List of legendary creatures (N)

A Hoysala sculpture of a Nāga 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
Nang Takian (Thai) - Tree spirit
Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
Narasimha (Hindu mythology) - Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion
Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
Nariphon (Thai) - Pod people
Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
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
Neck (Germanic mythology) - Female water spirit
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 (Abrahamic mythology) - Gigantic sons of Grigori and human women
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
Nü Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chunk of dead flesh
Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) - Snake-spirit of the Zambezi River
Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit

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