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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
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- Onikuma Demon-Bear - Demon bear, Steals horses (Japanese)
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- 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)
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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, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
- Vulkodlak
- Werewolf - A human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (European)
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- 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 (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 - a monstrous, highly aggressive 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 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)
- White horse
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- 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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- 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)
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- Rat king - phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
- Wolpertinger
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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:
Habitats, creatures associated with
- see Mythic humanoids
Hybrids
- see List of hybrid creatures
Astronomical objects, creatures associated with
Plants, creatures associated with
- see List of shapeshifters
Times, creatures associated with
Corporeal
Miscellaneous
