List of legendary creatures (T)

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  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. Taowu (Chinese) – A stubborn beast
  14. Tapairu (Mangaia) – Nature spirit
  15. Tapio (Finnish) – Forest deity
  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. Tatsu – Japanese dragon
  22. Taurokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed bull
  23. Tchico
  24. Teju Jagua (Guaraní) – Lizard with seven dog heads
  25. Tecumbalam (Mayan) – Bird
  26. Teke Teke (Japanese) – Vengeful spirit of a slain schoolgirl with a half upper-torso body
  27. Tek-ko-kui (Taiwanese) – Bamboo ghost
  28. Tengu (Japanese) – Anthropomorphic bird
  29. Tennin (Japanese) – Angelic humanoid
  30. Te-no-me (Japanese) – Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
  31. Tepegoz (Azerbaijani) – Azerbaijani mythical creature similar to the cyclops Polyphemus
  32. Terrible Monster (Jewish) – Lion-eagle-scorpion hybrid made from the blood of murder victims
  33. Teumessian Fox (Greek) – Gigantic fox
  34. Te Wheke-a-Muturangi (Māori) – Gigantic octopus
  35. Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) – Animal-headed humanoid
  36. Three hares (Many cultures worldwide) – Symbolic animal
  37. Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) – Solar bird
  38. Thunderbird (Native American) – Avian lightning bird spirit
  39. Thor (Norse mythology) – God of thunder and storm
  40. Tiangou (Chinese) – Meteoric dog
  41. Tianlong (Chinese) – Celestial dragon
  42. Tibicena (Canarian) – Evil dog
  43. Tiddy Mun (English) – Bog spirit
  44. Tigmamanukan (Philippine) – Asian fairy bluebird
  45. Tigris (Jewish) – Giant lion
  46. Tikbalang (Philippine) – Anthropomorphic horse
  47. Tikoloshe (Zulu) – Little people and water spirit
  48. Timingila (Hindu) – Sea monster
  49. Tipua (Māori) – Spirit that protects a specific place
  50. Titan (Greek) – Primeval god
  51. Tiyanak (Philippine) – Demons that are souls of dead unbaptized babies
  52. Tizheruk (Inuit) – Sea serpent
  53. Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) – Shapeshifting vampire
  54. Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) – Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
  55. Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) – Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
  56. Tomte (Scandinavian) – House spirit
  57. Topielec (Slavic) – Water spirit
  58. Tōtetsu (Japanese) – Greed spirit
  59. Tooth fairy
  60. Toyol (Malay) – Servant spirit
  61. Trasgo (Spanish and Portuguese) – Grotesque, mischievous little people
  62. Trauco (Chilota) – Fertility spirit
  63. Trenti (Cantabrian) – Diminutive demon
  64. 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
  65. Tripurasura (Hindu) – Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
  66. Tritons (Greek) – Male human-fish hybrid
  67. Troll (Norse) – Nature spirit
  68. Trow (Orkney and Shetland) – Little people and nature spirits
  69. Tsi-noo (Abenaki) – Vampiric demon
  70. Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Shapeshifting, giant spider
  71. Tsuchinoko (Japanese) – Plump snake-like creature
  72. Tsukumogami (Japanese) – Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
  73. Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) – Giant nature spirit
  74. Tsurara-onna (Japanese) – Icicle woman
  75. Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) – Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people
  76. Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) – Evil shapeshifter
  77. Tylwyth Teg (Welsh) – Nature spirit
  78. Tulpa
  79. Tunda
  80. Tupilaq (Inuit) – Animated construct
  81. Turehu (Māori) – Pale spirit
  82. Türst (Swiss) – legendary figure who turns people into dogs
  83. Turul (Hungarian) – Giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars
  84. 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
  85. Typhon (Greek) – Winged, snake-legged giant
  86. Tzitzimitl (Aztec) – Skeletal star spirit