List of legendary creatures (Y)


  1. Yacumama – Sea monster
  2. Yacuruna – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet
  3. Yadōkai – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
  4. Yagyō-san – Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
  5. Yaksha – Male nature spirit
  6. Yakshi – Vampire
  7. Yakshini – Female nature spirit
  8. Yakubyō-gami – Disease and misfortune spirit
  9. Yale – Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
  10. Yali – Lion like creature often symbolic for protecting temples
  11. Yallery-Brown – Nature spirit
  12. Yama – Wrathful god
  13. Yama-biko – Echo spirit
  14. Yama-bito – Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
  15. Yama-chichi – Monkey-like mountain spirit
  16. Yama-inu – Dog-like mountain spirit
  17. Yama-otoko – Mountain giant
  18. Yamata no Orochi – Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
  19. Yama-uba – Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
  20. Yama-waro – Hairy, one-eyed spirit
  21. Yanari – Spirit which causes strange noises
  22. Yaoguai – Animalistic demon or fallen gods
  23. Yara-ma-yha-who – Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
  24. Yatagarasu – Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
  25. Yato-no-kami – Serpent spirits
  26. Yeth hound – Headless dog
  27. Yeti – Mountain bigfoot
  28. Yilbegän – Either a dragon or a giant
  29. Yobuko – Mountain dwelling spirit
  30. Yōkai – Supernatural monster
  31. Yomotsu-shikome – Underworld hag
  32. Yong – Korean dragon
  33. Yōsei – Fairy
  34. Yosuzume – Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
  35. You Hun Ye Gui – Wandering ghost
  36. Yowie – Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
  37. Ypotryll – Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
  38. Yuan Gui – Distressed ghost
  39. Yukinko – Childlike snow spirit
  40. Yuki-onna – Female snow spirit
  41. Yūrei – Ghost
  42. Yuxa – 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human