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Abarimon – Savage race of people with backwards feet. •
Ala – Female demon that brings bad weather to farms in Balkan folklore. •
Alp – Nightmare creature from Germanic Mythology. •
Anguane – (Germany, Austria) Female spirits with hooves and dangling breasts. Associated with aiding lost persons and in female fertility. •
Arkan sonney – Fairy creature resembling a pig in Manx folklore. •
Astomi – Legendary race of people who had no mouths and no need to eat or drink anything at all, surviving by smelling apples, flowers, and perfumes. •
Baba Yaga –
Slavic witch, crone and liminal guardian to the Otherworld. •
Bannik – Slavic bathhouse spirit. •
Banshee – Female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member by screaming, shrieking, or
keening. •
Basajaun, Basandere – (Basque) Hairy woodland spirit. • Baumseele – (German) The personified spirits of sacred trees, which may or may not be elves. •
Blafard – Albinos long surmised by Europeans to be the result of some kind of
simian crossbreeding. •
Blemmyes (or ) – Legendary race of people with no heads and facial features on their chests. •
Bluecap – (English) Elf like beings of the mines, who sometimes appear as a floating blue flame or an elf in a blue cap. Seen as derivation to Redcap. •
Boggart – Household spirits or . •
Boogeyman – A featureless, androgynous creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior. •
Brownie – Scottish household spirit, performs tasks at night, independent, changeable. •
Bugbear – Type of hobgoblin comparable to the bogeyman. •
Centaur, Greek
kentaurides – Men and women with the lower bodies of horses in Greek mythology. •
Changeling – Fae child left in place of a human child stolen by the fae. •
Clurichaun – Irish fairy resembling a leprechaun. •
Crone – Old woman who may be characterized as disagreeable, malicious, or sinister, often magical or supernatural, making her either helpful or not. •
Cyclops – Grotesque, one-eyed humanoids, sons of Uranus in Greek myth. •
Cynocephalus – Dog-headed humans. • Dearg Due – (Irish) A woman who was driven to suicide by her husband's cruelty, then rose from her grave as a vampire. Targets and seduces young men. •
Demon – (Abrahamic religions) Malevolent beings associated with the devil in Christianity, often depicted in humanoid form. •
Dhampir – (Albanian, Slavic) half human, half vampire, resulting from the mating of a male vampire and human woman exclusively. •
Dökkálfar – Dark elves in Nordic mythology. •
Domovoi – Protective house spirit in Slavic folklore. •
Doppelgänger – Look-alike or double of a living person. • Drak – (German) Elf partly shapeshifted into a lizard. Likely represents the Hazel Worm as the protective spirit motif in German culture. A French version called a drac is said to be a type of lutin or French elf. •
Draugar – (Norse) Undead creatures that guard their burial mounds. •
Dryad – Tree nymph or tree spirit from Greek mythology. •
Dullahan – Irish fairy, the headless rider. •
Dwarf – (Germanic) Human-shaped being often dwelling in mountains and in the earth. •
Elf – Supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. •
Empusa (or empousa, empousai) – A shape-shifting being with a copper leg in Greek mythology. •
Erinyes – Greek female chthonic deities of vengeance. •
Fairy – Mythical spirits or legendary creatures in European folklore, also known as fae or fair folk among many other names. Commonly depicted as having beautiful insectoid wings. •
Faun – Humanoid beings with the horns and lower bodies of goats. •
Fetch – (Irish) An exact, spectral double of a living human; can appear as an omen. •
Fext – (Slavic) Undead warriors who can only be killed with bullets made of glass. • Finmen – (Scottish) Mermaid like beings from Orkney lore. •
Fomorians – (Irish) Army of monstrous troll-like/goblin-like humanoid beings. •
Furies – Greek goddesses of vengeance. •
Gargoyle – (French) Carved or formed grotesques said to scare away demons. •
German – (Slavic) A farm protective spirit. Mock burials of an effigy of it were held to summon rain or fair weather for their crops. •
Giant,
giantess – Large beings of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. •
Gigantes – Race of great strength, aggression, and size in Greek and Roman mythology. •
Gnome – (Alchemy) Typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground, bearded and wears a
Phrygian cap. •
Goblin – (Medieval folklore) Small, grotesque humanoids. •
Golem – (Jewish) An artificial being of clay created by a Rabbi with a magic spell to defend his community. •
Gorgons – (Greek) Three monstrous sisters commonly depicted with snake hair and other beastly features. Two are immortal, Medusa was not. Anyone who looks at them directly turns into stone. •
Green Man – (English) Folklore figure resembling old man covered in foliage that is carved often in old churches. Possibly the same as the Scottish
Ghillie Dhu. •
Gremlins – Grotesque humanoid creatures commonly depicted as mischievous and inclined to sabotage machinery. •
Hag – A kind of fairy or goddess appearing as wizened elderly woman, neither totally malevolent and sometimes benevolent. •
Haltija – A spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in
Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. •
Harpy – (Greek) Female creatures with bird wings. •
Hecatonchires – in Greek mythology, three sons of Uranus being hundred-handed giants with fifty heads. •
Hobgoblins – Mischievous household spirits. •
Hödekin – (German) Elf like spirit who used to work for a bishop, but eventually came to do several horrific acts to the point that the bishop decided to exorcise him from his home. •
Hulder – Seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore. • Hyter – (English) A lesser known type of fairy who disguise themselves as birds. Also, hikry, hyty or hike. •
Imp – (Medieval folklore) A mischievous mythological being of small size, similar to a fairy or goblin. •
Iratxo – (Basque) Protective, elf-like spirit of farms. Given similar sculptures from Britain hiding secret phalluses, the Romans may have related it to the Greco-Roman God Priapus, who would threaten to rape thieves from farmers' fields. •
Jötunn ( ) – A Norse mythological race that live in Jötunheimr. •
Kabouter – A tiny human-like creatures in Dutch folklore similar to the German kobold or Irish leprechaun. •
Kallikantzaroi – Malevolent goblin-like creatures in Southeast European folklore, believed to dwell underground but come to the surface during the
twelve days of Christmas. •
Karnabo – An elephant-trunked humanoid in
Ardennes folklore. •
Kikimora – Female house spirit in Slavic (especially
Eastern) folklore. •
Kilmoulis (English) – Diminutive minster with no mouth and a giant nose that snorts all its food. •
Klabautermann (or Klabautermannikin, Kaboutermannikin) – A water kobold or nix in German folklore. •
Knocker (or knacker, tommyknocker) – Mischievous subterranean, gnome-like spirits associates with
mines in Celtic folklore. •
Kobalos – An ancient Greek equivalent to a goblin. •
Kobold – Shapeshifting German spirits. •
Korrigan – Breton dwarves or fairies. •
Krsnik – Vampire hunter from Slavic Mythology. •
Lamia – (Greek) Beautiful, child-eating demon with a woman's upper body and a snake tail. In neighbouring Balkan cultures, the Bulgarian Lamya and Albanian Llamja are described as nature spirits similar to the Greek Lamia. •
Lamia (or lamina) – (Basque) Female water spirit with webbed bird feet. •
Lares – Guardian deities of ancient Rome. •
Leanan sídhe – Fairy-like being of Irish folklore. •
Lemures – (Roman) Restless spirits of the dead. •
Leprechaun – (Irish) Little bearded men dressed in green, associated with luck, gold at the end of a rainbow and wishes. •
Lidérc – (Hungarian) Some sort of shapeshifting monster created through magical means which latches onto a person, bestowing upon them riches, but slowly drains them of their lifeforce through sex and blood drinking until they die. •
Ljósálfar – Light elves in Nordic mythology. •
Lutin – A type of hobgoblin in French folklore and fairy tales. Female lutins are called lutines. •
Manticore – Creature with a man's head, a lion's body, bat wings, and a scorpion tail. •
Mauro, Maura (Portugal, Spain) – Class of humanoid beings that appear to relate to ancient Celtic culture, but are quite varied in abilities, appearance and function. Stories seem to random mix of gods, druids, ghosts, nature spirits and the occasional actual Moor invader from Africa. •
Mermaid,
merman – Women and men with the lower bodies of fish. •
Minotaur – (Greek) A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. •
Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans. Usually called the Fates, this is a pan-European concept, with the Roman Parcae, the Scandinavian Norns, Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, the Bulgarian Orisnizi and Slavic Rozhanitsy easily identifiable. •
Monaciello – Little men dressed as monks. •
Monopod – One-legged mythical humanoids. •
Moss people •
Naiad – A type of water nymph. •
Nereid – Female water spirits of Greece. •
Nix – Germanic/ Scandinavian shape-shifting water spirit. Also Neck, Necken, Nixie, Nocken. •
Nymph – (Greek) Female nature spirits. •
Oceanid – Sea nymphs, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. •
Ogre,
ogress – (Medieval folklore) Large, grotesque humanoids. •
Orcs – (Tolkien) Humanoids with grey or green skin and tusks. •
Pixie – Benign fairy-like beings. Also called Peskie. •
Poltergeist – Ghosts known for causing physical disturbances. •
Púca (or pookha, puck) – (Irish) Mischievous shape-changing creatures which can take human form. • Raedieguovlu – (Saami) Restless souls encountered in the wilderness. Place people who pay attention to them into trances, convincing them to wander off and die alone. •
Redcap – Malevolent, murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in the folklore of the
Anglo-Scottish border regions. •
Revenant – (French, English, Irish) Medieval walking corpses which escape their Graves and supernaturally invade homes to attack the living •
Roggenmuhme – (German) Female demon who is the mother of the Feldgeisters, light and dark elves who haunt the household and farmer's fields. •
Rusalka – Slavic water spirits. •
Sandman – Man who puts people to sleep and brings good dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto the eyes of sleeping humans. •
Satyr,
satyress – Humanoid beings or nature spirits with goat-like features such as horns and hooves. •
Seelie – Scottish term meaning "happy" or "blessed", used in several fairy names. •
Selkie – Scottish mythical creature that resembles a seal in the water but assumes human form on land. •
Sidhe – Irish race of fae that make their homes in mounds. •
Siren – Beautiful yet dangerous creatures typically depicted as women-headed birds which lure sailors with their enchanting voices to shipwreck on rocky coasts. •
Slavic fairies – Supernatural beings in Slavic folklore. •
Sluagh – (Irish) Flying hosts of the unforgiven dead in Irish and Scottish folklore •
Sphinx – A creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. •
Spriggan – A grotesquely ugly mischievous fairy or forest spirit from Cornish folklore. •
Sprite – Fairy, ghost, or elf-like creatures. •
Stallo – (Saami) Large, man eating, dim witted, humanoid monster. •
Struthopodes – Humanoids whose males had enormous feet, but whose females had tiny feet. •
Succubus,
incubus – (Judeo-Christian folklore) Seductive demons. •
Svartalfar – Norse for "black elves". •
Sylph – (Alchemy) Mythological air spirit. • Tantugou – (France/ Andorra) Elderly hooded man who watches over land and animal holdings from predators and thieves. Sometimes also kidnaps bad children. •
Taraxippus – (Greek) ghosts of those whose deaths involved horses in some sort of upsetting way. Dedicated altars existed in chariot racing arenas for riders to make offerings, so the ghosts would not upset their horses or try to get them killed. •
Tartalo – (Basque) Cyclops like figure. •
Titans – Anthropomorphic pre-
Olympian gods in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. •
Tonttu – In Finnish mythology, a type of dwarf or goblin-like creature associated with households and farms; associated with the
winter solstice and the Christmas season. •
Troll – (Norse) Large, often grotesque humanoids. •
Trow – (Scottish) Short, ugly spirits. • Tschäggättä – (Alps) Race of hairy monsters that allegedly descend from the arrival of Celts to the region, thousands of years ago. •
Undine – (Alchemy) Water nymph. •
Vættir – Nature spirits in Scandinavian folklore. •
Valkyrie – Female figure from Norse mythology, chooses who lives and who dies in battle. •
Vâlvă – (Romanian) A sort of female fairy or elf like being who are protective over certain resources. Homage is paid to them in return for favors and gifts, but disrespect of either themselves or said gifts leads to retaliation. •
Vampire – Being from Slavic folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence of the living, generally in the form of blood. •
Vila – Slavic version of nymphs or fairies, with the power of the wind. • Vioge – (English) Emaciated scarecrow like monster from Jersey Isle. Grabs people, breaks their ankles and drags them home to eat. •
Weiße Frauen • Werebear –
Ursidae therianthropic creature. •
Werecat – Feline therianthropic creature western version. •
Werewolf – (Medieval folklore) Canine therianthropic creature. • Wraith – (British) Evil spirit who is said to haunt people through negative emotions. •
Wulver – (Scottish) A type of dogman-like spirit from Scotland. •
Xana – Extraordinarily beautiful female creature in
Asturian mythology. •
Zmeu – (Romanian) Dragon-human hybrid monsters. Can fly and breathe fire, but also use weapons and ride horses. == Oceania/Polynesia ==