Raziel Chokmah
Erelim Thrones Tzaphkiel Binah
Hashmallim Brilliant Ones Tzadkiel Chesed Seraphim Fiery Serpents Khamael Gevurah
Malakhim Messengers, angels Raphael Tipheret Elohim Godly Beings Haniel Netzach
Bene Elohim Sons of Godly Beings Michael Hod
Cherubim Strong Ones Gabriel Yesod
Ishim Souls of Fire Sandalphon Malkuth
Islamic view of angels
* Jibrail (or Jibraaiyl or Jibril or Gabriel in English and the Bible). Jibra'il is the Archangel responsible for revealing the Qur'an to Muhammad, verse by verse. Jibra'il is known as the angel who communicates with (all of) the Prophets. He is mentioned specifically by name and as the Holy Spirit in the Qur'an.
* Mikail (or Mikaaiyl or Michael). Michael is often depicted as the Archangel of mercy who is responsible of bringing rain and thunder to Earth. He is also responsible for the rewards doled out to good persons in this life.
* Israfil (or Israafiyl or Raphael). According to the Hadith, Israfil is the Angel responsible for signalling the coming of Judgment Day by blowing a horn and sending out a Blast of Truth. It translates to Hebrew as Raphael. The blowing of the trumpet is described in many places in Quran. It is said that the first blow will destroy everything [Qur'an 69:13], while the second blow will bring all human beings back to life again [Qur'an 36:51].
* Izra'il (or Azrael). Izra'il is the Angel of Death who along with his helpers is responsible for parting the soul of the human from the body. The actual process of separating the soul from the body depends on the person's history or record of good or bad deeds. If the human was a bad person in life, the soul is ripped out very painfully. But if the human was a righteous person, then the soul is separated like a 'drop of water dripping from glass'. It is also noted that The Angel of Death will look like a terrifying beast or demon for the souls of bad people and will look like 'the most pleasant sight' when he comes for the souls of good people.
* Malik is the angel who is responsible for Hell.
* Ridwan is the angel who is responsible for Heaven (Paradise).
* Kiraamun kaatibeen are the angels who record the good and bad deeds of a person.
* Munkar and Nakir are the angels who interrogate a person in the grave about his good and bad deeds.
* Harut and Marut are the angels who were sent as a test to an ancient Israeli tribe. (in Babylon)
John Hutchison is a Canadian inventor known for his claims of inventions and discoveries of a variety of extraordinary phenomena, which other researchers - and often Hutchison himself - have been unable to duplicate.
In 1979, Hutchison claims to have discovered a number of unusual phenomena, while trying to duplicate experiments done by Nikola Tesla. He refers to several of these phenomena jointly under the name "the Hutchison effect", including:
1. levitation of heavy objects.
2. fusion of dissimilar materials such as metal and wood, while lacking any displacement.
3. the anomalous heating of metals without burning adjacent material.
4. the spontaneous fracturing of metals.
5. changes in the crystalline structure and physical properties of metals.
6. disappearance of metal samples.
Hutchison has maintained a number of websites over the years, in which he posts videos and pictures of the purported effect, including short low-quality clips of objects flying around or rising from the ground, and metallic objects moving without being touched. He has offered mail-order VHS tapes of the effect for $100 each,though videos are now sold exclusively through Gryphon Productions.
Supporters like Mark Solis, his former webmaster, maintain that none of these effects can be the result of known physical phenomena, such as electromagnetism. Hutchison and his supporters surmise that these phenomena arise from zero-point energy or the Casimir effect.
It has been said[who?] that researchers at NASA and the Max Planck Institute have attempted to reproduce some of Hutchison's experiments, but that so far none has succeeded. Indeed, NASA's Marc Millis remarks that Hutchison himself appears unable to reproduce his own experiments. Hutchison claims that this is due to the destruction of his lab by the military, or because he has been otherwise prevented legally by the government from repeating his experiments.
Canadian inventor and fringe physicist Mel Winfield says that it was solely through his theories that The Hutchison Effect came into being. He has published evidence including signed contracts, letters, and communications from John Hutchison himself on his website.[citation needed]
Military interest
According to Hutchison and United States Col. John Alexander,[6] military scientists from the United States have been working with him because of the effect's military potential. In the documentary Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point, he states that military scientists were impressed with the effects, but were not able to replicate them on their own without assistance
Hutchison later accused the military of coercing the Canadian government into seizing his lab so that it could be passed on to Lockheed Martin Skunkworks for research purposes. Journalist and author Nick Cook later wrote that this had been confirmed by a high-ranking friend of his in the Skunkworks. Boyd Bushman, retired Lockheed Martin senior engineer, later confirmed this in an interview in Nick Cook's book The Hunt for Zero Point.
Hutchison claims that "at the end of the cold war" a "military intelligence service" (not otherwise specified) destroyed his lab in Vancouver while he was traveling in Europe. To support this allegation, Hutchison has presented photos of letters allegedly written by various scientific and government organizations, as well as a letter allegedly written by Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein. However, it is far from clear what relevance these letters, whose provenance is unverified, might have.
Charges of fakery
A "levitating" toy UFO. A line, said by critics to be string supporting the model, can be seen moving with the UFO at the top left of the screen.
A "levitating" toy UFO. A line, said by critics to be string supporting the model, can be seen moving with the UFO at the top left of the screen.
One set of videos posted to an antigravity website (and later taken down) shows closeups of a toy UFO bouncing around, and then shots of the toy gyrating wildly in the air. When it was pointed out that the movement of the toy was consistent with being supported by a string, and a moving wire or string could be seen in the video, Hutchison claimed it was a power supply:
The string is not string but #32-gauge double polythermalized wire on a takeup up reel with 20 to 50000 volts DC. The the main apparatus was turned on, causing the toy plastic ufo to fly all about in amazing gyrations. This was a pretest to gryphon films airing this fall for fox TV. I did not need the extra high voltage 2000 time period so the toy levitated without a high voltage hook up during the filming for gryphon there was a string on the toy no high-voltage dc but interesting movements.
—John Hutchison, quoted at the American Antigravity website
Hutchison later admitted to being "creative" with the footage, citing pressure from the Discovery Channel to create material for the show and an inability to legally reproduce the original effect, according to Tim Ventura of American Antigravity.
Image of ice cream "levitating" from a cup, from a documentary investigating the effect.
Image of ice cream "levitating" from a cup, from a documentary investigating the effect.
In 2005, Hutchison admitted that he hadn't actually reproduced his effect since approximately 1991, though he says the earlier levitation footage from the 1980s is genuine. These videos show objects suddenly flying upwards and never coming back down, and are consistent with objects falling from an upside-down stage filmed with an upside-down video camera.
Hutchison later rejected charges of fakery, and maintains that his "effect" has been demonstrated many times in the presence of scientists and, he says, members of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command.
In March 2006, Hutchison states that he managed to reproduce the effect in his Ash St., New Westminster apartment for National Geographic, as well as for author Harold Berndt, whose film of the event can be found on the American Antigravity website.
Scientific opinion
In a posting to the sci.physics.research newsgroup, Marc Millis, who ran the now-defunct Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program for NASA, wrote:
This "Hutchison Effect" has been claimed for years, without any independent verification — ever. In fact, its originator can't even replicate it on demand. This has been investigated more than once, been part of documentaries on The Discovery Channel, but still never seems to pass critical muster. This is in the category of folklore. In general, the "American Antigravity" web site caters to such folklore and its enthusiasts.
—Marc G. Millis, Video Footage Of Antigravity ?
Quantum batteries
Hutchison also says that he has invented new power sources, which he calls "Crystal Energy Cells" or "Hiroshima cells". He claims they obtain zero-point energy from the quantum vacuum using the Casimir effect. In one video a battery is described by John as including Rochelle salts, gallium, iron pyrite, and germanium. Hutchison claims that his work "explains the technology behind UFOs".[citation needed]
These batteries have been labeled by some[who?] as over-unity devices. Mainstream physicists point out that over-unity is just another word for a perpetual-motion machine, and that zero-point energy and the Casimir effect, while legitimate scientific concepts, are often invoked by people seeking to mislead the public or tap into free energy, in defiance of the laws of thermodynamics.
Media coverage
Hutchison and his claims are regularly featured and discussed in various fringe science newsletters and websites, such as:
* American Antigravity a fringe website devoted to antigravity claims, lifters, homemade electromagnetic weapons, etc.
* the UFO Resource Center, a website devoted to ufology
* Space Telescopes, a website which features a mixture of writings including such topics as the Hubble observatory and the Hutchison effect
* World Mysteries, one of many websites which discuss a wide range of fringe, new age, and paranormal topics
He has been profiled along with his claims in several documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel (Is It Real?) and Nippon Television.
Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost
* Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
* Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal
* Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that ride ants
* Abumi-guchi (Japanese) - Furry creature formed from the stirrup of a mounted military commander
* Abura-akago (Japanese) - Oil-drinking infant
* Abura-bō (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
* Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Ghost of oil thieves
* Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
* Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
* Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
* Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
* Adze (Ewe people) - African vampiric forest being
* Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
* Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
* Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
* Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid
* Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropohagous humanoid with eyes in its instep
* Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
* Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons
* Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit
* Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon
* Akabeko (Japanese) - Red cow involved in the construction of Enzō-ji in Yanaizu, Fukushima
* Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa
* Akaname (Japanese) -Bathroom spirit
* Akashita (Japanese) - Giant beast
* 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) - Demon
* Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children
* Al Basti (Turkish) - Female night-demon
* Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
* Alerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds
* Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver
* Alicorn - Technically a unicorn's horn. In modern times is commonly misapplied to winged unicorns
* Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts
* Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid
* Allu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Faceless demon
* Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid
* Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit
* Aloja (Spanish) - 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
* 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
* Amefurashi (Japanese) - Child-like monster
* Amefurikozō (Japanese) - Child-like weather spirit
* Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
* Ameonna (Japanese) - Female rain spirit
* Amikiri (Japanese) - Snake-bird-lobster hybrid
* Amorōnagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima
* Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent
* Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end
* Anakim (Jewish) - Giant
* Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx
* Angel (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) - Heavenly being, usually a winged humanoid
* Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
* Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern
* Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture
* Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
* Aoandon (Japanese) - Spirit summoned at the end of a story-telling contest
* Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep
* Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children
* Aonyōbō (Japanese) - Female ghost who lurks in an abandoned imperial palace
* Aosaginohi (Japanese) - Glowing heron
* 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
* Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers
* Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid
* Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
* Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon
* Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon
* Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
* 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 Kōchi Prefecture
* Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle
* Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
* Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
* Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people
* Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit
* Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph
* 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
Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
* Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
* Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
* Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
* Bai She (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
* Bai Ze (Chinese) - Sheep-like animal
* Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghost whale
* Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
* Bakezōri (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
* Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
* Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
* Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
* Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
* Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
* Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
* Basan (Japanese) - Fire-breathing chicken
* BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very 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 (Medieval Bestiaries) - 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 specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal
* Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
* Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
* Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
* Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
* Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
* Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
* Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
* Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
* Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropohagous, partially invisible monster
* Bies (Slavic) - Demon
* Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
* Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
* Biwa-yanagi (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
* Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
* Boggart (British) - 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
* 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) - Damned bandits
* Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
* Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
* Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
* Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
* Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
* Buruburu (Japanese) - Spirit which causes the shivers
* Byaka (Russian) - Furry creature
* Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds
* Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
* Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
* Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
* Cadejo (Central America) - Cow sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white, and 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
* Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
* Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
* Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
* Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
* Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
* Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
* Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
* Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
* Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
* Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
* Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
* Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
* Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
* Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
* Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
* Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
* 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) - Non-human 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 (Bahaman) - Bird-mammal hybrid
* Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
* Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
* Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
* Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
* Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
* Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
* Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
* Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
* Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
* Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
* Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
* Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts 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
* Cofgodas (Anglo-Saxon) - House sprit
* 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
* 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
* Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
* Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
* Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
* Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
* Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
* Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
* Ichimoku-nyūdō (Japanese) - One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
* Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
* Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
* Ichthyocentaur (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
* Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
* Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
* Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
* Ikiryō (Japanese) - Disembodied soul
* Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
* Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
* 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
* 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 servents
* Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
* Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
* Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
* Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Malevolent ghost
* Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
* Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
* Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
* Kage-onna (Japanese) - Shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted house
* 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-nyūdō (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) - 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
* Karzełek (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-akago (Japanese) - Infant monster that lurks near rivers and drowns people
* 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
* Kerakera-onna (Japanese) - Giant, cackling woman who appears in the sky
* Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
* Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
* Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
* Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
* Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
* Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
* Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
* Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
* Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
* 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
* Kokakuchō (Japanese) - Ubume bird
* Koma-inu (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
* Kosode-no-te (Japanese) - Short-sleeved kimono with its own hands
* Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
* Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
* Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
* Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Headless ghost
* 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
* Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
* Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
* Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
* Kyōkotsu (Japanese) - Ghost of a corpse discarded in a well
* Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
* Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
* Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.
A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.
* La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
* Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
* La chusa (Spanish) - Death spirit
* Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
* Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
* Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
* La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
* Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm (possibly a dragon)
* Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
* Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
* Lammasu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* 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
* Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
* Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
* Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
* Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
* Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
* Lenanshee (Celtic) - Fairy lover
* 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
* Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
* 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
* Lizardman (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
* Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
* Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
* Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
* Lóng - Chinese dragon
* Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
* Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
* Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
* Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
* Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
* Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
* Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
* Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
* Maa-alused (Estonian) - Subterranean spirit
* Maal (Bangladesh) - Malevolent water spirit
* Madremonte (Colombian) - Nature guardian
* Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
* Magog (English) - Giant protector of London
* Maha-pudma (Hindu) - Giant elephant that holds up the world
* Maikubi (Japanese) - Quarreling heads of three dead miscreants
* Mairu (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
* Mājas gari (Latvian) - Benevolent house spirit
* Majin (Japanese) - Magical beings
* Makara (Indian) - Aquatic beings
* Makura-gaeshi (Japanese) - Pillow-moving spirit
* Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water spirits
* Manananggal (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly around
* Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
* Manes (Roman) - Ancestral spirits
* Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
* Manticore (Persian) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
* Mapinguari (Brazilian) - Giant sloth
* Mara (Scandinavian) - Female night-demon
* Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
* Mares of Diomedes (Greek) - Man-eating horses
* Marid (Arabian) - Water genie
* Maro deivės (Lithuanian) - Disease spirits
* Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting toad spirit
* Matagot (French) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat
* Mayura (Hindu) - Peacock spirit
* Mazikeen (Jewish) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
* Mbói Tu'ĩ (Guaraní) - Snake-parrot hybrid
* Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
* Mekurabe (Japanese) - Multiplying skulls that menaced Taira no Kiyomori in his courtyard
* Meliae (Greek) - Ash tree nymph
* Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged mermaid
* Menehune (Hawaiian) - Little people and craftsmen
* Menninkäinen (Finnish) - Little people and nature spirits
* Merfolk (Worldwide) - Human-fish hybrid
* Merlion (Singapore) - Combination of a lion and a fish, the symbol of Singapore.
* Merrow (Irish and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
* Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki) - Ice-hearted wizards
* Miage-nyūdō (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
* Mikoshi-nyūdō(Japanese) (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
* Mimi (Australian Aboriginal) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
* Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal) - Death spirit
* Minotaur (Greek) - Human-bull hybrid
* Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit
* Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Mizuchi (Japanese) - Water dragon
* Mohan (Latin America) - Nature spirit
* Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
* Mokumokuren (Japanese) - Spirits that live in torn shōji
* Momonjii (Japanese) - Old man that meets victims at the fork of every road
* Moñái (Guaraní) - Giant snake with antennae
* Monocerus (Medieval Bestiary) - 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
* Mora (Slavic) - Disembodied spirit
* Morgens (Breton and Welsh) - Water spirits
* Morinji-no-okama (Japanese) - Animated tea kettle
* Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
* Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
* Mōryō (Japanese) - Long-eared, corpse-eating spirit
* Moss people (Germanic) - Little people and tree spirits
* Mountain Giant (Norse) - Giant
* Mujina (Japanese) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
* Mula Retinta (Colombian) - Malevolent storm spirit that takes the form of a mule
* Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal) - Water monster
* Muma Pădurii (Romanian) - Forest-dwelling hag
* Muscaliet (Medieval Bestiary) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid
* Muse (Greek) - Spirits that inspire artists
* Myling (Scandinavian) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
* Myōbu (Japanese) - Fox spirit
* Myrmecoleon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid
A Hoysala sculpture of a Naga couple. Halebidu.
A Hoysala sculpture of a Naga couple. Halebidu.
* Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
* Nāga (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
* Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
* Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
* Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
* Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
* Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
* Narikama (Japanese) - Kettle spirit
* 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
* Nebutori (Japanese) - Mystical disease which causes women to grow fat and lethargic
* 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-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
* Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
* Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
* Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
* Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
* Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
* Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
* Nuppefuhofu (Japanese) - Animated lump of decaying human flesh
* Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh
* Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Creature who sneaks into houses on busy evenings
* Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
* Nuribotoke (Japanese) - Animated corpse with blackened flesh and dangling eyeballs
* Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an endless wall
* Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
* Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
* Nyūbachibō (Japanese) - Mortar 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
# Oboro-guruma (Japanese) - Ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver
# Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus
# Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit
# Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling
# Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites
# Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid
# Ohaguro-bettari (Japanese) - Female ghost lacking all facial features save for a large, black-toothed smile
# Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
# Ōkamuro (Japanese) - Giant face which appears at the door
# Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl
# Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit
# Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore
# Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
# Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
# Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire
# Onikuma (Japanese) - Monstrous bear
# Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses
# Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid
# Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon
# Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than 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
# Otoroshi (Japanese) - Hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples
# Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit
# Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail
# Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit
A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton. Wings were not present in the original painting.
A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton. Wings were not present in the original painting.
* Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
* Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
* Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
* 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 (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
* 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
* Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
* Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
* 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) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
* Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
* Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Puck (English) - House spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
* Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
* Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
* Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
* Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
* Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
* Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirits
* Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
* Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
* 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
* Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
* Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
* Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
* Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
* Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
* Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
* Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
* Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
* Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
* Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
* Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
* Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
* Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
* Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
* Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
* Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
* Ryū - Japanese dragon
Saci Pererê
Saci Pererê
* Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
* Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
* Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
* Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
* Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon
* Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
* Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
* Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
* Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
* Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
* Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
* Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
* Scorpion Man (Mayan and Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
* Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
* Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
* Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
* Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
* Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
* Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
* Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware
* Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
* Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
* Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* Shellycoat (Scottish) - Water spirit
* Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
* Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
* Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages
* Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
* Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
* Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
* Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
* Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
* Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
* Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
* Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
* Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
* Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni
* Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
* Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
* Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
* Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
* Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
* Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
* Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
* Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
* Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
* Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
* Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
* Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
* Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
* Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
* Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
* Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
* Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
* Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
* Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
* Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (English) - Winged little people
* Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
* Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
* Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
* Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
* Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
* Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
* Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
* Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
* Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
* Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
* Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
* Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
* Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
* The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
* Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
* Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
* Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
* Ichimoku-nyūdō (Japanese) - One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
* Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
* Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
* Ichthyocentaur (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
* Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
* Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
* Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
* Ikiryō (Japanese) - Disembodied soul
* Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
* Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
* 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
* 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 servents
* Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
* Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
* Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
* Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Malevolent ghost
* Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
* Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
* Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
* Kage-onna (Japanese) - Shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted house
* 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-nyūdō (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) - 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
* Karzełek (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-akago (Japanese) - Infant monster that lurks near rivers and drowns people
* 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
* Kerakera-onna (Japanese) - Giant, cackling woman who appears in the sky
* Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
* Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
* Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
* Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
* Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
* Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
* Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
* Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
* Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
* 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
* Kokakuchō (Japanese) - Ubume bird
* Koma-inu (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
* Kosode-no-te (Japanese) - Short-sleeved kimono with its own hands
* Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
* Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
* Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
* Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Headless ghost
* 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
* Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
* Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
* Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
* Kyōkotsu (Japanese) - Ghost of a corpse discarded in a well
* Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
* Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
* Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.
A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.
* La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
* Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
* La chusa (Spanish) - Death spirit
* Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
* Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
* Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
* La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
* Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm (possibly a dragon)
* Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
* Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
* Lammasu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* 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
* Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
* Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
* Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
* Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
* Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
* Lenanshee (Celtic) - Fairy lover
* 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
* Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
* 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
* Lizardman (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
* Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
* Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
* Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
* Lóng - Chinese dragon
* Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
* Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
* Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
* Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
* Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
* Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
* Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
* Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
* Maa-alused (Estonian) - Subterranean spirit
* Maal (Bangladesh) - Malevolent water spirit
* Madremonte (Colombian) - Nature guardian
* Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
* Magog (English) - Giant protector of London
* Maha-pudma (Hindu) - Giant elephant that holds up the world
* Maikubi (Japanese) - Quarreling heads of three dead miscreants
* Mairu (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
* Mājas gari (Latvian) - Benevolent house spirit
* Majin (Japanese) - Magical beings
* Makara (Indian) - Aquatic beings
* Makura-gaeshi (Japanese) - Pillow-moving spirit
* Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water spirits
* Manananggal (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly around
* Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
* Manes (Roman) - Ancestral spirits
* Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
* Manticore (Persian) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
* Mapinguari (Brazilian) - Giant sloth
* Mara (Scandinavian) - Female night-demon
* Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
* Mares of Diomedes (Greek) - Man-eating horses
* Marid (Arabian) - Water genie
* Maro deivės (Lithuanian) - Disease spirits
* Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting toad spirit
* Matagot (French) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat
* Mayura (Hindu) - Peacock spirit
* Mazikeen (Jewish) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
* Mbói Tu'ĩ (Guaraní) - Snake-parrot hybrid
* Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
* Mekurabe (Japanese) - Multiplying skulls that menaced Taira no Kiyomori in his courtyard
* Meliae (Greek) - Ash tree nymph
* Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged mermaid
* Menehune (Hawaiian) - Little people and craftsmen
* Menninkäinen (Finnish) - Little people and nature spirits
* Merfolk (Worldwide) - Human-fish hybrid
* Merlion (Singapore) - Combination of a lion and a fish, the symbol of Singapore.
* Merrow (Irish and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
* Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki) - Ice-hearted wizards
* Miage-nyūdō (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
* Mikoshi-nyūdō(Japanese) (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
* Mimi (Australian Aboriginal) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
* Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal) - Death spirit
* Minotaur (Greek) - Human-bull hybrid
* Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit
* Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Mizuchi (Japanese) - Water dragon
* Mohan (Latin America) - Nature spirit
* Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
* Mokumokuren (Japanese) - Spirits that live in torn shōji
* Momonjii (Japanese) - Old man that meets victims at the fork of every road
* Moñái (Guaraní) - Giant snake with antennae
* Monocerus (Medieval Bestiary) - 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
* Mora (Slavic) - Disembodied spirit
* Morgens (Breton and Welsh) - Water spirits
* Morinji-no-okama (Japanese) - Animated tea kettle
* Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
* Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
* Mōryō (Japanese) - Long-eared, corpse-eating spirit
* Moss people (Germanic) - Little people and tree spirits
* Mountain Giant (Norse) - Giant
* Mujina (Japanese) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
* Mula Retinta (Colombian) - Malevolent storm spirit that takes the form of a mule
* Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal) - Water monster
* Muma Pădurii (Romanian) - Forest-dwelling hag
* Muscaliet (Medieval Bestiary) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid
* Muse (Greek) - Spirits that inspire artists
* Myling (Scandinavian) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
* Myōbu (Japanese) - Fox spirit
* Myrmecoleon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid
A Hoysala sculpture of a Naga couple. Halebidu.
A Hoysala sculpture of a Naga couple. Halebidu.
* Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
* Nāga (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
* Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
* Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
* Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
* Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
* Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
* Narikama (Japanese) - Kettle spirit
* 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
* Nebutori (Japanese) - Mystical disease which causes women to grow fat and lethargic
* 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-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
* Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
* Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
* Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
* Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
* Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
* Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
* Nuppefuhofu (Japanese) - Animated lump of decaying human flesh
* Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh
* Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Creature who sneaks into houses on busy evenings
* Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
* Nuribotoke (Japanese) - Animated corpse with blackened flesh and dangling eyeballs
* Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an endless wall
* Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
* Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
* Nyūbachibō (Japanese) - Mortar 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
# Oboro-guruma (Japanese) - Ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver
# Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus
# Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit
# Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling
# Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites
# Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid
# Ohaguro-bettari (Japanese) - Female ghost lacking all facial features save for a large, black-toothed smile
# Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
# Ōkamuro (Japanese) - Giant face which appears at the door
# Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl
# Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit
# Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore
# Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
# Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
# Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire
# Onikuma (Japanese) - Monstrous bear
# Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses
# Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid
# Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon
# Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than 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
# Otoroshi (Japanese) - Hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples
# 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
* 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 (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
* 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
* Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
* Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
* 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) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
* Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
* Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Puck (English) - House spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
* Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
* Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
* Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
* Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
* Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
* Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirits
* Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
* Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
* 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
* Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
* Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
* Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
* Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
* Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
* Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
* Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
* Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
* Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
* Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
* Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
* Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
* Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
* Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
* Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
* Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
* Ryū - Japanese dragon
Saci Pererê
Saci Pererê
* Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
* Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
* Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
* Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
* Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon
* Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
* Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
* Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
* Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
* Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
* Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
* Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
* Scorpion Man (Mayan and Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
* Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
* Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
* Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
* Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
* Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
* Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
* Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware
* Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
* Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
* Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* Shellycoat (Scottish) - Water spirit
* Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
* Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
* Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages
* Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
* Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
* Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
* Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
* Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
* Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
* Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
* Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
* Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
* Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni
* Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
* Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
* Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
* Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
* Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
* Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
* Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
* Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
* Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
* Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
* Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
* Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
* Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
* Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
* Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
* Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
* Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
* Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
* Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
* Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (English) - Winged little people
* Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
* Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
* Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
* Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
* Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
* Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
* Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
* Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
* Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
* Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
* Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
* Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
* Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
* The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
* Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
* Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
* Taimatsumaru (Japanese) - Tengu surrounded in demon fire
* Takam (Persian) - Nature spirit
* Taka-onna (Japanese) - Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
* Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
* Tangie (Scottish) - Shapeshifting water spirit
* Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
* Tankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
* Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
* Taotie (Chinese) - Greed spirit
* Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
* Tarasque (French) - Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
* Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
* Tartaruchi (Christian) - Demonic punisher
* Tatami-tataki (Japanese) - Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
* Tatsu - Japanese dragon
* Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
* Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
* Teju Jagua (Guaraní) - Lizard with seven dog heads
* Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
* Tenjōname (Japanese) - Ceiling-licking spirit
* Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
* Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
* Teumessian Fox (Greek) - Gigantic fox
* Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) - Animal-headed humanoid
* Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) - Solar bird
* Thunderbird (Native American) - Avian lightning spirit, bird
* Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
* Tianlong (Chinese) - Celestial dragon
* Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
* Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
* Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
* Timingila (Hindu) - Sea monster
* Tipua (Māori) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Titan (Greek) - Giant
* Tiyanak (Philippine) - Malevolent spirit in the form of a human infant
* Tizheruk (Inuit) - Sea serpent
* Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) - Shapeshifting vampire
* Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) - Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
* Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) - Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
* Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
* Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
* Tōtetsu (Japanese) - Greed spirit
* Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
* Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
* Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
* Tripurasura (Hindu) - Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
* Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
* Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
* Tsi-noo (Abenaki) - Vampiric demon
* Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
* Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
* Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
* Tsurara-onna (Japanese) - Icicle woman
* Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Ambush predator
* Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
* Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
* Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
* Turul (Hungarian) - Giant bird
* Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant
* Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
* Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
* Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passerbies
* Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
* Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
* Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
* Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
* Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Ungaikyō (Japanese) - Mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its surface
* Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
* Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
* Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
* Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
* Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
* Uriaş (Romanian) - Giant
* Urmahlullu (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
* Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
* Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit
* Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people
* Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
* Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
* Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
* Vampire (Slavic) - Re-animated corpse that subsists on blood
* Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
* Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
* Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
* Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
* Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost
* Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
* Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
* Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
* Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
* Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
* Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
* Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
* Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
* Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
* Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
* Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
* Wani - A crocodilian water monster
* Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
* Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg laying bird
* Warg (Norse) - Giant, demonic wolf
* Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
* Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
* Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
* Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
* Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
* Weisse Frauen (German) - Female sun spirit
* Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
* Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
* Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
* Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
* Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
* Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
* Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
* Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
* Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
* Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
* Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
* Wyrm - English dragon
* Wyvern (Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
* Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
* Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
* Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
* Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
Heraldic image of a Yale.
Heraldic image of a Yale.
* Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
* Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
* Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
* Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
* Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
* Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
* Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
* Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
* Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
* Yamaarashi (Japanese) - Porcupine spirit
* Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
* Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
* Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
* Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
* Yama-oroshi (Japanese) - a Radish-grater spirit
* Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
* Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
* Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
* Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
* Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
* Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
* Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
* Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
* Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
* Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
* Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
* Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
* Yofune-nushi (Japanese) - Sea monster
* Yōkai (Japanese) - Demon
* Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Yong - Korean dragon
* Yōsei (Japanese) - Nature spirit
* Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
* Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
* Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
* Yukinko (Japanese) - Child-like snow-spirit
* Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
* Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
* Yuxa (Tatar) - 100 year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
* Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
* Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
* Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
* Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
* Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
* Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
* Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
* Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
* Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
* Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
* Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
* Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
* Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
* Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
* Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
* Zmiy - Slavic dragon
* Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
* Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock
* Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
* Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
* Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
* Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
* 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 (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
* 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
* Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
* Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
* 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) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
* Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
* Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Puck (English) - House spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
* Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
* Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
* Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
* Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
* Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
* Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirits
* Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
* Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
* 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
* Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
* Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
* Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
* Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
* Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
* Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
* Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
* Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
* Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
* Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
* Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
* Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
* Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
* Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
* Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
* Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
* Ryū - Japanese dragon
Saci Pererê
Saci Pererê
* Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
* Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
* Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
* Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
* Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon
* Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
* Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
* Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
* Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
* Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
* Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
* Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
* Scorpion Man (Mayan and Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
* Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
* Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
* Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
* Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
* Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
* Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
* Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware
* Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
* Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
* Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* Shellycoat (Scottish) - Water spirit
* Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
* Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
* Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages
* Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
* Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
* Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
* Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
* Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
* Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
* Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
* Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
* Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
* Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni
* Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
* Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
* Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
* Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
* Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
* Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
* Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
* Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
* Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
* Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
* Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
* Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
* Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
* Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
* Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
* Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
* Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
* Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
* Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
* Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (English) - Winged little people
* Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
* Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
* Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
* Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
* Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
* Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
* Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
* Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
* Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
* Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
* Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
* Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
* Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
* The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
* Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
* Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
* Taimatsumaru (Japanese) - Tengu surrounded in demon fire
* Takam (Persian) - Nature spirit
* Taka-onna (Japanese) - Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
* Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
* Tangie (Scottish) - Shapeshifting water spirit
* Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
* Tankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
* Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
* Taotie (Chinese) - Greed spirit
* Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
* Tarasque (French) - Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
* Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
* Tartaruchi (Christian) - Demonic punisher
* Tatami-tataki (Japanese) - Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
* Tatsu - Japanese dragon
* Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
* Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
* Teju Jagua (Guaraní) - Lizard with seven dog heads
* Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
* Tenjōname (Japanese) - Ceiling-licking spirit
* Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
* Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
* Teumessian Fox (Greek) - Gigantic fox
* Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) - Animal-headed humanoid
* Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) - Solar bird
* Thunderbird (Native American) - Avian lightning spirit, bird
* Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
* Tianlong (Chinese) - Celestial dragon
* Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
* Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
* Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
* Timingila (Hindu) - Sea monster
* Tipua (Māori) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Titan (Greek) - Giant
* Tiyanak (Philippine) - Malevolent spirit in the form of a human infant
* Tizheruk (Inuit) - Sea serpent
* Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) - Shapeshifting vampire
* Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) - Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
* Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) - Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
* Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
* Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
* Tōtetsu (Japanese) - Greed spirit
* Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
* Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
* Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
* Tripurasura (Hindu) - Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
* Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
* Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
* Tsi-noo (Abenaki) - Vampiric demon
* Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
* Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
* Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
* Tsurara-onna (Japanese) - Icicle woman
* Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Ambush predator
* Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
* Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
* Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
* Turul (Hungarian) - Giant bird
* Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant
* Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
* Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
* Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passerbies
* Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
* Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
* Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
* Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
* Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Ungaikyō (Japanese) - Mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its surface
* Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
* Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
* Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
* Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
* Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
* Uriaş (Romanian) - Giant
* Urmahlullu (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
* Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
* Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit
* Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people
* Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
* Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
* Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
* Vampire (Slavic) - Re-animated corpse that subsists on blood
* Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
* Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
* Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
* Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
* Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost
* Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
* Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
* Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
* Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
* Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
* Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
* Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
* Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
* Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
* Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
* Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
* Wani - A crocodilian water monster
* Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
* Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg laying bird
* Warg (Norse) - Giant, demonic wolf
* Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
* Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
* Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
* Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
* Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
* Weisse Frauen (German) - Female sun spirit
* Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
* Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
* Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
* Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
* Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
* Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
* Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
* Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
* Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
* Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
* Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
* Wyrm - English dragon
* Wyvern (Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
* Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
* Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
* Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
* Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
Heraldic image of a Yale.
Heraldic image of a Yale.
* Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
* Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
* Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
* Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
* Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
* Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
* Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
* Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
* Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
* Yamaarashi (Japanese) - Porcupine spirit
* Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
* Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
* Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
* Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
* Yama-oroshi (Japanese) - a Radish-grater spirit
* Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
* Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
* Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
* Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
* Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
* Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
* Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
* Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
* Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
* Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
* Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
* Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
* Yofune-nushi (Japanese) - Sea monster
* Yōkai (Japanese) - Demon
* Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Yong - Korean dragon
* Yōsei (Japanese) - Nature spirit
* Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
* Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
* Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
* Yukinko (Japanese) - Child-like snow-spirit
* Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
* Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
* Yuxa (Tatar) - 100 year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
* Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
* Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
* Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
* Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
* Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
* Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
* Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
* Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
* Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
* Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
* Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
* Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
* Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
* Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
* Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
* Zmiy - Slavic dragon
* Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
* Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock
* Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
* Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
* Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
* Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
* Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
* 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 (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
* 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
* Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
* Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
* 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) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
* Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
* Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Puck (English) - House spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
* Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
* Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
* Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
* Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
* Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
* Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirits
* Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
* Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
* 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
* Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Dragon
* Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demons
* Ramidreju (Spanish) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
* Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
* Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
* Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
* Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
* Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
* Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
* Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
* Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
* Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid tricksters
* Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
* Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
* Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
* Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
* Ryū - Japanese dragon
Saci Pererê
Saci Pererê
* Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
* Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
* Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
* Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
* Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon
* Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
* Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
* Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
* Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
* Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
* Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
* Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
* Scorpion Man (Mayan and Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
* Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
* Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
* Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
* Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
* Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
* Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
* Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware
* Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
* Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
* Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* Shellycoat (Scottish) - Water spirit
* Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
* Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
* Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages
* Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
* Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
* Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
* Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
* Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
* Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
* Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
* Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
* Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
* Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni
* Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
* Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
* Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
* Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
* Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
* Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird
* Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
* Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
* Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
* Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
* Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
* Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
* Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
* Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
* Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
* Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
* Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
* Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
* Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
* Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (English) - Winged little people
* Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
* Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
* Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
* Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
* Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
* Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
* Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
* Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
* Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
* Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
* Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle
* Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
* Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirit
* The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
* Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
* Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
* Taimatsumaru (Japanese) - Tengu surrounded in demon fire
* Takam (Persian) - Nature spirit
* Taka-onna (Japanese) - Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
* Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
* Tangie (Scottish) - Shapeshifting water spirit
* Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
* Tankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
* Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
* Taotie (Chinese) - Greed spirit
* Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
* Tarasque (French) - Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
* Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
* Tartaruchi (Christian) - Demonic punisher
* Tatami-tataki (Japanese) - Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
* Tatsu - Japanese dragon
* Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
* Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
* Teju Jagua (Guaraní) - Lizard with seven dog heads
* Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
* Tenjōname (Japanese) - Ceiling-licking spirit
* Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
* Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
* Teumessian Fox (Greek) - Gigantic fox
* Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) - Animal-headed humanoid
* Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) - Solar bird
* Thunderbird (Native American) - Avian lightning spirit, bird
* Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
* Tianlong (Chinese) - Celestial dragon
* Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
* Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
* Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
* Timingila (Hindu) - Sea monster
* Tipua (Māori) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Titan (Greek) - Giant
* Tiyanak (Philippine) - Malevolent spirit in the form of a human infant
* Tizheruk (Inuit) - Sea serpent
* Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) - Shapeshifting vampire
* Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) - Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
* Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) - Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
* Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
* Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
* Tōtetsu (Japanese) - Greed spirit
* Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
* Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
* Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
* Tripurasura (Hindu) - Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
* Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
* Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
* Tsi-noo (Abenaki) - Vampiric demon
* Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
* Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
* Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
* Tsurara-onna (Japanese) - Icicle woman
* Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Ambush predator
* Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
* Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
* Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
* Turul (Hungarian) - Giant bird
* Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant
* Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah
* Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
* Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passerbies
* Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
* Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
* Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
* Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
* Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Ungaikyō (Japanese) - Mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its surface
* Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
* Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
* Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
* Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
* Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
* Uriaş (Romanian) - Giant
* Urmahlullu (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
* Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
* Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit
* Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people
* Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
* Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
* Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
* Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
* Vampire (Slavic) - Re-animated corpse that subsists on blood
* Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
* Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
* Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
* Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
* Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost
* Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
* Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
* Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
* Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
* Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
* Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
* Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
* Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
* Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
A German woodcut of a Werewolf from 1722
* Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
* Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
* Wani - A crocodilian water monster
* Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
* Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg laying bird
* Warg (Norse) - Giant, demonic wolf
* Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
* Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
* Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
* Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
* Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
* Weisse Frauen (German) - Female sun spirit
* Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
* Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
* Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
* Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
* Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
* Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
* Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
* Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
* Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
* Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
* Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
* Wyrm - English dragon
* Wyvern (Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
* Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
* Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
* Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
* Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
Heraldic image of a Yale.
Heraldic image of a Yale.
* Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
* Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
* Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
* Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
* Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
* Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
* Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
* Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
* Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
* Yamaarashi (Japanese) - Porcupine spirit
* Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
* Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
* Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
* Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
* Yama-oroshi (Japanese) - a Radish-grater spirit
* Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
* Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
* Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
* Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
* Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
* Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
* Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
* Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
* Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
* Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
* Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
* Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
* Yofune-nushi (Japanese) - Sea monster
* Yōkai (Japanese) - Demon
* Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Yong - Korean dragon
* Yōsei (Japanese) - Nature spirit
* Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
* Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
* Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
* Yukinko (Japanese) - Child-like snow-spirit
* Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
* Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
* Yuxa (Tatar) - 100 year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
* Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
* Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
* Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
* Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
* Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
* Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
* Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
* Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
* Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
* Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
* Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
* Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
* Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
* Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
* Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
* Zmiy - Slavic dragon
* Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
* Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock
* Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
* Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost