List of legendary creatures (G)

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Baroque Medusa (A gorgon) combined beauty and horror: Medusa, after 1590, by Caravaggio.

Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (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
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shape shifting desert anthropophagus, often classified as undead.
Giant (Worldwide) - Humanoid creatures of immense size and strength
Giant animal (Worldwide) - Unusually large beasts
Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and 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) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
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)- A demon 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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