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List of legendary creatures (K)

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Kabouter (Dutch) – Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) – Nature spirit
Kahaku (Japanese) – Little people and water spirits
Kajsa (Scandinavian) – Wind spirit
Kalakeyas (Hindu) – Descendants of Kala
Kallikantzaroi (Greek) – Grotesque, malevolent spirit
Kamaitachi (Japanese) – Wind spirit
Kamatayan (Philippine) – Philippine counterpart of Death
Kami (Japanese) – Nature spirit
Kamikiri (Japanese) – Hair-cutting spirit
Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) – Bathroom spirit
Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
Kanbo (Japanese) – Drought spirit
Kanedama (Japanese) – Money spirit
Kappa (Japanese) – Little people and water spirit
Kapre (Philippine) – Malevolent tree spirit
Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
Karakura (Turkish) – Male night-demon
Karasu-tengu (Japanese) – Tengu with a bird's bill
Karkadann (Persian) – One-horned giant animal
Karkinos (Greek) – Giant crab
Karura (Japanese) – Eagle-human hybrid
Karzełek (Polish) – Little people and mine spirits
Kasa-obake (Japanese) – Animated parasol
Kasha (Japanese) – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
Kashanbo (Japanese) – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
Katawa-guruma (Japanese) – Woman riding on a flaming wheel
Katsura-otoko (Japanese) – Handsome man from the Moon
Katallan (Albanian) – Man-eating giant
Kaukas (Lithuanian) – Nature spirit
Kawa-uso (Japanese) – Supernatural river otter
Kawa-zaru (Japanese) – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
Kayeri (Cuiva) - Mushroom-like monster
Ke'lets (Chukchi) – Ogre or evil spirit
Keelut (Inuit) – Hairless dog
Kee-wakw (Abenaki) – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
Keibu Keioiba (Meitei) – Man with the body of a human but the head of a tiger
Kekkai (Japanese) – Amorphous afterbirth spirit
Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) – Malevolent water horse
Ker (Greek) – Female death spirit
Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) – Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
Keukegen (Japanese) – Disease spirit
Keythong (Heraldic) – Wingless griffin
Khalkotauroi (Greek) – Bronze-hoofed bulls
Khyah (Nepalese) – Fat, hairy ape-like creature
Kigatilik (Inuit) – Night-demon
Kholomodumo (Sotho) – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
Kijimunaa (Japanese) – Tree sprite from Okinawa
Kijo (Japanese) – She-devil
Kikimora (Slavic) – Female house spirit
Killmoulis (English and Scottish) – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
Kinnara (Hindu) – Human-bird hybrid
Kin-u (Japanese) – Bird
Kirin (Japanese) – Japanese Unicorn
Kishi (Angola) – Malevolent, two-faced seducer
Kitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit
Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) – Person possessed by a fox spirit
Kiyohime (Japanese) – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love
Klabautermann (German) – Ship spirit
Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
Knucker (English) – Water dragon
Kobalos (Greek) – Goblin like thieves and tricksters
Kobold (German) – Little people and mine or house spirits
Kodama (Japanese) – Tree spirit
Kofewalt (Germanic) – House spirit
Ko-gok (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
Kokakuchō (Japanese) – Ubume bird
Komainu (Japanese) – Protective animal
Konaki-jiji (Japanese) – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
Konoha-tengu (Japanese) – Bird-like creature
Konrul (Turkic) – Bird that is reborn
Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) – Little people
Korrigan (Breton) – Little people and nature spirits
Koshchei (Russian) – Villainous figure that is unkillable, usually by hiding "his death" inside objects to protect it
Koto-furunushi (Japanese) – Animated koto
Kraken (Scandinavian) – Sea monster
Krasnoludek (Slavic) – Little people nature spirits
Krasue (Southeast Asian) – Vampiric, floating head
Krampus (Germany) – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
Kting Voar (Southeast Asian) – Snake eating cattle
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) – Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) – Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) – Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) – Miniature fox spirit
Kudan (Japanese) – Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity before dying
Kui (Chinese) – One-legged monster
Kujata (Arabian) – Cosmic bull
Kukudhi (Albanian) – Female demon who spreads sickness
Kukwes (Mi'kmaq) – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
Kulshedra (Albanian) – Drought-causing dragon
Kumakatok (Philippine) – Death spirits
Kumiho (Korean) – Fox spirit
Kun (Chinese) – Giant fish
Kupua (Hawaiian) – Shapeshifting tricksters
Kurabokko (Japanese) – Guardian spirit of a warehouse
Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) – Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
Kurma (Hindu mythology) – Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
Kurupi (Guaraní) – Wild man and fertility spirit
Kushtaka (Tlingit) – Shapeshifting "land otter man"
Kye-ryong (Korean) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyourinrin (Japanese) – Animated scroll or paper
Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) – Nine-tailed fox
Kyūketsuki (Japanese) – Vampire king

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