Jump to content

List of legendary creatures (T)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tikbalang
  1. Tachash (Jewish) – Large land animal
  2. Tailypo (American Folklore) (Appalachia) – Powerful animal, that takes revenge on those who steal its tail
  3. Taimatsumaru (Japanese) – Tengu surrounded in demonic fire
  4. Takam (Persian) – Nature spirit
  5. Taka-onna (Japanese) – Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
  6. Talos (Greek) – Giant made of bronze
  7. Tangie (Scottish) – Shapeshifting water spirit
  8. Taniwha (Māori) – Water spirit
  9. Tantankororin (Japanese) – Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
  10. Tanuki (Japanese) – Shapeshifting raccoon dog
  11. Taotao Mona (Mariana Islands) – Ancestral spirits
  12. Taotie (Chinese) – Greed spirit
  13. Tapairu (Mangaia) – Nature spirit
  14. Tapio (Finnish) – Forest deity
  15. Tarantasio (Italian) – Dragon
  16. Tarasque (French) – Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
  17. Tartalo (Basque) – One-eyed giant
  18. Tartaruchi (Christian) – Demonic punisher
  19. Tatami-tataki (Japanese) – Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
  20. Tatzelwurm – (Alpine Folklore) lizard-like creature, often described as having the face of a cat, with a serpent-like body which may be slender or stubby, with four short legs or two forelegs
  21. TatsuJapanese dragon
  22. Taurokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed bull
  23. Tavara (Trabzon) – Night-demon[citation needed]
  24. Teju Jagua (Guaraní) – Lizard with seven dog heads
  25. Tecumbalam (Mayan) – Bird
  26. Tek-ko-kui (Taiwanese) – Bamboo ghost
  27. Tengu (Japanese) – Anthropomorphic bird
  28. Tennin (Japanese) – Angelic humanoid
  29. Te-no-me (Japanese) – Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
  30. Tepegoz (Azerbaijani) – Azerbaijani mythical creature similar to the cyclops Polyphemus
  31. Terrible Monster (Jewish) – Lion-eagle-scorpion hybrid made from the blood of murder victims
  32. Teumessian Fox (Greek) – Gigantic fox
  33. Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) – Animal-headed humanoid
  34. Three hares (Many cultures worldwide) – Symbolic animal
  35. Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) – Solar bird
  36. Thunderbird (Native American) – Avian lightning bird spirit
  37. Thor (Norse mythology) – God of thunder and storm
  38. Tiangou (Chinese) – Meteoric dog
  39. Tianlong (Chinese) – Celestial dragon
  40. Tibicena (Canarian) – Evil dog
  41. Tiddy Mun (English) – Bog spirit
  42. Tigmamanukan (Philippine) – Asian fairy bluebird
  43. Tigre Capiangos (Argentine) – Jaguar-human shapeshifter
  44. Tigris (Jewish) – Giant lion
  45. Tikbalang (Philippine) – Anthropomorphic horse
  46. Tikoloshe (Zulu) – Little people and water spirit
  47. Timingila (Hindu) – Sea monster
  48. Tipua (Māori) – Spirit that protects a specific place
  49. Titan (Greek) – Primeval god
  50. Tiyanak (Philippine) – Demons that are souls of dead unbaptized babies
  51. Tizheruk (Inuit) – Sea serpent
  52. Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) – Shapeshifting vampire
  53. Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) – Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
  54. Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) – Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
  55. Tomte (Scandinavian) – House spirit
  56. Topielec (Slavic) – Water spirit
  57. Tōtetsu (Japanese) – Greed spirit
  58. Toyol (Malay) – Servant spirit
  59. Trasgo (Spanish and Portuguese) – Grotesque, mischievous little people
  60. Trauco (Chilota) – Fertility spirit
  61. Trenti (Cantabrian) – Diminutive demon
  62. Trickster – Character in a story which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour
  63. Tripurasura (Hindu) – Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
  64. Tritons (Greek) – Male human-fish hybrid
  65. Troll (Norse) – Nature spirit
  66. Trow (Orkney and Shetland) – Little people and nature spirits
  67. Tsi-noo (Abenaki) – Vampiric demon
  68. Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Shapeshifting, giant spider
  69. Tsuchinoko (Japanese) – Plump snake-like creature
  70. Tsukumogami (Japanese) – Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
  71. Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) – Giant nature spirit
  72. Tsurara-onna (Japanese) – Icicle woman
  73. Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) – Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people
  74. Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) – Evil shapeshifter
  75. Tylwyth Teg (Welsh) – Nature spirit
  76. Tunda
  77. Tupilaq (Inuit) – Animated construct
  78. Turehu (Māori) – Pale spirit
  79. Türst (Swiss) – legendary figure who turns people into dogs
  80. Turul (Hungarian) – Giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars
  81. Tyger (Heraldry) – Like a real tiger, but lacks stripes; has the tufted tail of a lion and a thick mane along the neck like a horse
  82. Typhon (Greek) – Winged, snake-legged giant
  83. Tzitzimitl (Aztec) – Skeletal star spirit