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List of legendary creatures (B)

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Ba (Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
Baba Yaga (Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
Babi ngepet (Indonesia) – Monster boar
Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
Bagiennik (Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (Arabian) – Very powerful dragon-like demon
Bai Ze (Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
Bake-kujira (Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
Bakeneko (Japanese) – Magical cat
Bakezōri (Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
Bakhtak (Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
Baku (Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
Bakunawa (Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
Balaur (Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
Baloz (Albanian) – Sea monster
Bannik (Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit
Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
Bardha (Albanian) – Mountain spirit
Bardi (Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
Bar Juchne (Jewish) – Gigantic bird
Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barometz (Medieval folklore) – Plant-lamb hybrid
Barong (Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
Basajaun (Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
Baš Čelik (Serbian) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
Bashe (Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk (Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
Basty (Turkic) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
Bathala (Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
Batibat (Philippine) – Female night-demon
Batsu (Chinese) – Drought spirit
Baubas (Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
Bauk (Slavic) – Darkness beast
Baykok (Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) – Werewolf
Beast of Gévaudan (France) – French werewolf
Beast of the Earth
Bean Nighe (Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Behemoth (Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
Bendigeidfran (Welsh) – Giant king
Bennu (Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
Berehynia (Slavic) – Water spirit
Bergrisar (Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
Bergsrå (Norse) – Mountain spirit
Bestial beast (Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
Betobeto-san (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
Bicorn – Human-faced cow that feeds on good men
Bichura (Turkic) – House spirit that can take the form of cats or dogs
Bies (Slavic) – Demon
Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
Binbōgami (Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
Biscione (Heraldic) - Large grass snake
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) – Animated biwa
Bixi (Chinese) – Dragon with the shell of a turtle
Black Annis (English) – Blue-faced hag
Black Dog (British) – Canine death spirit
Black Lady of Bradley Woods (English) – Female ghost which reportedly haunts the woods near the village of Bradley, Lincolnshire, England
Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bloody Bones – Water bogeyman
Błudnik (Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
Blue Crow (Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
Bluecap (English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
Bodach (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman (English) – Malevolent spirit
Boggart (English) – Malevolent household spirit
Boginki (Slavic) – Nature spirit
Bogle (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
Boi-tatá (Brazilian) – Giant snake
Bolla (Albanian) – Dragon
Bolotnik (Slavic) – Male swamp spirit
Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boo Hag (American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
Boobrie (Scottish) – Roaring water bird
Boroboroton (Japanese) – Animated futon
Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) – Death spirit
Brag (English) – Malevolent water horse
British big cat (English) – mysterious black panther
Brownie (English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
Broxa (Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bucca (Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
Bokkenrijders (Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
Bugbear (English) – Bearlike goblin
Buggane (Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
Bugul Noz (Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
Bukavac (Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
Bulgae (Korean) – Fire dog
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
Byangoma (Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit

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