List of legendary creatures (L)


  1. La-bar-tu – Disease demon
  2. Labbu – Sea snake
  3. Lady midday – Sunstroke spirit
  4. Ladon – Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
  5. Laelaps – Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
  6. Laestrygonians – Anthropophagic giants
  7. Lakanica – Field spirit
  8. Lake monster – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world
  9. Lakhey – Demon with fangs
  10. La Llorona – Death spirit associated with drowning
  11. Lamassu – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
  12. Lambton Worm – Giant worm
  13. Lamia – Child-devouring monster with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a snake
  14. Lamiak – Water spirit with duck-like feet
  15. La Mojana – Shapeshifting, female water spirit
  16. Lampades – Underworld nymph
  17. Landvættir – Nature spirits
  18. Langmeidong – Half-human, half-hornbill creature
  19. Lares – House spirit
  20. La Sayona – Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
  21. La Tunda – Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
  22. Lava bear – Miniature bear thought to inhabit the lava beds of south-central Oregon
  23. Laukų dvasios – Field spirit
  24. Lauma – Sky spirit
  25. Lavellan – Gigantic water rat
  26. Leanan sidhe – Vampiric fairy lover
  27. Leimoniads – Meadow nymph
  28. Leokampoi – Fish-tailed lion
  29. Leontophone – Tiny animal poisonous to lions
  30. Leprechaun – Cobbler spirit
  31. Leszi – Tree spirit
  32. Leuce – White poplar tree nymph
  33. Leucrota – Crocotta-lion hybrid
  34. Leviathan – Sea monster seen in Job 41
  35. Leyak – Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
  36. Libyan Aegipanes – Human-horse hybrid
  37. Libyan Satyr – Human-goat hybrid
  38. Lidérc – Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
  39. Lietuvēns - Soul of a murdered person
  40. Lightning Bird – Magical bird found at sites of lightning strikes
  41. Likho – One-eyed hag or goblin
  42. Lilin – Night-demoness
  43. Lilitu – Winged demon
  44. Limnades – Lake nymph
  45. Lindworm – Dragon
  46. Ljósálfar – Light elves
  47. Ljubi – Demoness
  48. Llamhigyn Y Dwr – Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
  49. Loch Ness Monster – Serpentine sea monster
  50. Loki – Trickster figure
  51. Lo-lol – Hideous monster
  52. Lóng – Chinese dragon
  53. Long Ma – Dragon-horse hybrid
  54. Loogaroo – Shapeshifting female vampire
  55. Lou Carcolh – Snake-mollusk hybrid
  56. Loup-garou – Werewolf
  57. Loveland frog – Humanoid frog cryptid
  58. Lubber fiend – House spirit
  59. Luduan – Truth-detecting animal
  60. Lugat – Vampire
  61. Lui-kong-tsiau – Thunderbird
  62. Luison – Werewolf, or cadaver-eating dog
  63. Lusca – Sea monster
  64. Lutin – Amusing goblin
  65. Lyngbakr - Whale-like sea monster
  66. Lynx – Feline guide spirit