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. Tapairu (Mangaia) – Nature spirit
  14. Tapio (Finnish) – Forest deity
  15. Tarantasio (Italian) – Dragon
  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. TatsuJapanese dragon
  22. Taurokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed bull
  23. Tavara (Trabzon) – Night-demon[ citation needed ]
  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. Tigre Capiangos (Argentine) – Jaguar-human shapeshifter
  46. Tigris (Jewish) – Giant lion
  47. Tikbalang (Philippine) – Anthropomorphic horse
  48. Tikoloshe (Zulu) – Little people and water spirit
  49. Timingila (Hindu) – Sea monster
  50. Tipua (Māori) – Spirit that protects a specific place
  51. Titan (Greek) – Primeval god
  52. Tiyanak (Philippine) – Demons that are souls of dead unbaptized babies
  53. Tizheruk (Inuit) – Sea serpent
  54. Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) – Shapeshifting vampire
  55. Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) – Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
  56. Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) – Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
  57. Tomte (Scandinavian) – House spirit
  58. Topielec (Slavic) – Water spirit
  59. Tōtetsu (Japanese) – Greed spirit
  60. Tooth fairy
  61. Toyol (Malay) – Servant spirit
  62. Trasgo (Spanish and Portuguese) – Grotesque, mischievous little people
  63. Trauco (Chilota) – Fertility spirit
  64. Trenti (Cantabrian) – Diminutive demon
  65. 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
  66. Tripurasura (Hindu) – Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
  67. Tritons (Greek) – Male human-fish hybrid
  68. Troll (Norse) – Nature spirit
  69. Trow (Orkney and Shetland) – Little people and nature spirits
  70. Tsi-noo (Abenaki) – Vampiric demon
  71. Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Shapeshifting, giant spider
  72. Tsuchinoko (Japanese) – Plump snake-like creature
  73. Tsukumogami (Japanese) – Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
  74. Tsul 'Kalu (Cherokee) – Giant nature spirit
  75. Tsurara-onna (Japanese) – Icicle woman
  76. Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) – Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people
  77. Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) – Evil shapeshifter
  78. Tylwyth Teg (Welsh) – Nature spirit
  79. Tulpa
  80. Tunda
  81. Tupilaq (Inuit) – Animated construct
  82. Turehu (Māori) – Pale spirit
  83. Turkic mythological figures
  84. Türst (Swiss) – legendary figure who turns people into dogs
  85. Turul (Hungarian) – Giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars
  86. 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
  87. Typhon (Greek) – Winged, snake-legged giant
  88. Tzitzimitl (Aztec) – Skeletal star spirit