List of legendary creatures (D)


  1. Dactyl – Little people and smith and healing spirits
  2. Daemon – Incorporeal spirit
  3. Dahu – Similar to a deer or ibex; legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side
  4. Daidarabotchi – Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
  5. Daitengu – Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
  6. Daitya – Giant
  7. Dandan – Sea creature
  8. Danava – Water demon
  9. Dark Watchers
  10. Dark elf
  11. Datsue-ba – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
  12. Dead Sea Apes – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
  13. Ded Moroz – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
  14. Deer Woman – Human-deer hybrid
  15. Deity – Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
  16. Demigod – Half human, half god
  17. Demons - Evil spirits that torment mortals
  18. Dhampir – Human/vampire hybrid
  19. Diao Si Gui – Hanged ghost
  20. Dilong – Earth dragon
  21. Dip – Demonic and vampiric dog
  22. Di Penates – House spirit
  23. Dipsa – Extremely venomous snake
  24. Dirawong – Goanna spirit
  25. Diting - Horned White Canine
  26. Di sma undar jordi – Little people and nature spirits
  27. Diwata – Tree spirit
  28. Djall – Devil
  29. Dobhar-chu – King otter
  30. Do-gakw-ho-wad – Little people
  31. Dokkaebi – Grotesque, horned humanoids
  32. Dökkálfar – Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
  33. Dola – Tutelary and fate spirit
  34. Domovoi – House spirit
  35. Doppelgänger – Ghostly double
  36. Drac – Lion or bull-faced dragon
  37. Drac – Winged sea serpent
  38. [Dragons in Greek mythology|Greek mythology|Drakon] – Greek dragons
  39. Drakaina – Dragons depicted with female characteristics
  40. Dragon – Fire-breathing and winged reptiles
  41. Dragon turtle – Giant turtle with dragon-like head
  42. Drangue – Semi-human winged warriors
  43. Draugr – Undead
  44. Drekavac – Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
  45. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  46. Drop Bear – Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
  47. Drow – Cavern spirit
  48. Drude – Possessing demon
  50. Druk – Dragon
  51. Dryad – Tree nymph
  52. Duende – Little people and forest spirits
  53. Duergar – Malevolent little people
  54. Dullahan – Headless death spirit
  55. Duwende – Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
  56. Dvergr – Subterranean little people smiths
  57. Dvorovoi – Courtyard spirit
  58. Dwarf – Little people nature spirits
  59. Dybbuk – Spirit that possesses the living
  60. Dzee-dzee-bon-da – Hideous monster
  61. Dzunukwa – Child-eating hag