List of legendary creatures (C)


  1. Cabeiri – Smith and wine spirit
  2. Cacus – Fire-breathing giant
  3. Cadejo – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
  4. Cailleach – Divine creator and weather deity hag
  5. Caipora – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
  6. Caladrius – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
  7. Calingi – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
  8. Callitrix – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  9. Calydonian Boar – Giant, chthonic boar
  10. Calygreyhound – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
  11. Camahueto – One-horned calf
  12. Camazotz – Underworld bat spirit
  13. Cambion – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
  14. Campe – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
  15. Camulatz – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
  16. Candileja – Spectral, fiery hag
  17. Canaima – Were-jaguar
  18. Canotila – Little people and tree spirits
  19. Caoineag – Death spirit
  20. Căpcăun – Large, monstrous humanoid
  21. Carbuncle – Small creature with a jewel on its head
  22. Cath Palug – Monstrous cat
  23. Catoblepas – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
  24. Cat Sidhe – Fairy cat
  25. Ceasg – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
  26. Ceffyl Dŵr – Malevolent water horse
  27. Centaur – Human-horse hybrid
  28. Centicore – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
  29. Cerastes – Extremely flexible, horned snake
  30. Cerberus – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
  31. Cercopes – Mischievous forest spirit
  32. Cericopithicus – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  33. Ceryneian Hind – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
  34. Cetus - Large sea monster
  35. Chakora – Lunar bird
  36. Chalkydri – Angelic birds
  37. Chamrosh – Dog-bird hybrid
  38. Chaneque – Little people and nature spirits
  39. Changeling – Humanoid child substituted for a kidnapped human child
  40. Čhápa – Beaver spirit
  41. Chareng — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
  42. Charybdis – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
  43. Chenoo – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
  44. Chepi – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
  45. Cherufe – Volcano-dwelling monster
  46. Cheval Mallet – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
  47. Cheval Gauvin – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
  48. Chibaiskweda – Ghost of an improperly buried person
  49. Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
  50. Chickcharney – Bird-mammal hybrid
  51. Chimaera – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
  52. Chimimōryō – Spirits of mountains and rivers
  53. Chindi – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
  54. Chinthe – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
  55. Chitauli – Human-lizard hybrid
  56. Chōchin'obake – Animated paper lantern
  57. Chol – Regenerative bird
  58. Chollima – Supernaturally fast horse
  59. Chonchon – Disembodied, flying head
  60. Choorile – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
  61. Chort – Malign spirit or demon
  62. Chromandi – Hairy savage with dog teeth
  63. Chrysaor – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
  64. Chrysomallus – Golden winged ram
  65. Chukwa – Giant turtle that supports the world
  66. Chullachaki
  67. Chupacabra – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
  68. Church grim – Guardian spirit
  69. Churel – Vampiric, female ghost
  70. Chut – Household spirit
  71. Ciguapa – Malevolent seductress
  72. Cihuateteo – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
  73. Cikavac – Bird that serves its owner
  74. Cinnamon bird – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
  75. Cipactli – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
  76. Cipitio
  77. Cirein cròin – Sea serpent
  78. Coblynau – Little people and mine spirits
  79. Cockatrice – Chicken-lizard hybrid
  80. Cofgod – Cove god
  81. Coinchenn – Sea monster
  82. Colo Colo – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
  83. Corycian nymphs – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
  84. Cretan Bull – Monstrous bull
  85. Crinaeae – Fountain nymph
  86. Criosphinx – Ram-headed sphinx
  87. Crocotta – Monstrous dog-wolf
  88. The Cu Bird – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
  89. Cuco – Bogeyman
  90. Cucuy – Malevolent spirit
  91. Cuegle – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
  92. Cuélebre – Dragon
  93. Curruid – Sea monster
  94. Curupira – Nature spirit
  95. Cu Sith – Gigantic fairy dog
  96. Cŵn Annwn – Underworld hunting dog
  97. Cyclops – One-eyed giant
  98. Cyhyraeth – Death spirit
  99. Cynocephalus – Dog-headed humanoid