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

Antelopes and deer

Aquatic and marine mammals

Arthropods

Bats

Bears

  • Onikuma Demon-Bear - Demon bear, Steals horses (Japanese)

Birds

Bovines

Camelids

Canines

  • Adlet
  • Amarok
  • Anubis - jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
  • Aralez
  • Asena
  • Axehandle hound
  • Black dog, also known as Barghest, or Grim - 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)

  • 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, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
  • Vulkodlak
  • Werewolf - A human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Worldwide)

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)
  • Cheval Gauvin - a horse which tries to kill its rider (French/Swiss)
  • 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 (French,England)
  • 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 - a monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia)
  • Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge - Water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)

  • 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 (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 creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
  • Uchchaihshravas - a seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
  • Unicorn A horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide)
  • White horse

Felines

Fish

  • 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)

Hyenas

Marsupials

Molluscs

Musteloids, mongoose and civets

Pachyderms

Pangolins

Pigs and Boars

Primates

  • Bigfoot or Sasquatch - Cryptid, animal of the Northwest (America)
  • Hibagon or Hinagon - 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)

Wookie (Star wars)

Rabbits and hares

Reptiles, limbed

Note: see Dragon

Rodents

  • Rat king - phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
  • Wolpertinger

Serpents and worms

Monotremes

Xenarthrans

Procyonids

Insectivores

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

Blood

Bone

Eye

Face

Hair

Head

Limb

Mouth

Skin

Tail

Neck

Torso

Concepts, creatures associated with

Evil eye

  • 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)

Immortality and death

Fertility and human sexuality

Birth and rebirth

Luck and wealth

Sound

Love and romance

Dream and mind

Talk

Note: see Talking animal

Wisdom

Time and Technology

Light

Demons

Elements, creatures associated with

Aether

Air and wind

Darkness

Earth

This listing also includes subterranean and cave-dwelling creatures:

Fire

Light and rainbow

Metal and gold (metalsmith and treasure)

Thunder and lightning

Water

Habitats, creatures associated with

Cave and underground

Celestial and heaven

Desert

Temperate forest and woodland

Tropical forest and jungle

Temperate grassland and garden

Savanna

Lake and river

Mountain and hill

Sea

Swamp and marsh

Volcano and lava

Polar, ice, and Winter

Urban and house

Underworld and hell

Humanoids

see Mythic humanoids

Hybrids

see List of hybrid creatures

Astronomical objects, creatures associated with

Sun

Moon

Constellation

World

Plants, creatures associated with

Shapeshifters

see List of shapeshifters

Times, creatures associated with

Day and diurnal

Night and nocturnal

Undead

Corporeal

Miscellaneous

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