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List of species in folklore and mythology by type
This is a list of creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales by their classification or affiliation. Creatures from modern fantasy fiction and role-playing games are not included.
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Creatures associated with air and weather
This listing includes birds and other flying creatures.
- Ariel
- Boobrie
- Djinn
- Dragon
- Elemental
- Erinyes
- Firebird
- Gargoyle
- Garuda
- Griffin
- Harpy
- Nue
- Odin's ravens, Hugin and Munin
- Pegasus
- Phoenix
- Raiju
- Roc
- Simurgh
- Sphinx
- Stymphalian Birds
- Sylph
- Tzafrir
- Yuki-onna
- Zephyr
Artificial creatures
This listing includes creatures that are man-made, mechanical or of alchemical origins.
Bears
Creatures associated with blood
Boars and pigs
Bovines (bulls and cows)
Cats
This listing includes both domestic and wild cats, as well as great cats such as lions and tigers.
Deer, Stags and Antelope
Demons
Dogs
This listing includes wolves, jackals and other canines.
Dragons
- see List of dragons
Creatures associated with the earth
This listing also includes subterranean and cave-dwelling creatures.
Elves, Fairies, Nymphs and house spirits
- Bannik
- Boggart
- Brownie
- Changeling
- Domovoi
- Dryad
- Elf
- Fairy
- Gremlin
- Imp
- Kikimora
- Knocker
- Leprechaun
- Naiad
- Nereid
- Nix
- Nymph
- Oceanid
- Pixie
- Pookha / Puck
- Redcap
- Seelie
- Sidhe
- Spriggan
- Sprite
- Tennin
- Titania
- Tomte
- Tonttu
- Vetter
- Vila
Creatures assocociated with the eyes
- Argus/Panoptes
- Catoblepas
- Cyclopes
- Hitotsume-kozou
- Lamia
Creatures associated with fertility and human sexuality
Creatures associated with fire
Creatures associated with fortune, wealth and wishes
Foxes
Giants
Goats
- Amalthea
- Capricorn
- Satyr
- Sidehill Gouger
- Thor's magical goats, Tanngnjóstr and Tanngrisnir
Horses
This listing also includes ponies, mules and other equestrians.
- Centaur
- Chiron
- Haizum
- Hippocampus
- Hippogriff
- Karkadann
- Kelpie
- Pegasus
- Sileni/Silenus
- Slepnir
- Unicorn
Humanoids and monstrous humans
- Abarimon
- Abatwa
- Baba Yaga
- Beast (as in Beauty and the...)
- Bestia
- Bigfoot
- Bogeyman
- Bunyip
- Caliban
- Cyclopes
- Ghoul
- Giant / Giantess
- Gigantes
- Grendel
- Hag
- Hitotsume-kozou
- Jotuns
- Nukekubi
- Ogre / Ogress
- Oni
- Rokurokubi
- Samebito
- Titan
- Troll
- Trowe
- Vampire
- Wendigo
- Yama-uba
- Yeti
- Yowie
- Yuki-onna
Hybrids (part-human)
Hybrids (non-human)
Creatures associated with ice and winter
Insects, arachnids and arthropods
Otherworldly and spiritual creatures
- Angel
- Cerberus
- Charon
- Daemon
- Demon
- Deva
- Devil
- Elemental
- Genius
- Geryon
-
God/deity
- see also list of deities
- Houri
- Loa
- Nahual
- Orisha
- Psychopomp
- Spirit
- Tennin
- Totem
- Youkai
- Yuki-onna
Plants and fungi
Rabbits
Serpents, snakes and worms
- Amphisbaena
- Apep/Apophis
- Azhi Dahaka
- Basilisk
- Cockatrice
-
Dragon
- see also List of dragons
- Drake
- Echidna
- Fafnir
- Gorgons
- Hoopsnake
- Hydra
- Jaculus/Jaculi
- Jasconius
- Jormungand
- Lamia
- Medusa
- Naga
- Nidhogg
- Ouroboros
- Python
- Sea serpent
- Tarasque
- Wyvern
Shapeshifters
Undead creatures
- Banshee
- Gaki
- Ghost
- Jikininki
- Mummy
- Nukekubi
- Phantom
- Poltergeist
- Rusalka
- Sluagh
- Spectre
- Spirit
- Vampire
- Wili
- Will o' the wisp
- Wraith
- Yuurei
- Zombie
Creatures associated with water
This listing includes fish, whales, turtles, frogs and other aquatic and amphibious creatures
- Afanc
- Bunyip
- Capricorn
- Charybdis
- Dragon
- Elemental
- Fur-bearing trout
- Hippocampus
- Kami
- Kappa (mythical creature)
- Kelpie
- Kraken (giant squid)
- Lake monster
- Leviathan
- Loch Ness monster
- Mermaid
- Merrow
- Nereid
- Nix
- Nymph
- Pisces
- Ri
- Samebito
- Sea monster
- Sea serpent
- Siren
- Taniwha
- Tiamat
- Triton
- Undine
- Zaratan
Last updated: 01-01-2005 02:14:15