List of Mythical Creatures
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A semi-corporeal being whose sole purpose is to scare children.
Bogeyman
A short, stalky humanoid who live in underground mining communities.
Dwarf
Small, bearded men who have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Leprechauns
A small humanoid creature with pointy ears who likes to cause mischief.
Pixie
Mythical Norse female divinities who choose heroes to die in battle and carry them to the great Valhalla.
Valkyries
A spirit appearing as a frenzied old woman whose high pitched shriek prophesied a death soon to come.
Banshee
Malevolent spirits of Hell who battle humans for control of their souls.
Demon
Divine female nature spirits who inhabit certain natural sites.
Nymph
Technically the proper name of Bellerophon's winged horse, which became the general name for winged horses.
Pegasus
Evil spirits of the dead who are trapped on Earth.
Wraith
Half-men, half-horse creatures that ran wild and unruly.
Centaur
A creature with the body of a lion, the tail of a snake, and the head and wings of an eagle.
Griffin
A mythical beast with a lion's body and a human's head.
Manticore
The half-human, half-lion that forces those it meets to answer its riddles, or die.
Spinx
An evil spirit that possesses humans and turns them into cannibals.
Wendigo
The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.
Cerberus
The embodiment of death itself, the ___________ comes to take your soul to the afterlife.
Grim Reaper
The nine-headed serpent who grew two new heads for every one that was cut off.
Hydra
Humans who can willingly take the form of an animal while maintaining their consciousness.
Shapeshifters
Strange flame-like lights that seem to beckon travelers to follow.
Will-o'-the-wisp
The one-eyed giant who captured and ate people.
Cyclops
The snake-haired and snake-bodied humanoid that was created in its mother's image. Its stare could turn a person to stone. Medusa became one of these creatures in a later myth.
Gorgon
A flying creature with a high-pitched scream and a horse-like head native to the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
New Jersey Devil
Half-men, half-goats who were wild and lustful. The god Pan was one of these.
Satyr
The fire-breathing giant who challenged Zeus for control of Mount Olympus. Also the father of most Greek monsters.
Typhon