List of legendary creatures (B)


  1. Ba – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
  2. Baba Yaga – Forest spirit and hag
  3. Babi ngepet – Monster boar
  4. Baccoo – Malevolent little people
  5. Badalisc – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
  6. Bagiennik – Malevolent water spirit
  7. Bahamut – Very powerful dragon-like demon
  8. Bai Ze – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
  9. Ba Jiao Gui – Banana tree spirit
  10. Bak – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
  11. Bake-kujira – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
  12. Bakeneko – Magical cat
  13. Bakezōri – Animated straw sandal
  14. Bakhtak – Night demon named Shaina
  15. Baku – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
  16. Bakunawa – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
  17. Balaur – Multi-headed dragon
  18. Baloz – Sea monster
  19. Bannik – Bathhouse spirit
  20. Banshee – Screaming death spirit
  21. Baobhan Sith – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
  22. Bardha – Mountain spirit
  23. Bardi – Shapechanging death spirit
  24. Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
  25. Bar Juchne – Gigantic bird
  26. Barnacle Geese – Geese which hatch from barnacles
  27. Barometz – Plant-lamb hybrid
  28. Barong – Tutelary spirit
  29. Basajaun – Ancestral, megalith-building race
  30. Baš Čelik – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
  31. Bashe – Elephant-swallowing serpent
  32. Basilisco Chilote – Chicken-serpent hybrid
  33. Basilisk – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
  34. Basty - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
  35. Bathala – Primordial god of creation
  36. Batibat – Female night-demon
  37. Batsu – Drought spirit
  38. Baubas – Malevolent spirit
  39. Bauk – Darkness beast
  40. Baykok – Flying skeleton
  41. Beast of Bray Road – Werewolf
  42. Beast of Gévaudan – French werewolf
  43. Beast of the Earth
  44. Bean Nighe
  45. Behemoth – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
  46. Bendigeidfran – Giant king
  47. Bennu – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to the Phoenix
  48. Berehynia – Water spirit
  49. Bergrisar – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar in Jotunheim
  50. Bergsrå – Mountain spirit
  51. Bestial beast – Centauroid specter
  52. Betobeto-san – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
  53. Bhūta – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
  54. Bi-blouk – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
  55. Bicorn – Human-faced cow that feeds on good men
  56. Bichura – House spirit that can take the form of cats or dogs
  57. Bies – Demon
  58. Bigfoot – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
  59. Binbōgami – Spirit of poverty
  60. Biscione - Large grass snake
  61. Bishop-fish – Fish-like humanoid
  62. Biwa-bokuboku – Animated biwa
  63. Bixi – Dragon with the shell of a turtle
  64. Black Annis – Blue-faced hag
  65. Black Dog – Canine death spirit
  66. Black Lady of Bradley Woods – Female ghost which reportedly haunts the woods near the village of Bradley, Lincolnshire, England
  67. Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
  68. Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
  69. Blemmyae – Headless humanoid with face in torso
  70. Bloody Bones – Water bogeyman
  71. Błudnik – Mischievous gnome
  72. Blue Crow – Giant amazonian bird
  73. Bluecap – Mine-dwelling fairy
  74. Bodach – Malevolent spirit
  75. Bogeyman – Malevolent spirit
  76. Boggart – Malevolent household spirit
  77. Boginki – Nature spirit
  78. Bogle – Malevolent spirit
  79. Boi-tatá – Giant snake
  80. Bolla – Dragon
  81. Bolotnik – Male swamp spirit
  82. Bonnacon – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
  83. Boo Hag – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
  84. Boobrie – Roaring water bird
  85. Boroboroton – Animated futon
  86. Bozaloshtsh – Death spirit
  87. Brag – Malevolent water horse
  88. British big cat – mysterious black panther
  89. Brownie – Benevolent household spirit
  90. Broxa – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
  91. Bucca – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
  92. Bokkenrijders – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
  93. Bugbear – Bearlike goblin
  94. Buggane – Ogre-like humanoid
  95. Bugul Noz – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
  96. Bukavac – Six-legged lake monster
  97. Bulgae – Fire dog
  98. Bunyip – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
  99. Bunny Man Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
  100. Bush Dai Dai – Spirit that seduces and kills men
  101. Byangoma – Fortune-telling birds
  102. Bysen – Diminutive forest spirit