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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)
Bare-fronted Hoodwink
Bennu - Self-creating deity, Phoenix (Egyptian)
Bird People
Cockatrice
Caladrius - White bird with healing powers (Roman)
Cetan - A hawk spirit (Native American - Lakota tribe of North and South Dakota)
Chamrosh - The body of a dog, head & wings of a bird (Persian Myth)
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 - (Hindu, Buddhist)
Giant Penguin
Griffin - Guards treasure and priceless possessions (Greek)
Harpy - Ugly winged bird woman, steals food (Greek)
Hræsvelgr

Horus – Deity (Egypt)
Hugin and Munin - Two ravens that serve as messengers (Norse mythology)
Nachtkrapp
Oozlum bird - (Australian and British folk tales)
Owlman - compared to America's Mothman (England)
Phoenix - (Greek)
Ra
Roc
Sarimanok
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 - Heavenly dogs (Japan)
Three-legged bird (various cultures)
Thunderbird - (Native American, American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains)
Thoth
Turul
Vermilion Bird - (Chinese)
Vucub Caquix
Ziz - Giant griffin (Jewish)
Zu

see also Category:Legendary birds

Bovines

see also Category:Mythological bovines

Camelids

Allocamelus - A donkey-headed camel.

Canines

Adlet
Amarok
Anubis - jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife (Egypt)
Aralez
Asena
Axehandle hound
Black dog (Barghest) - 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)

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, subspecies of racoon dog (Japan)
Vulkodlak
Werewolf - A human, shapeshifts to a wolf because of an affliction, lycanthrope (Greek)
Grim - jet-black dog of giant, bear-like size, and is pertained to be spectral. It has a pair of yellow eyes that can gleam in an ominous way. (English)

see also Category:Mythological canines

Caprids

Amalthea
Aries
Capricornus
Chimera
Faun
Goldhorn, also known as Zlatorog

Heiðrún, a goat in Norse mythology, which produces mead for the einherjar
Khnum
Satyr
Sidehill gouger
Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, Thor's magical goats

see also Category:Mythological caprids

Cnidarians

Kurage-no-hinotama

Equines

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)
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 - like the unicorn (India, Persia)
Kelpie or Bäckahästen or Each Uisge - Water-horse, sometimes vicious (Scotland, Ireland)

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 transformation of an aborted fetus, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines)
Uchchaihshravas - a seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu)
Unicorn - A white horse with a spiral horn, a symbol of purity and grace(Greek)
White horse

see also Category:Mythological horses

Felines

Manticore
Narasimha
Nekomata
Nemean Lion
Panther
Phantom cat
Sekhmet
Sphinx
Surrey Puma
Tigris – giant lion of the forest of Bei Ilai
Underwater panther
White Tiger

see also Category:Mythological felines

Fish

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)

see also Category:Mythical fish

Hyenas

Marsupials

Molluscs

Musteloids, mongoose and Civets

Pachyderms

See List of elephants in mythology and religion

Pangolins

Pigs and Boars

Primates

Bigfoot or Sasquatch - Cryptid, animal of the Northwest (America)
Hibagon - Ape-like, similar to Bigfoot, or the Yeti (Japan)
Shug Monkey - A dog/monkey (Britain)
Sun Wukong

Vanara
Yeren - Man-Monkey, cryptid hominid, resides in remote mountainous (China)
Yeti - Abominable Snowman, ape-like cryptid similar to Bigfoot, that inhabits the Himalayas (Nepal, Tibet)
Yowie - hominid said to live in the Australian wilderness, a cryptid similar to the Himalayan Yeti (Australia)

see also Category:Mythological monkeys

Rabbits and hares

Al-mi'raj - rabbit with unicorn horn (Islam)
Jackalope

Moon rabbit - a rabbit living on the moon
Skvader
Wolpertinger

see also Category:Mythological rabbits and hares

Reptiles, limbed

Note: see Dragon

Ammut - female demon, funerary deity and animal hybrid (Egypt)
Basilisk - king of serpents, has the power to cause death with a single glance (Europe)
Black Tortoise - one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations
Chinese Dragon - serpentine creature with four legs
Cipactli - sea monster, part crocodile, fish and toad. Always hungry, thousands of mouths (Spanish, Aztec)
Dragon - serpentine, reptilian traits (worldwide)
Emela-ntouka
Kasai Rex - cryptid, living dinosaur (Congo)

Kongamato
Kurma
Loch Ness Monster - sea monster cryptid (Scotland)
Makara
Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu
Mokele Mbembe
Ngoubou
Reptilian humanoids
Sewer alligator
Sobek
Taniwha
Wyvern
Zaratan

see also Category:Legendary reptiles

Rodents

Rat king - phenomena when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails (Germany, France)
Wolpertinger

see also Category:Mythological rodents

Serpents and worms

see also Category:Legendary serpents

Monotremes

Peluda

Xenarthrans

Mapinguari

Insectivores

Lavellan

Artificial creatures

This listing includes creatures that are man-made, mechanical or of alchemical origins.

Automaton (worldwide) - self-operating machine; most famous example is Greek mythology's Talos
Blodeuwedd (Welsh) - wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Frankenstein's monster
Galatea (Greek) - ivory statue carved by Pygmalion
Golem (Jewish) - animated humanoid construct
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Nephele (Greek) - nymph formed from a cloud by Zeus to resemble the goddess Hera
Shabti (Egyptian) - A clay model used as workers

Tokeloshe (Zulu mythology)- diminutive, hairy humanoid with various magical powers
Tsukumogami (Japanese)- objects that come to life, of their own accord, after 100 years
Tupilaq (Inuit)- large statues brought to life to serve witches and shamans
Ushabti (Egyptian) - Clay guardians/assistants
Various objects animated by gods, demons and spirits in mythology, legend and folklore

Body parts, creatures associated with

Blood

Note: see Vampires

Bone

Eye

Face

Hair

Head

Limb

Asura(Indian)
Deva / Devi(Indian)
Hekatonkheires

Mouth

Skin

Tail

Neck and Torso

Manananggal

Concepts, creatures associated with

Evil eye

Basilisk
Balor of the Evil Eye - king of the Fomorians, a race of giants, and a cyclops (Irish)
Catoblepas
Cockatrice

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)

Immortality and death