Animals, creatures associated with
Antelopes and deer
Aquatic and marine mammals
Arthropods
Bats
- Balayang (Australian)-
- Chupacabra (Latin American)- Alleged creature reputed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, occasionally described with bat-like features.
- Camazotz (Mayan bat-god)
- Leutogi (Polynesian)
- Minyades (Greek)- Three sisters who refused to take part in the worship of Dionysus, and turned into bats by Hermes.
- Nyctimene (Roman)- Transformed into a bat by Minerva.
- Tjinimin (Australian)
- Vetala (Hindu)- Vampiric entity that takes over cadavers.
Bears
Birds
- 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)
- Alicanto – bird with luminescent feathers which feeds on gold or silver (Chilean)
- Bare-fronted Hoodwink
- Bennu – self-creating deity, Phoenix (Egyptian)
- Bird People
- Cockatrice
- Caladrius – white bird with healing powers (Roman)
- Cetan – hawk spirit (Native American – Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota)
- Chamrosh – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird (Persian Myth)
- Chol (Biblical mythology) – regenerative bird
- 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 – known as the primordial bird and the progenitor of all birds; vehicle of Lord Vishnu (Hindu, Buddhist)
- Griffin – guards treasure and priceless possessions (Greek)
- Harpy – ugly winged bird woman, steals food (Greek)
- Hræsvelgr – giant who takes the form of an eagle (Norse mythology)
- Horus – deity (Egypt)
- Hugin and Munin – two ravens that serve as messengers (Norse mythology)
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- Itsumade – monstrous bird with a human face (Japan)
- Minokawa – Giant, Dragon-like bird in Philippines (Philippines)
- Nachtkrapp – (The Night Raven)
- Oozlum bird – (Australian and British folk tales)
- Owlman – compared to America’s Mothman (England)
- Pamola – bird/moose spirit who causes cold weather (Abenaki)
- Phoenix – (Greek)
- Piasa – Enormous bird outside of Alton Illionis, memorialized on rock painting;[1] last reported sighting 1973 when the bird carried off two children [2]
- Ra – Deity (Egypt)
- Rain Bird – bird who brought rain (Native American)
- Roc – enormous legendary bird of prey
- Shangyang – rainbird (Chinese)
- Simurgh
- Sirin – birds with women heads, lured men to their death (Russia, Greek)
- Strix – owl that ate human flesh (Greek)
- Stymphalian birds – man-eating birds (Greek)
- Tengu – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog (Japan)
- Three-legged bird (various cultures)
- Thunderbird – (Native American, American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains)
- Thoth – deity (Egypt)
- Turul – mythological bird of prey
- Vermilion Bird – (Chinese)
- Vucub Caquix – bird demon
- Yatagarasu – three-legged crow
- Zhenniao – poisonous bird (Chinese)
- Ziz – giant griffin (Jewish)
- Zu – divine monster depicted as a lion-headed eagle
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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)
- Gelert
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- Hellhound – supernatural dog, bringers of death (worldwide)
- Huli jing or Kitsune or Kumiho – Fox spirits, like Fairies (China, Japan, Korea)
- Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek)
- Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese)
- Salawa – Egyptian Cryptid, possibly fennec Foxes
- Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
- Shug Monkey – 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)
- Vǎrkolak, or “Vukodlak” (Slavic) – undead vampire werewolf
- Werewolf – human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Worldwide)
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Caprids
Chicken
- Sarimanok a legendary chicken of the Maranao people who originate from Mindanao (Philippines)
Equines
- Anggitay – is a creature with the upper body of a female human and the lower body of a horse from waist down (Philippines)
- Arion – Talking immortal horse (Greek)
- Buraq – Al-Burāq, steed from the heavens that transported the prophets (Islam, Persian Art)
- Centaur – head, arms, and torso of a human, the body and legs of a horse (Greek)
- Cheval Gauvin – horse which tries to kill its rider (French/Swiss)
- Cheval Mallet; horse that tempts and kidnaps weary travelers (French)
- Chiron – centaur believed to be exceptional among his brethren (Greek)
- Haizum – 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 – 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 – monstrous, highly aggressive unicorn (India, Persia)
- Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge – water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)
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- Longma – fabled winged horse with dragon scales (China)
- Nuckelavee – 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 – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
- Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
- Unicorn horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide)
- White horse
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Felines
Fish
Hyenas
- Werehyena
- Kishi – cannibalistic two-faced demon, half-human half-hyena(Africa)
Marsupials
Molluscs
Musteloids, mongoose and civets
Pachyderms
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)
- Shōjō – anthropomorphic spirit, depicted as furred, somewhat confounded with orangutan (Japan)
- Shug Monkey – dog/monkey (Britain)
- Sun Wukong (proper name) – powerful warrior-magician in the form of a monkey who hatched from a stone egg (China)
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Rabbits and hares
Reptiles, limbed
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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Serpents and worms
Monotremes
Xenarthrans
Procyonids
- Azeban is a lower-level trickster spirit in Abenaki mythology. The traditional homeland of the Abenaki is Wobanakik (Place of the Dawn), what is now called northern New England and southern Quebec. Azeban (also spelled Azban, Asban or Azaban) is a raccoon, the Abenaki trickster figure. Pronounced ah-zuh-bahn. Azeban does many foolish and/or mischievous things in Abenaki folktales, but unlike animal tricksters in some other tribes, is not dangerous or malevolent.
Insectivores
- Lavellan A Lavellan, làbh-allan, la-mhalan or la-bhallan etc. is a mythological creature from northern Scotland. It was generally considered to be a kind of rodent, and indeed the name “làbh-allan” is also used for a water shrew or water vole in Scottish Gaelic. It was however, reportedly larger than a rat, very noxious, and lived in deep pools in rivers. Its poisonous abilities were legendary, and it was said to be able to injure cattle over a hundred feet away.
Ungulates
Cryptid animals
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
Limbs
Mouth
Skin
Tail
Neck
Torso
Concepts, creatures associated with
Evil eye
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- Gorgon – 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 – second eldest of the three vicious Gorgon sisters (Greek)
- Stheno – eldest of the Gorgon Sisters (Greek)
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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 and subterranean
Fire
Light and rainbow
Metal and gold
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
References
