Mythical Creatures List

Famous Mythical Creatures

Basilisk - A legendary lizard who could kill a man with its stare.

Bigfoot - A type of Sasquatch native to North American forests.

Black Dog - An evil spirit dog that stalks city streets at night.

Black Eyed Beings - They take human form but have black, soulless eyes and emanate a sense of pure evil.

Bray Road Beast - The nickname for a werewolf-like creature seen multiple times in Wisconsin.

Centaur - Half-men, half-horse creatures that ran wild and unruly.

Cerberus - The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.

Charybdis - The whirlpool on one side of the Strait of Messina that swallowed ships that came too close to it.

Chimera - Part-lion, part-goat, part-snake - all monster.

Cockatrice - A flying part-rooster/part-snake that could kill with its stare.

Count Dracula - The most famous vampire in all of legend.

Cyclops - The one-eyed giant who captured and ate people.

Cynocephalus - A member of an ancient race of men with the heads of dogs.

Demon - Maelevolent spirits of Hell who try to take peoples souls.

Doppelganger - Apparitions of people that occur in impossible situations.

Dragon - Giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who often guard treasure.

Echidna - The snake-woman who became the mother of most Greek monsters.

Elf - Pointy-eared humanoids who excel in magic and archery.

Frankenstein's Monster - Mary Shelley's patchwork monster built from body parts of the deceased.

Ghost - Spirits of the dead whose souls remain in the realm of the living.

Golem - Magically animated human-shaped creatures typically made of solid stone.

Gorgon - The snake-haired and snake-bodied humanoid that was created in its mother's image. Its stare could turn a person to stone. Medusa became one of these creatures in a later myth.

Griffin - A creature with the body of a lion, the tail of a snake, and the head and wings of an eagle.

Grim Reaper - The embodiment of death itself, the Grim Reaper comes to take your soul to the afterlife.

Hydra - The nine-headed serpent who grew two new heads for every one that was cut off.

Imp - Small, mischievous creatures who liked to play pranks on people.

Ladon (Python) - The snake that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides.

Loch Ness Monster - The elusive sea-monster from the Loch Ness in Scotland.

Manticore - A mythical beast with a lion's body and a human's head.

Medusa - The disciple of Athena who was turned into a gorgon. She had the hair of snakes and could turn men to stone with her gaze.

Mermaids - Sea creatures with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish.

Minotaur - The creature with the head and legs of a bull and the torso of a man, who guarded the exit to The Labyrinth.

Mothman - A winged creature in the shape of a man with hypnotic red eyes sighted in West Virginia.

Mutants - A term describing abnormal creatures created by genetic or environmental mutations.

Nemean Lion - The giant lion with impenetrable hide who becomes the constellation Leo.

New Jersey Devil - A flying creature with a high-pitched scream and a horse-like head native to the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Ogre - An ugly, oversized humanoid creature with great physical strength and little intelligence.

Orthros - The two-headed monster dog.

Pegasus - Technically the proper name of Bellerophon's winged horse, which became the general name for winged horses.

Phoenix - The golden bird who, at the end of its life, burst into flames only to be reborn again.

Sasquatch - Large, hairy, man-like beasts that live in the woods.

Satyr - Half-men, half-goats who were wild and lustful. The god Pan was one of these.

Scylla - The man-eating beast that lived on the opposite side of the Strait of Messina from Charybdis.

Sea Monsters - The generic term for several breeds of water-based monsters.

Sea-Goat - The half-goat, half-fish who are the children of Pricus, who becomes the constellation Capricorn.

Shade - The ghosts of dead people before they are admitted entrance to Hades.

Shapeshifters - Humans who can willingly take the form of an animal while maintaining their consciousness.

Sirens - Man-eating beautiful women whose song compels men to them.

Sphinx - The half-human, half-lion that forces those it meets to answer its riddles, or die.

Thunderbird - A giant bird that creates storms with its wings.

Typhon - The fire-breathing giant who challenged Zeus for control of Mount Olympus. Also the father of most Greek monsters.

Unicorn - A magical horse with a single horn on its forehead.

Vampire - Legend's most charming bloodsucker gets a whole section of this website all to itself.

Wendigo - An evil spirit that possesses humans and turns them into cannibals.

Will-o'-the-wisp - Strange flame-like lights that seem to beckon travelers to follow.

Werewolf - Human by day, wolf by night.

Wraith - Evil spirits of the dead who are trapped on Earth.

Zombie - The living dead who feed on human flesh.