List of legendary creatures (H)


  1. Hábrók – listed as the "best" hawk
  2. Hadhayosh – gigantic land animal
  3. Hades – Ruler of the Underworld
  4. Haetae – dog-lion hybrid
  5. Hag – wise old woman who is usually a malevolent spirit or a disguised goddess
  6. Haietlik – water serpent
  7. Halloi - natural maiden spirits of celestial origin
  8. Hai-uri – male cannibalistic partially invisible monster
  9. Hakutaku – talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
  10. Hākuturi – nature guardian
  11. Half-elf – human-elf hybrid
  12. Haltija – spirit that protects a specific place
  13. Hamadryad – oak tree nymph
  14. Hamingja – personal protection spirit
  15. Hamsa – mystic bird
  16. Hanau epe – long-eared humanoid
  17. Hantu Air – shapeshifting water spirit
  18. Hantu Demon – demon
  19. Hantu Raya – demonic servant
  20. Harionago – humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
  21. Harpy – birdlike human-headed death spirit
  22. Haugbúi – undead being who lives in its burial mound
  23. Havsrå – saltwater spirit
  24. Helloi – celestial maidens, daughters of the Sky God Salailen
  25. Headless Horseman – humanoid spirit who haunts or kills
  26. Headless Mule – fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
  27. Hecatonchires – primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
  28. Heikegani – crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
  29. Heinzelmännchen – household spirit
  30. Hejkal
  31. Helead – fen nymph
  32. Hellhound – underworld dog
  33. Heracles – gatekeeper of Olympus
  34. Hercinia – glowing bird
  35. Herensuge – dragon
  36. Hesperides – nymph daughters of Atlas
  37. Hidebehind – nocturnal forest creature
  38. Hiderigami – drought spirit
  39. Hieracosphinx – falcon-headed sphinx
  40. Hihi – baboon monster
  41. Hiisi – nature guardian
  42. Hippalectryon – a horse-rooster hybrid
  43. Hippocamp – horse-fish hybrid
  44. Hippogriff – hybrid of a griffin and horse; a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
  45. Hippopodes – horse-hoofed humanoid
  46. Hircocervus – deer-goat hybrid
  47. Hitodama – ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
  48. Hitotsume-kozō – one-eyed childlike spirit
  49. Hob – house spirit
  50. Hobbididance – malevolent spirit
  51. Hobgoblin – friendly or amusing goblin
  52. Hodag – frog-mammoth-lizard hybrid
  53. Hokhokw – bird
  54. Hōkō – dog-like Chinese tree spirit
  55. Hó͘-ko͘-pô – a tiger spirit
  56. Hồ ly tinh – nine-tailed fox spirit
  57. Homa – eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
  58. Hombre Caiman – human-alligator hybrid
  59. Hombre Gato – human-cat hybrid
  60. Homunculus – small animated construct
  61. Hō-ō – rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
  62. Hoopoe – near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
  63. Hoop snake – snake which rolls by taking its tail in its mouth
  64. Horned Serpent – serpentine rain spirit
  65. Hotoke – deceased person
  66. Houri – heavenly beings
  67. Hraesvelg – Jötunn, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings
  68. Hrímþurs – Rime or frost jötunn
  69. Huaychivo – human-deer hybrid
  70. Hudhud – a legendary hoopoe bird
  71. Hue-tsiau – firebird
  72. Huginn and Muninn – pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin whose names mean Thought and Memory
  73. Huldufólk – secret mound/rock dwelling elves
  74. Hulder – forest spirit
  75. Huli jing – nine-tailed fox spirit
  76. Huma – regenerative fire bird
  77. Humbaba – lion-faced giant
  78. Hundun – chaos spirit
  79. Hupia – nocturnal ghost
  80. Hyakume – hundred-eyes creature
  81. Hydra – multi-headed water serpent/dragon
  82. Hydrus (or Hydros) – a water snake with various abilities
  83. Hyōsube – hair-covered kappa
  84. Hypnalis – snake that kills its victims in their sleep