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
Amphibians
- Bugbear (Celtic) - child eating hobgoblin
- Callisto - A nymph who was turned into a bear by Hera.
- Drop Bear - Carnivorous marsupial, unconfirmed legendary animal (Australian)
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- see also Category:Mythological bears
- 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)
- Bare-fronted Hoodwink
- Bennu - Self-creating deity, Phoenix (Egyptian)
- Bird People
- Cockatrice
- Caladrius - White bird with healing powers (Roman)
- Cetan - A hawk spirit (Native American - Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota)
- Chamrosh - The body of a dog, head & wings of a bird (Persian Myth)
- 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 - (Hindu, Buddhist)
- Giant Penguin
- Griffin - Guards treasure and priceless possessions (Greek)
- Harpy - Ugly winged bird woman, steals food (Greek)
- Hræsvelgr
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- see also Category:Legendary birds
Bovines
- see also Category:Mythological bovines
- Adlet
- Amarok
- Anubis - jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
- Aralez
- Asena
- Axehandle hound
- Black dog (Barghest) - 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)
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- 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 - a two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek)
- Penghou - a tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese)
- Salawa - Egyptian Cryptid, possibly fennec Foxes
- Shug Monkey - A dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)
- Shunka Warakin - Resembles a wolf, a hyena, or both. (America)
- Tanuki - Japanese raccoon dog, subspecies of racoon dog (Japan)
- Vulkodlak
- Werewolf - A human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Greek)
- Grim - jet-black dog of giant, bear-like size, and is pertained to be spectral. It has a pair of yellow eyes that can gleam in an ominous way. (English)
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- see also Category:Mythological canines
Caprids
- see also Category:Mythological caprids
Cnidarians
Equines
- Arion - Talking immortal horse (Greek)
- Buraq - Al-Burāq, a steed from the heavens that transported the prophets (Islam, Persian Art)
- Centaur - The head, arms, and torso of a human, the body and legs of a horse (Greek)
- Chiron - A centaur believed to be exceptional among his brethren (Greek)
- Haizum - the horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam)
- Hippocamp - Sea-Horse (Greek)
- Hippogriff - Winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (France)
- Ichthyocentaurs - the 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 - like the unicorn (India, Persia)
- Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge - Water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)
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- Longma - a fabled winged horse with dragon scales (China)
- Nuckelavee - an evil elf, ruins crops, causes epidemics, and drought (Orkney islands, Scotland)
- Onocentaur - part human, part donkey (Ancient 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 - a transformation of an aborted fetus, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
- Uchchaihshravas - a seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
- Unicorn - A white horse with a spiral horn, a symbol of purity and grace(Greek)
- White horse
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- see also Category:Mythological horses
- see also Category:Mythological felines
- Fish People
- Mermaid / Merman - Half-human, half-fish(worldwide)
- water spirit - (worldwide)
- Siren - Women that lure men out to sea with their song to drown them (Greek)
- Undine - Water nymphs, no souls until they marry a human man and bear him a child.(German)
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- see also Category:Mythical fish
Molluscs
Pigs and Boars
- Bigfoot or Sasquatch - Cryptid, animal of the Northwest (America)
- Hibagon - 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)
- Shug Monkey - A dog/monkey (Britain)
- Sun Wukong - Powerful warrior-magician in the form of a monkey who hatched from a stone egg (China)
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- 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)
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- see also Category:Mythological monkeys
- see also Category:Mythological rabbits and hares
- see also Category:Legendary reptiles
Rodents
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- Rat king - phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
- Wolpertinger
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- see also Category:Mythological rodents
- see also Category:Legendary serpents
Xenarthrans
Cryptid animals
See a list of cryptids
Artificial creatures
This listing includes creatures that are man-made, mechanical or of alchemical origins.
Body parts, creatures associated with
Concepts, creatures associated with
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- Gorgon - A 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 - the second eldest of the three vicious Gorgon sisters (Greek)
- Stheno - the eldest of the Gorgon Sisters (Greek)
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Note: see Talking animal
Elements, creatures associated with
This listing also includes subterranean and cave-dwelling creatures:
- see also Category:Mythological water creatures
Habitats, creatures associated with
Temperate forest and woodland
Tropical forest and jungle
Temperate grassland and garden
Aspidochelone
- see Mythic humanoids
Hybrids
- see List of hybrid creatures
Astronomical objects, creatures associated with
- Kua Fu a giant in China
- Three-legged bird in China, Japan
- Phoenix in Greek Mythology
Plants, creatures associated with
- see List of shapeshifters
Times, creatures associated with
Night and nocturnal
Incorporeal
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- Preta
- Spirit - (Worldwide)
- Wili
- Will o' the wisp - Jack o lantern (English)
- Wraith
- Yurei
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- see also Category:Ghosts and Ghosts in Hindu Mythology - Bhoot, Baital & Pishacha
Corporeal
- see also Category:Corporeal undead
Miscellaneous