List of legendary creatures (L)

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A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak. Rangda statue.jpg
A statue of Rangda, the queen of the Leyak.
  1. La-bar-tu (Assyrian) – Disease demon
  2. Labbu (Akkadian) – Sea snake
  3. Lady midday (Slavic) – Sunstroke spirit
  4. Ladon (Greek) – Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
  5. Laelaps (Greek) – Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
  6. Laestrygonians (Greek) – Anthropophagic giants
  7. Lakanica (Slavic) – Field spirit
  8. Lake monster (Worldwide) – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world
  9. Lakhey (Nepalese) – Demon with fangs
  10. La Llorona (Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning
  11. Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
  12. Lambton Worm (English) – Giant worm
  13. Lamia (Greek) – Child-devouring monster with a upper body of a woman and a tail of a snake
  14. Lamiak (Basque) – Water spirit with duck-like feet
  15. La Mojana (Colombian) – Shapeshifting, female water spirit
  16. Lampades (Greek) – Underworld nymph
  17. Landvættir (Norse) – Nature spirits
  18. Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
  19. Lares (Roman) – House spirit
  20. La Sayona (Venezuela) – Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
  21. La Tunda (Colombian) – Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
  22. Lava bear – Miniature bear thought to inhabit the lava beds of south central Oregon
  23. Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) – Field spirit
  24. Lauma (Baltic) – Sky spirit
  25. Lavellan (Scottish) – Gigantic water rat
  26. Leanan sidhe (Celtic) – Fairy lover
  27. Leanashe (Irish) – Possessing spirit or vampire
  28. Leimoniads (Greek) – Meadow nymph
  29. Leokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed lion
  30. Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) – Tiny animal poisonous to lions
  31. Leprechaun (Irish) – Cobbler spirit
  32. Leszi (Slavic) – Tree spirit
  33. Leuce (Greek) – White poplar tree nymph
  34. Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) – Crocotta-lion hybrid
  35. Leviathan (Jewish) – Sea monster seen in Job 41
  36. Leyak (Balinese) – Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
  37. Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-horse hybrid
  38. Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-goat hybrid
  39. Lidérc (Hungary) – Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
  40. Lietuvēns (Latvia) - Soul of a murdered person
  41. Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) – Magical bird found at sites of lightning strikes
  42. Likho (Slavic) – One-eyed hag or goblin
  43. Lilin (Jewish) – Night-demoness
  44. Lilitu (Assyrian) – Winged demon
  45. Limnades (Greek) – Lake nymph
  46. Lindworm (Germanic) – Dragon
  47. Ljósálfar (Norse) – Sunlight spirits; the Light Elves
  48. Ljubi (Albanian) – Demoness
  49. Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) – Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
  50. Loch Ness Monster (Scottish) – Serpentine sea monster
  51. Loki (Norse mythology) – God of night
  52. Lo-lol (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
  53. Lóng – Chinese dragon
  54. Long Ma (Chinese) – Dragon-horse hybrid
  55. Loogaroo (French America) – Shapeshifting, female vampire
  56. Lou Carcolh (French) – Snake-mollusk hybrid
  57. Loup-garou (French) – Werewolf
  58. Loveland frog (American Folklore) (Ohio) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
  59. Lubber fiend (English) – House spirit
  60. Luduan (Chinese) – Truth-detecting animal
  61. Lugat (Albanian) – Vampire
  62. Lui-kong-tsiau (Taiwanese) – Thunderbird
  63. Luison (Guaraní) – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog
  64. Lusca – Sea Monster
  65. Lutin (French) – Amusing goblin
  66. Lyngbakr
  67. Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline guide spirit

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