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Pages in category "Fantasy creatures" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bandersnatch; C.
Pages in category "Medieval European legendary creatures" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of medieval bestiaries. The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James and revised by Florence McCulloch in 1959–1962. Latin bestiaries
Revenant – (French, English, Irish) Medieval walking corpses which escape their Graves and supernaturally invade homes to attack the living; Roggenmuhme – (German) female demon who is the mother of the Feldgeisters, light and dark elves who haunt the household and farmer's fields. Rusalka – Slavic water spirits.
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 – Giant, chthonic boar
Poukai – monstrous predatory bird, likely based on an extinct species; Shahbaz (Persian mythology) – a god who helped the Iranian peoples and guided the Faravahar to the Iranian lands; Triple-headed eagle (multi-cultural) – Wuchowsen - (Abenaki) One of the four wind spirits in Abenaki lore. Depicted as a giant eagle who lives atop a mountain.
There are a number of lists of fictional species: Extraterrestrial. List of fictional extraterrestrials (by media type)
Medieval European legendary creatures (8 C, 65 P) Melusine (14 P) Merfolk (3 C, 10 P) P. Pig-faced women (4 P, 7 F) Portuguese legendary creatures (7 P) R.