List of legendary creatures (G)
- Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
- Gagana (Russian) - Iron-beaked bird with copper talons
- Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
- Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
- Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Small demonic servants
- Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic human-headed bird
- Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
- Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
- Gandabherunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
- Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
- Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
- Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous hound
- Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
- Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant malevolent skeletons
- Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
- Geb (Egyptian) - God of the Earth, married to Nut
- Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
- Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
- Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
- German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
- Geryon (Greek) - Three-headed six-armed giant with three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
- Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
- Ghost - Disembodied spirits of those that have died
- Ghoul (Arabian) - Cannibalistic shapeshifting desert genie often classified as undead.
- Giant (Worldwide) - Immensely large and strong humanoids
- Giant animal (Worldwide) - Unusually large beasts
- Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid 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
- Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
- 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
- Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
- Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
- Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
- Grassman (Ohio, USA) - Ape-like cryptid
- Gremlin (Folklore) - Creatures that sabotage airplanes
- Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
- Grigori (Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mythology) - Fallen angels, father of Nephilim
- Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
- Grim Reaper (Worldwide) - Death angel often thought to be God's/Satan's assistant
- Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
- Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
- Guardian angel (Christian, Jewish, and Islamic belief) - Subclassification of angels that guard and protect a specific person or living being
- Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
- Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
- Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
- Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
- Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
- Gumiho (Korean mythology) - Demonic fox with thousands of tails believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails
- Gurumapa (Nepalese) - Child-eating demon
- Gwyllgi (Welsh) - Black dog
- Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
- Gyascutus (American folklore) - Four-legged herbivore
- Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - Black dog
- Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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