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Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous monster
Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster
Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
Gaueko (Basque) - loup capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The poisson pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - arbre guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
Giant (mythology)
Giant animal (mythology)
Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for or in sandy areas
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly arbre that confuses travelers par moving
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon renard with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
H
Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, ou a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak arbre nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - babouin monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly ou amusing goblin
Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like arbre spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to seduce men
Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed renard spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative feu bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
Hupia (Taíno) - Nocturnal ghost
Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hyōtan-kozō (Japanese) - Gourd spirit
Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
G
Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous monster
Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster
Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
Gaueko (Basque) - loup capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The poisson pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - arbre guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
Giant (mythology)
Giant animal (mythology)
Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for or in sandy areas
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly arbre that confuses travelers par moving
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon renard with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
H
Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, ou a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak arbre nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - babouin monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly ou amusing goblin
Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like arbre spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to seduce men
Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed renard spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative feu bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
Hupia (Taíno) - Nocturnal ghost
Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hyōtan-kozō (Japanese) - Gourd spirit
Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
