List of legendary creatures (B)
Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
- Ba (Egyptian) - Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
- Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
- Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
- Badalisc (Italian) - Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
- Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
- Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
- Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
- Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
- Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
- 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
- Baloz (Albanian)- Sea monster
- Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
- Banshee (Irish) - Screaming death spirit
- Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
- Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
- Bardha (Albanian) - Mountain spirit
- Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
- Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
- Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
- Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
- Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
- Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
- BasCelik (Serbian) - Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
- Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
- Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
- Basilisk (Italian) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
- Bathala (Philippine) - Primordial god of creation
- Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
- Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
- Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
- Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
- Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) - Werewolf
- Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
- Behemoth (Jewish) - Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or crocodile
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
- Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
- Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
- Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
- 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, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
- Bies (Slavic) - Demon
- Bigfoot (American Folklore) - Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
- Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
- Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
- Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) - Animated biwa
- Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
- Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
- Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
- Blafard - Imaginary creature from the early United States of America.
- Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
- Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
- Błudnik (Slavic) - Mischievous gnome
- Blue Crow (Brazilian) - Giant amazonian bird.
- Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
- Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
- Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
- Boginki (Slavic) - Nature spirit
- Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
- Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
- Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
- Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
- 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
- Bucca (Cornish) - A male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms.
- Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
- Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
- Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
- Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
- Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
- Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
- Bunny Man (American Folklore) West Virginia Urban Legend - Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
- Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
- Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
- Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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