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A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
- Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirit
- Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
- Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white; malevolent and black
- Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
- Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
- Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
- Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
- Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
- Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
- Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus; general term for any kind of human/demon hybrid
- Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
- Camulatz (Mayan) - Bird that ate the heads of the first men
- Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
- Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
- Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
- Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
- Čhápa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
- Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
- Carbuncle (Latin America) - Small creature with a jewel on its head
- Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
- Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
- Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
- Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
- Centicore Indian mythology Indian- Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
- Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
- Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
- Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
- Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
- Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
- Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
- Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
- Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
- Changeling (European) - Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
- Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
- Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
- Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
- Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
- Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
- Chickcharney (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid
- Chimbwe (hyena) in Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania) mythology
- Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
- Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
- Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
- Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
- Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
- Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
- Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
- Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
- Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savage with dog teeth
- Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
- Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram
- Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
- Chupacabra (Latin America) - Cryptid beast, named for its habit of sucking the blood of goats and other livestock
- Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
- Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
- Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghost of women that died in childbirth
- Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
- Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
- Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
- Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
- Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
- Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
- Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
- Cofgod (English) - Cove god
- Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
- Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
- Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
- Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
- Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
- Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
- The Cu Bird (Mexican) - El Pájaro Cu; a bird.
- Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
- Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
- Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
- Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
- Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
- Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
- Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dog
- Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giant
- Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
- Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
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