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List of legendary creatures (C)

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Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
Camazotz (Mayan) – Underworld bat spirit
Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
Cath Palug (Welsh) – Monstrous cat
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetus (Greek) - Large sea monster
Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
Chareng (Meitei) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chimimōryō (Chinese/Japanese) – Spirits of mountains and rivers
Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
Chōchin'obake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
Chort (Slavic) – Malign spirit or demon
Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
Chullachaki
Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
Chut (Belarusian) – Household spirit
Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
Cofgod (English) – Cove god
Coinchenn (Irish) – Sea monster
Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
Curruid (Irish) – Sea monster
Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid

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