List of legendary creatures by type

This is a list of legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales, sorted by their classification or affiliation. Creatures from modern fantasy fiction and role-playing games are not included.

Animals, creatures associated with

Antelopes and deer

Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Artemis' large, sacred golden hind
Deer Woman (Native American) – female human above the waist, deer below
Gilled Antelope (Cambodian cryptid) – water breathing deer
Goldhorn (Slavic) – white golden-horned antelope

Keresh (Jewish) – giant deer of the forest of Bei Ilai
Qilin (Chinese) – East Asian chimerical good luck symbol
Jackalope (North American) – jackrabbit with antelope horns
White stag (worldwide) – magic white deer
Peryton (Argentina) – Stag with bird parts

Aquatic and marine mammals

Bake-kujira (Japanese) – ghost whale
Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – water horse
Encantado (Brazil) – shapeshifting trickster dolphins
Kelpie (Scottish) – water horse
Kushtaka (Tlingit) – shapeshifting "land otter man"
Selkie (Scottish) shapeshifting seal people

Arthropods

Anansi (West African) – trickster spider
Arachne (Greek) – weaver cursed into a spider
Khepri (Ancient Egyptian) – beetle who pushes the sun
Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – shapeshifting giant spider
Myrmecoleon (Christian) – ant-lion
Myrmidons (Greek) – warriors created from ants by Zeus

Jorōgumo (Japanese) – ghost woman who shapeshifts into a spider
Karkinos (Greek) – Cancer the crab
Mothman (American cryptid) – man with moth wings and features
Pabilsag (Babylonian) – Sagittarius-like creature with scorpion tail
Scorpion man (Babylonian) – protector of travellers
Selket (Ancient Egyptian) – scorpion death/healing goddess

Bats

Balayang (Australian)-
Chupacabra (Latin American)- Alleged creature reputed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, occasionally described with bat-like features.
Camazotz (Mayan bat-god)
Leutogi (Polynesian)
Minyades (Greek)- Three sisters who refused to take part in the worship of Dionysus, and turned into bats by Hermes.
Nyctimene (Roman)- Transformed into a bat by Minerva.
Tjinimin (Australian)
Vetala (Hindu)- Vampiric entity that takes over cadavers.

Bears

Bugbear (Celtic) – child-eating hobgoblin
Callisto – A nymph who was turned into a bear by Hera.

Birds

Adarna – has healing powers, put people to sleep, and turn people into stone (Philippines)
Aethon – eagle tormentor of Prometheus
Alkonost – female with body of a bird (Russian)
Alectryon – rooster (Greek)
Alicanto – bird with luminescent feathers which feeds on gold or silver (Chilean)
Bare-fronted Hoodwink
Bennu – self-creating deity, Phoenix (Egyptian)
Bird People
Cockatrice
Caladrius – white bird with healing powers (Roman)
Cetan – hawk spirit (Native American – Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota)
Chamrosh – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird (Persian Myth)
Chol (Biblical mythology) – regenerative bird
Cinnamon bird – builds nests out of cinnamon (Arabia)
Devil Bird – shrieks predicting death, like banshee (Sri Lankan)
Feng Huang – reigns over other birds (China)
Gandaberunda – two headed magical bird (Hindu)
Gamayun – prophetic bird with woman's head (Russian)
Garuda – known as the primordial bird and the progenitor of all birds; vehicle of Lord Vishnu (Hindu, Buddhist)
Griffin – guards treasure and priceless possessions (Greek)
Harpy – ugly winged bird woman, steals food (Greek)
Hræsvelgr – giant who takes the form of an eagle
Horus – deity (Egypt)
Hugin and Munin – two ravens that serve as messengers (Norse mythology)

Nachtkrapp – (The Night Raven)
Oozlum bird – (Australian and British folk tales)
Owlman – compared to America's Mothman (England)
Pamola – bird/moose spirit who causes cold weather (Abenaki)
Phoenix – (Greek)
Ra – Deity (Egypt)
Rain Bird – bird who brought rain (Native American)
Roc – enormous legendary bird of prey
Shangyang – rainbird (Chinese)
Simurgh
Sirin – birds with women heads, lured men to their death (Russia, Greek)
Strix – owl that ate human flesh (Greek)
Stymphalian birds – man-eating birds (Greek)
Tengu – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog (Japan)
Three-legged bird (various cultures)
Thunderbird – (Native American, American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains)
Thoth – deity (Egypt)
Turul – mythological bird of prey
Vermilion Bird – (Chinese)
Vucub Caquix – bird demon
Yatagarasu – three-legged crow
Ziz – giant griffin (Jewish)
Zu – divine monster depicted as a lion-headed eagle

Bovines

Minotaur – monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man (Greek).
Nandi
Shedu
Tachash (Jewish)
Ushi-oni – (Japan)

Camelids

Allocamelus – A donkey-headed camel.

Canines

Adlet
Amarok
Anubis – jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
Aralez
Asena
Axehandle hound
Black dog, also known as Barghest, or Grim – associated with the Devil, Hellhound (Britain)
Beast of Gévaudan – man-eating wolf, terrorized the province of Gévaudan (France)
Cerberus – multi-headed dog, guards the gates of the Underworld, son/brother of Orthrus (Greek, Roman)
Chupacabra – sometimes thought to resemble, or mistaken for a hairless coyote
Cu Sith (or Cusith) – Hellhound, harbinger of death (Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland)
Crocotta – mythical dog-wolf, related to the hyena (India, Ethiopia)
Cynocephaly – having the head of a dog or jackal
Fenrir – monstrous wolf, father of the wolves (Norse)
Gelert

Hellhound – supernatural dog, bringers of death (worldwide)
Huli jing or Kitsune or Kumiho – Fox spirits, like Fairies (China, Japan, Korea)
Kishi – cannibalistic two-faced demon, half-human half-hyena(Africa)
Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek)
Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese)
Salawa – Egyptian Cryptid, possibly fennec Foxes
Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)
Shunka Warakin – resembles a wolf, a hyena, or both. (America)
Tanuki – Japanese raccoon dog, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
Vǎrkolak, or "Vukodlak" (Slavic) – undead vampire werewolf
Werewolf – human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Worldwide)

Caprids

Amalthea
Aries
Capricornus
Chimera
Faun-a Roman version of satyr. It has a human head and torso and a goat waist and legs.
Goldhorn – also known as Zlatorog

Heiðrún – goat in Norse mythology, which produces mead for the einherjar
Khnum
Satyr-a goat legged human that is associated to the deity Dionysus. Know to be drunk partiers.
Sidehill gouger
Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr – Thor's magical goats

Chicken

Sarimanok a legendary chicken of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao (Philippines)

Equines

Arion – Talking immortal horse (Greek)
Buraq – Al-Burāq, steed from the heavens that transported the prophets (Islam, Persian Art)
Centaur – head, arms, and torso of a human, the body and legs of a horse (Greek)
Cheval Gauvin – horse which tries to kill its rider (French/Swiss)
Chiron – centaur believed to be exceptional among his brethren (Greek)
Haizum – horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam)
Hippocamp – Sea-Horse (Greek)
Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French,England)
Ichthyocentaurs – upper body of a man, the lower front of a horse, tail of a fish (Greek)
Ipotane – half-horse, half-humans, original centaurs (Greek)
Karkadann – monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia)
Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge – water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)

Longma – fabled winged horse with dragon scales (China)
Nuckelavee – evil elf, ruins crops, causes epidemics, and drought (Orkney islands, Scotland)
Onocentaur – part human, part donkey (Greek)
Pegasus – white winged stallion (Greek)
Pooka – spirits, or fairies who lived near ancient stones, good or bad (Ireland)
Sleipnir – Odin's eight-legged horse, which he rode to Hel (location) (Norse)
Simurgh – like the Hippogriff with the head of a human (Persian)
Tikbalang – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
Unicorn horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide)
White horse

Felines

Manticore
Narasimha
Merlion (Singaporean) - a fish with a lion's head
Nekomata (Japan)
Nemean Lion (Greek)
Panther
Phantom cat
Sekhmet (Egypian)
Sphinx (Egyptian)
Surrey Puma
Tigris – giant lion of the forest of Bei Ilai
Underwater panther
White Tiger

Fish

Fish People
- Mermaid / Merman – half-human, half-fish (worldwide)
- water spirit – (worldwide)
- Undine – Water spirits of Celtic Mythos, no souls until they marry a human man and bear him a child (German)

Hyenas

Marsupials

Molluscs

Akkorokamui
Kraken – squid monster (Worldwide)
Shen

Musteloids, mongoose and civets

Pachyderms

See List of elephants in mythology and religion

Pangolins

Veo

Pigs and boars

Primates

Bigfoot or Sasquatch – Cryptid, animal of the Northwest (America)
Hibagon or Hinagon – ape-like, similar to Bigfoot, or the Yeti (Japan)
Jué yuán – blue-furred man-sized rhesus monkey that abducts human women (China & Japan)
Satori – mind-reading magical ape or monkey (Japan)
Shōjō – anthropomorphic spirit, depicted as furred, somewhat confounded with orangutan (Japan)
Shug Monkey – dog/monkey (Britain)
Sun Wukong (proper name) – powerful warrior-magician in the form of a monkey who hatched from a stone egg (China)

Vanara
Yeren – man-monkey, cryptid hominid, resides in remote mountainous (China)
Yeti – Abominable Snowman, ape-like cryptid similar to Bigfoot, that inhabits the Himalayas (Nepal, Tibet)
Yowie – hominid said to live in the Australian wilderness, a cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti (Australia)

Rabbits and hares

Al-mi'raj – rabbit with unicorn horn (Arabia)
Jackalope

Moon rabbit – a rabbit living on the moon (Chinese)
Skvader
Wolpertinger

Reptiles, limbed

Ammut – female demon, funerary deity and animal hybrid (Egypt)
Basilisk – king of serpents, has the power to cause death with a single glance (Europe)
Black Tortoise – one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations
Chinese Dragon – serpentine creature with four legs
Cipactli – sea monster, part crocodile, fish and toad. Always hungry, thousands of mouths (Spanish, Aztec)
Dragon – serpentine, reptilian traits (worldwide)

Kongamato
Kurma
Loch Ness Monster – sea monster cryptid (Scotland)
Makara
Mokele Mbembe
Reptilian humanoids
Sewer alligator
Sobek
Taniwha
Wyvern
Zaratan
knucker – sea serpent like dragon

Rodents

Rat king – phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
Wolpertinger

Serpents and worms

Anaconda - from Greek tales, a snake that encircled the world at the equator
Amphisbaena
Amphithere
Apep/Apophis
Azhi Dahaka
Basilisk
Bakonawa
Cockatrice
Dragon

Drake
Echidna (Greek)
Fafnir
Feathered serpent
Gorgon (including Medusa) (Greek)
Hoop snake
Hydra (Greek)
Jaculus/Jaculi

Monotremes

Peluda

Xenarthrans

Mapinguari

Procyonids

Azeban is a lower-level trickster spirit in Abenaki mythology. The traditional homeland of the Abenaki is Wobanakik (Place of the Dawn), what is now called northern New England and southern Quebec. Azeban (also spelled Azban, Asban or Azaban) is a raccoon, the Abenaki trickster figure. Pronounced ah-zuh-bahn. Azeban does many foolish and/or mischievous things in Abenaki folktales, but unlike animal tricksters in some other tribes, is not dangerous or malevolent.

Insectivores

Lavellan A Lavellan, làbh-allan, la-mhalan or la-bhallan etc. is a mythological creature from northern Scotland. It was generally considered to be a kind of rodent, and indeed the name "làbh-allan" is also used for a water shrew or water vole in Scottish Gaelic. It was however, reportedly larger than a rat, very noxious, and lived in deep pools in rivers. Its poisonous abilities were legendary, and it was said to be able to injure cattle over a hundred feet away.

Cryptid animals

Artificial creatures

This listing includes creatures that are man-made, mechanical or of alchemical origins.

Automaton (worldwide) – self-operating machine; most famous example is Greek mythology's Talos
Blodeuwedd (Welsh) – wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Frankenstein's monster
Galatea (Greek) – ivory statue carved by Pygmalion
Gingerbread man – from German folk tales
Golem (Jewish) – animated humanoid construct
Homunculus (Alchemy) – diminutive, animated construct
Nephele (Greek) – nymph formed from a cloud by Zeus to resemble the goddess Hera
Shabti (Egyptian) – clay model used as workers

Tokeloshe (Zulu mythology) – diminutive, hairy humanoid with various magical powers
Tsukumogami (Japanese) – objects that come to life, of their own accord, after 100 years
Tulpa (Tibetan Buddhism) – creature brought to life through meditation
Tupilaq (Inuit) – large statues brought to life to serve witches and shamans
Ushabti (Egyptian) – clay guardians/assistants
Various objects animated by gods, demons and spirits in mythology, legend and folklore

Body parts, creatures associated with

Blood

Note: see [[#* Alan

Bone

Eye

Face

Hair

Head

Limbs

Asura (Indian)
Deva / Devi (Indian)
Hekatonkheires

Mouth

Skin

Tail

Neck

Torso

Concepts, creatures associated with

Evil eye

Basilisk
Balor of the Evil Eye – king of the Fomorians, a race of giants, and a cyclops (Irish)
Catoblepas
Cockatrice

Gorgon – woman with hair made of living, venomous snakes, and eyes that turned men to stone (Greek):
- Medusa – once a human, Medusa and her sisters were cursed to be terrible monsters by Athena (Greek)
- Euryale – second eldest of the three vicious Gorgon sisters (Greek)
- Stheno – eldest of the Gorgon Sisters (Greek)

Immortality and death

Fertility and human sexuality

Birth and rebirth

Luck and wealth

Sound

Love and Romance

Dream and mind

Talk

Note: see Talking animal

Gef
Satan

Wisdom

Time and technology

Light

Demons

see list of theological demons

Elements, creatures associated with

Aether

Air and wind

see List of flying mythological creatures

Darkness

Earth and subterranean

Fire

Light and rainbow

Metal and gold

Thunder and lightning

Water

Habitats, creatures associated with

Cave and underground

Celestial and heaven

Desert

Temperate forest and woodland

Tropical forest and jungle

Temperate grassland and garden

Fairy
Gnome

Savanna

Lake and river

Mountain and hill

Sea

Aspidochelone

Swamp and marsh

Volcano and lava

Polar, ice, and winter

Urban and house

Banshee
Boggart
Brownie
Domovoi (Slavic house spirit)
Dvorovoi (Slavic yard spirit)
Duende

Underworld and hell

Cerberus

Humanoids

see Mythic humanoids

Hybrids

see List of hybrid creatures

Astronomical objects, creatures associated with

Sun

Kua Fu a giant in China
Three-legged bird in China, Japan
Phoenix in Greek Mythology

Moon

Constellation

World

Plants, creatures associated with

Shapeshifters

see List of shapeshifters

Times, creatures associated with

Day and diurnal

Unicorn (rather resembles the moon)
Wolpertinger

Night and nocturnal

Undead

Aswang
Banshee – (Scottish, Gaelic, Irish)
Ghost – (Worldwide)
Jikininki
Kuchisake-onna
Poltergeist – (Worldwide)
Preta

Spirit – (Worldwide)
Vampire
Wewe Gombel
Wili
Will o' the wisp – Jack o lantern (English)
Wraith
Yurei

see also Category:Ghosts and Ghosts in Hindu Mythology – Bhoot, Baital & Pishacha

Corporeal

Zombie

Miscellaneous

Daemon
Demon
Fairy
Familiar
Genie – or Jinn, Djinn

References

↑ "Geryon". Theoi. Retrieved 10 February 2017. a three-bodied, four-winged giant

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[1] "Geryon". Theoi. Retrieved 10 February 2017. a three-bodied, four-winged giant