List of legendary creatures (G)


  1. Gaasyendietha – Dragon
  2. Gagana – Iron-beaked bird with copper talons
  3. Gaki – Ghosts of especially greedy people
  4. Gaokerena - Mythic plant
  5. Gallu – Underworld demons
  6. Galtzagorriak – Small demonic servants
  7. Gamayun – Prophetic human-headed bird
  8. Gana – Attendants of Shiva
  9. Gancanagh – Male fairy that seduces human women
  10. Gandabherunda – Double-headed bird
  11. Gandharva – Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
  12. Gargouille – Water dragon
  13. Garkain – Flying humanoid who envelops his victims
  14. Garmr – Giant, ravenous hound
  15. Garuda – Human-eagle hybrid
  16. Gashadokuro – Giant malevolent skeletons
  17. Gaueko – Wolf capable of walking upright
  18. Geb – God of the Earth, married to Nut
  19. Ged – The fish pike
  20. Gegenees – Six-armed giant
  21. Genderuwo – Ape-like mystery
  22. Genius loci – Spirit that protects a specific place
  23. German – Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
  24. Geryon – Three-headed six-armed giant with three torsos and six legs
  25. Ghillie Dhu – Tree guardian
  26. Ghost – Disembodied spirits of those that have died
  27. Ghost riders
  28. Ghoul – Cannibalistic shapeshifting desert genie often classified as undead.
  29. Giant – Immensely large and strong humanoids
  30. Giant animal – Unusually large beasts
  31. Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw – Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid water spirit
  32. Gidim – Ghost
  33. Gigantes – Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
  34. Gigelorum – Smallest animal
  35. Girtablilu – Human-scorpion hybrid
  36. Gjenganger – Corporeal ghost
  37. Glaistig – Human-goat hybrid
  38. Glashtyn – Malevolent water horse
  39. Gnome – Diminutive Earth elemental
  40. Goblin – Grotesque, mischievous little people
  41. Gog – Giant protector of London
  42. Gold-digging ant – Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
  43. Goldhorn
  44. Golem – Animated construct
  45. Gorgades – Hairy humanoid
  46. Gorgon – Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
  47. Goryō – Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
  48. Grassman – Ape-like cryptid
  49. Gremlin – Creatures that sabotage airplanes
  50. Griffin – Lion-eagle hybrid
  51. Grigori – Fallen angels, father of Nephilim
  52. Grim – Tutelary spirits of churches
  53. Grim Reaper – Death angel often thought to be God's/Satan's assistant
  54. Grindylow – Malevolent water spirit
  55. Grootslang - Large snake often associated with diamonds
  56. Gualichu – Malevolent spirit
  57. Guardian angel – Subclassification of angels that guard and protect a specific person or living being
  58. Gud-elim – Human-bull hybrid
  59. Guhin – Anthropomorphic bird
  60. Gui Po – Ghost that manifests as an old woman
  61. Gui Shu – Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
  62. Gulon – Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
  63. Gumiho – Demonic fox with thousands of tails believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails
  64. Gurangatch - An enormous reptile-fish whose movements carved out the landscape south of the Blue Mountains
  65. Gurumapa – Child-eating demon
  66. Gwyllgi – Black dog
  67. Gwyllion – Malevolent spirit
  68. Gyascutus – Four-legged herbivore
  69. Gytrash – Black dog
  70. Gyūki – Bull-headed monster