List of legendary creatures (S)

Saci (Brazilian) – One-legged nature spirit

Sack Man (Worldwide)

Sagari (Japanese) – Horse head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū

Sakabashira (Japanese) – Haunted pillar, installed upside-down

Salamander (Alchemy) – Fire elemental

Samebito (Japanese) – Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea

Samodiva (Slavic) – Nature spirit

Sampati (Hindu) – The demigod Jatayu's brother

Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children

Sango (South Western Nigeria) – Yoruba king of arts, music, dance and entertainment

Santelmo (Philippine) – Spirits in the form of fireballs that roam around the forest

Santa Claus (North Pole-European folklore) – Elderly man who delivers gifts to well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve

Sânziană (Romanian) – Nature spirit

Sarimanok (Philippine) – Bird of good fortune

Sarngika (Hindu) – Bird spirit

Sarugami (Japanese) – Wicked monkey spirit who was defeated by a dog

Satori (Japanese) – Mind-reading humanoid

Satan (Heaven-Abrahamic mythology) – Ruler of Hell

Satyr (Greek) – Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit

Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates

Sayona

Sazae-oni (Japanese) – Shapeshifting turban snail spirit

Sceadugenga (English) – Shapeshifting undead

Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake which mesmerizes its prey

Scorpion Man (Sumerian) – Human-scorpion hybrid

Schrat

Scylla (Greek) – Human-snake hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve legs, and six long-necked snake heads

Sea-bee (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed bee

Sea-lion

Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid

Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals

Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster

Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed wyvern

Seko (Japanese) – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night

Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) – Human-seal shapeshifter

Senbiki Okami - Wolf spirits

Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) – Human-faced frog which guides newly deceased souls to the graveyard

Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake with corrosive venom

Serpent (Worldwide) – Snake spirit

Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) – Serpent-leopard hybrid

Shachihoko (Japanese) – Tiger-carp hybrid

Shade (Worldwide) – Spiritual imprint

Shadow People (American) – Malevolent ghost

Shahbaz (Persian) – Giant eagle or hawk

Shaitan (Islam) – Islamic version of the Devil (Satan) from the Bible

Shang-Yang (Chinese) – Rain bird

Shapeshifter

Shedim (Jewish) – Chicken-legged demon

Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion

Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) – Water spirit

Shen (Chinese) – Shapeshifing sea monster

Shenlong (Chinese) – Weather dragon

Shibaten (Japanese) – Water spirit from Shikoku

Shikigami (Japanese) – Servant spirit

Shiki-ōji (Japanese) – Child-sized servant spirit

Shikome (Japanese) – Underworld hag

Shinigami (Japanese) – "Death god"

Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) – White, faceless spirit

Shirouneri (Japanese) – Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth

Shiryō (Japanese) – Spirit of a dead person

Shisa (Japanese) – Lion-dog hybrid

Shishi (Chinese) – Protective animal

Shōjō (Japanese) – Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol

Shōkera (Japanese) – Creature that peers in through skylights

Shtriga (Albanian) – Vampire witch that feeds on children

Shui Gui (Chinese) – Drowned ghost

Shug Monkey (English) – Dog/monkey

Shunoban (Japanese) – Red-faced ghoul

Shuten-dōji (Japanese) – Ruler of the Oni

Sídhe – (Irish and Scottish) – Ancestral or nature spirit

Sigbin (Philippine) – Goat-like vampire

Sihuanaba

Sileni (Greek) – Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus

Simargl (Slavic) – Winged dog

Simurgh (Persian) – Dog-lion-peacock hybrid

Singa (Batak) – Feline animal

Sint Holo (Choctaw) – Serpentine rain spirit

Siren (Greek) – Human-bird hybrid

Sirin (Slavic) – Demonic human-headed bird

Sirrush (Akkadian) – Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs

Sisiutl (American Indian) – Two-headed sea serpent

Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) – Red-haired giants

Sjörå (Norse) – Freshwater spirit

Šišiga

Sjövættir (Norse) – Sea spirit

Skin-walker (American Indian) – Animal-human shapeshifter

Skogsrå (Scandinavian) – Forest spirit

Sköll (Norse) – Wolf that chases the Sun

Skookum (Chinook Jargon) – Hairy giant

Skeleton (Medieval folklore) – Living skeletons

Skrzak (Slavic) – Household spirit

Sky Women (Polish) – Weather spirit

Slavic dragon

Sleipnir (Norse) – Eight-legged horse

Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) – Restless ghost

Snow Lion (Tibetan) – Celestial animal

Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves

Sōgenbi (Japanese) – Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk

Soragami (Japanese) – Ritual disciplinary demon

Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) – Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut

Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) – Ghost with an abacus

Sōtangitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit from Kyoto

Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) – Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night

Spearfinger (Cherokee) – Sharp-fingered hag

Spectre (Worldwide) – Terrifying ghost

Sphinx (Greek) – Winged woman-headed lion

Spiriduş (Romanian) – Little people

Spirit – Ghosts

Spriggan (Cornish) – Guardians of graveyards and ruins

Sprite (Medieval folklore) – little people, ghosts or elves

Squonk (American) – Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears

Stihi (Albanian) – Demonic dragon who guards a treasure

Strigoi (Romanian) – Vampire

Strix (Roman) – Vampiric bird

Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet

Strzyga (Slavic) – Vampiric undead

Stuhać (Slavic) – Malevolent mountain spirit

Stymphalian Bird (Greek) – Metallic bird

Suangi (New Guinea) – Cannibalistic sorcerer

Succubus (Judeo-Christian) – Female night-demon and seductress

Sudice (Slavic) – Fortune spirit

Sunakake-baba (Japanese) – Sand-throwing hag

Sundel Bolong (Indonesian mythology) - ghost of a woman with beautiful long black hair and a long white dress known for a large hole on its back.

Sunekosuri (Japanese) – Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night

Sun Wukong

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Supernatural beings in Slavic religion

Surma (Finnish) – Hellhound

Suzaku (Japanese) – Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird

Svaðilfari (Norse) – Unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir

Svartálfar (Norse) – Cavern spirits; the Black Elves

The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) – Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid

Swan maiden (Worldwide) – Swan-human shapeshifter

Sylph (Alchemy) – Air elemental

Sylvan (Medieval folklore) – Forest spirit

Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) – African giant

Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) – Reptilian humanoid