List of legendary creatures (P)

A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois. 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
Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) - White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes
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 leopard
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
Pegasus (Greek) - Winged horse
Pegacorn - Pegasus-unicorn hybrid
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
Phi Tai Hong (Thai) - Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death
Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes
Piasa (Native American mythology) - Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
Piatek (Armenian) - Large land animal
Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) - Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
Pillan (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) - Water spirit
Piru (Finnish) - Minor demon
Pishacha (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) - Man-eating 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 Jain) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Pricolici (Romanian - Roman) - Undead wolf
Psoglav (Serbia) - Dog-headed monster
Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
Psychai (Greek) - Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
Psychopomp (Greek) - Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
Púki (Icelandic) - Malevolent little person
Puck (English) - House spirit
Putz (German) - House spirit
Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
Puk (Frisian) - House spirit
Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) - Troll-like gray-skinned being
Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon

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