Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost
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

* Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
* Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
* Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
* Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
* Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
* Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
* Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
* Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
* Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
* Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
* Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
* Demon - Malevolent spirit
* Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
* Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
* Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
* Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
* Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
* Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
* Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
* Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
* Dodomeki (Japanese) - Ghost of a pickpocket, her arms are covered in eyes
* Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
* Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, one-legged humanoids
* Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
* Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
* Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
* Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
* Dorotabō (Japanese) - Ghost of an old man whose rice fields were neglected and sold
* Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
* Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
* Dragon
* Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
* Draugr (Norse) - Undead
* Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
* Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
* Drude (German) - Possessing demon
* Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
* Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
* Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
* Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
* Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
* Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
* Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
* Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
* Dybbuk (Jewish) - Possessing spirit
* Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
* Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag
"The Erlking", by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910
"The Erlking", by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910

* Each Uisge (Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
* Eachy (English and Scottish) - Humanoid lake monster
* Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) - Leadership or guidance totem
* Ebu Gogo (Flores) - Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
* Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
* Edimmu (Sumerian) - Ghosts of those not buried properly
* Egbere (Yoruba) - Humanoid that carries a magical mat
* Einherjar (Norse) - Spirits of brave warriors
* Ekek (Philippine) - Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
* Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) - Hags with awls in their elbows
* Eldjötnar (Norse) - Fire giant
* Eleionomae (Greek) - Marsh nymph
* Elemental (Alchemy) - Personification of one of the Classical elements
* ‘Elepaio (Hawaiian) - Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
* Elf (Germanic) - Nature and fertility spirit
* Eloko (Central Africa) - Little people and malevolent nature spirits
* Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) - Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
* Emere (Yoruba) - Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
* Emim (Jewish) - Giant
* Empusa (Greek) - Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
* Encantado (Brazilian) - Dolphin-human shapeshifter
* Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) - Enchanted princesses
* Enenra (Japanese) - Monster made of smoke
* Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
* Enkō (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
* Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
* Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
* Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
* Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
* Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
* Ežerinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit
* Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
* Fæcce (Anglo-Saxon) - Animal protection spirit
* Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
* Familiar (English) - Animal servant
* Far darrig (Irish) - Little people that constantly play pranks
* Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
* Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
* Feathered Serpent - Mesoamerican dragon
* Fenghuang (Chinese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
* Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit
* Fenrir (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
* Fext (Slavic) - Undead
* Finfolk (Orkney) - Fish-human hybrid that kidnaps humans for servants
* Fir Bolg (Irish) - Ancestral race
* Fire Bird (Many cultures worldwide) - Regenerative, solar bird
* Firedrake (Germanic) - Dragon
* Fish-man (Cantabrian) - Amphibious, scaled humanoid
* Fomorian (Irish) - Goat-headed giant
* Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
* Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
* Funayūrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
* Furu-utsubo (Japanese) - Animated jar
* Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of
her head
* Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar

* Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
* Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
* Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropohagous monster
* Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
* Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
* Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
* Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
* Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
* Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
* Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
* Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
* Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster
* Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
* Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
* Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
* Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
* Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
* Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
* Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
* Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
* Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
* Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
* Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
* Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
* Giant (mythology)
* Giant animal (mythology)
* Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
* Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
* Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
* Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
* Girtablilu Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
* Glashtyn (Manx - Malevolent water horse
* Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
* Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
* Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
* Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
* Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
* Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
* Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
* Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
* Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
* Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
* Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
* Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
* Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
* Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
* Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
* Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
* Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Gwyllgi - Welsh black dog
* Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
* Gytrash - Lincolnshire and Yorkshire black dog
* Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
* Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
* Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
* Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
* Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
* Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
* Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropohagous, partially invisible monster
* Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
* Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
* Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
* Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
* Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
* Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
* Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
* Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
* Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
* Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
* Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
* Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
* Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
* Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
* Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
* Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
* Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
* Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
* Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
* Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
* Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
* Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
* Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
* Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
* Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
* Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
* Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
* Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
* Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
* Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
* Hob (English) - House spirit
* Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
* Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
* Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffon
* Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
* Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
* Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
* Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to seduce men
* Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
* Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
* Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
* Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
* Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
* Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
* Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
* Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
* Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
* Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
* Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
* Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
* Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
* Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
* Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
* Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
* Hyōtan-kozō (Japanese) - Gourd spirit
* 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
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
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Devil’s Bridge is a term applied to two or three dozen ancient bridges, found primarily in Europe. Most of these bridges are stone or masonry arch bridges and represent a significant technological achievement. Local lore often wrongly attributes these bridges to the Roman era, but in fact many of them are medieval, having been built between 1000 and 1600 AD.

The bridges that fall into the Devil’s Bridge category are so numerous that the legends about them form a special category in the Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktales (Number 1191). Some of the legends have elements of related folktale categories, for example Deceiving the Devil (AT #1196), The Devil's Contract (AT #756B), and The Master Builder legends.
Teufelsbrücke of St. Gotthard Pass, Switzerland.
Teufelsbrücke of St. Gotthard Pass, Switzerland.

One version of the tale presents the bridge builder and the Devil as adversaries. This reflects the fact that in many cases—such as the Teufelsbrücke[1] at the St. Gotthard Pass, pictured left—these bridges were built under such challenging conditions that successful completion of the bridge required a heroic effort on the part of the builders and the community, ensuring its legendary status.

Other versions of the legend feature an old lady or a simple herder who makes a pact with the Devil. In this version the devil agrees to build the bridge, and in return he will receive the first soul to cross it. After building the bridge (often overnight) the devil is outwitted by his adversary and is last seen descending into the water, bringing peace to the community. Each of the bridges that have received the Devil's Bridge appellation is remarkable in some regard; most often for the technological hurdles surpassed in building the bridge, but on occasion also for its aesthetic grace, or for its economic or strategic importance to the community it serves.


Partial list of Devil's Bridges

France

* Pont du Diable - Aniane (Gorges de l'Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon)
* Pont du Diable - Villemagne-l'Argentière (Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon)
* Pont du Diable - Beaugency
* Pont du Diable - Céret
* Pont du Diable - Foix
* Pont du Diable - Olargues
* Pont du Diable - Valentré

Italy

* Ponte del Diavolo - Ascoli Piceno, Marche
* Ponte del Diavolo - Blera, Lazio
* Ponte del Diavolo (officially Ponte Vecchio, also Ponte Gobbo) - Bobbio, Emilia Romagna
* Ponte del Diavolo (or Ponte della Maddalena) - Borgo a Mozzano, Tuscany
* Ponte del Diavolo - Cavallara (a frazione of Gualdo Cattaneo, Umbria)
* Ponte del Diavolo - Cividale, Friuli
* Ponte del Diavolo - Dronero, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont
* Ponte del Diavolo - Lanzo Torinese, Piedmont
* Ponticello del Diavolo (‘the Devil’s little bridge’) - Torcello, Veneto

United Kingdom

* Devil's Bridge - Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach), Ceredigion
* Devil's Bridge - Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
* Devil's Bridge - Horace Farm, Pennington Parish, Cumbria

Other countries

* Ponte do Diabo - Vila Nova, Portugal
* Ponte do Diabo - Misarela, Portugal
* Puente del Diablo - Martorell, Spain
* Teufelsbrücke - St. Gotthard Pass, Switzerland
* Tüfelsbrugg - Commune of Egg, Switzerland, Switzerland
* Dyavolski most (Дяволски мост) - near Ardino, Bulgaria
* Hudičev most - Bohinj, Slovenia
* Duivelsbrug - Breda, Netherlands
* Moara Dracului - Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania

In Christianity, the Fall of Man, or simply the Fall, is believed to refer to the transition of the first humans from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience to God. In the origin stories of Christianity, the first humans, Adam and Eve, live at first with God in a paradise, but are then deceived or tempted by another creature to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil from which God had forbidden them to eat. After doing so, they become ashamed of their nakedness and God consequently expels them from paradise. The Fall is not mentioned by name in the Bible, but the story of disobedience and expulsion is recounted in both in different ways.

In other religions, such as Judaism, Islam, and Gnosticism interpretations of the Fall vary.

In Christianity, Fall of Man can refer to the wider theological inferences for all humankind drawn from Eve and Adam's sin, which was called original sin, such as the biblical teachings of Paul as recorded in Romans 5:12-19 and 1 Cor. 15:21-22. Some Christians believe the Fall corrupted the entire natural world, including human nature, causing people to be born into original sin, a state from which they cannot attain eternal life without the gracious intervention of God. Protestants hold that Jesus' death was a "ransom" by which man was made forever free from the sin acquired at the Fall, and other denominations believe that this act made it possible for man to be free without necessarily ensuring it.

The term "prelapsarian" refers to the sin-free state of humanity prior to the Fall. It is sometimes used in reference to sentimental recollections of a past time when conditions stood in sharp contrast to the present; this situation is called nostalgia.

From the Book of Genesis

In Genesis, the first book of the Jewish and Christian Bibles, God creates Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, in his own image. God places them in the Garden of Eden and forbids them to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (often symbolized in European art and literature as an apple tree). A serpent persuades Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree. Eve shares the fruit with Adam and they immediately become ashamed of their nakedness.

Tradition labels the penalties assessed by God on Adam and Eve for their sin "curses"; however, the passages from Genesis explicitly curse only the serpent and the ground, not the man and the woman.


From the Quran

God announced to the angels that he would create a vicegerent (man) on the earth. The angels questioned this, wondering why God would create something with the capacity to disobey him
God then commanded the angels to prostrate (bow down) to Adam. The angels prostrated but Iblis (Satan, Devil), out of loyalty, refused to bow to anyone else but God. God cursed him because of his disobediance. Iblis sought respite and vowed to mislead Adam who was the cause of his disgrace. He misled Adam and his wife Eve to eat from a tree that was forbidden for them by God.

This disobedience displeased God and He ordered Adam and Eve to leave paradise and go to earth. God promised that the earth will be a dwelling place for them and their children a limited time (Until the Day of Judgment).

God warns men and women that they should not allow themselves to be deceived by Satan and fall into disobedience (disbelief, polytheism and sins) which will eventually lead them to Hell. If men and women obey God, they will lead a successful life on earth and will get paradise as a reward.

God punishes them by expelling them from the Garden of Eden. God's punishment extends to Adam and Eve's descendants, who must strive, suffer, and die.

The Qur'an Al-A'raf (The Elevated Places) verses 7:11-27 detail the story of the Fall.

Other traditions

In Gnosticism, the snake is thanked for bringing knowledge to Adam and Eve, and thereby freeing them from the Demiurge's control. The Demiurge banished Adam and Eve, because man was now a threat.

Ancient Greek mythology held that humanity was immortal during the Golden Age, until Prometheus brought them fire to help them live through cold. The gods punished humans allowing Pandora to release the evil (death, sorrow, plague) into the world due to her curiosity.

In classic Zoroastrianism, mankind is created to withstand the forces of decay and destruction through good thoughts, words and deeds. Failure to do so actively leads to misery for the individual and for his family. This is also the moral of many of the stories of the Shahnameh, the key text of Persian mythology

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In the Book of Genesis the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (and occasionally translated as the Tree of Conscience) was a tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:9) from which God directly forbade Adam (Eve having not yet been created) to eat (Genesis 2:17). A serpent later tempted Eve, who was aware of the prohibition, to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (Genesis 3:1-6). Adam also ate, and they became aware of their nakedness (Genesis 3:6-7). After this, in order to deny them access to the tree of life (and, hence, immortality), they were banished from the garden and forced to survive through agriculture "by the sweat of [their] face" (Genesis 3:19-24).