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Buraq
from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
Ba
(
Egyptian
) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
Baba Yaga
(
Slavic
) – Forest spirit and hag
Babi ngepet
(
Indonesia
) – Monster boar
Baccoo
(
Guyanese
/
Surinamese
) – Malevolent
little people
Badalisc
(
Italian
) – Goat-like creature from the
southern central Alps
Bagiennik (
Slavic
) – Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (
Arabian
) – Very powerful dragon-like demon
Bai Ze
(
Chinese
) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Ba Jiao Gui
(
Chinese
) – Banana tree spirit
Bak
(Indian) –
Assamese
shape-shifting aqueous creature
Bake-kujira
(
Japanese
) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of
Shimane Prefecture
Bakeneko
(
Japanese
) – Magical cat
Bakezōri
(
Japanese
) – Animated straw sandal
Bakhtak
(
Iranian
) – Night demon named Shaina
Baku
(
Japanese
) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
Bakunawa
(
Philippine
) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
Balaur
(
Romanian
) – Multi-headed dragon
Baloz
(
Albanian
) – Sea monster
Bannik
(
Slavic
) – Bathhouse spirit
Banshee
(
Irish
) – Screaming death spirit
Baobhan Sith
(
Celtic Mythology
) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
Bardha
(
Albanian
) – Mountain spirit
Bardi
(
Trabzon
) – Shapechanging death spirit
Barghest
– Yorkshire
black dog
Bar Juchne
(
Jewish
) – Gigantic bird
Barnacle Geese
(
Medieval folklore
) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barometz
(
Medieval folklore
) – Plant-lamb hybrid
Barong
(
Balinese
) – Tutelary spirit
Basajaun
(
Basque
) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
Baš Čelik
(
Serbian
) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer
dehydration
Bashe
(
Chinese
) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
Basilisco Chilote
(
Chilota
) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk
(
Italian
) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
Basty
(
Turkic
) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
Bathala
(
Philippine
) – Primordial god of creation
Batibat
(
Philippine
) – Female night-demon
Batsu
(
Chinese
) – Drought spirit
Baubas
(
Lithuanian
) – Malevolent spirit
Bauk
(
Slavic
) – Darkness beast
Baykok
(
Ojibwa
) – Flying skeleton
Beast of Bray Road
(
American Folklore
) – Werewolf
Beast of Gévaudan
(
France
) – French werewolf
Bean Nighe
(
Irish
) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Behemoth
(
Jewish
) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
Bendigeidfran
(
Welsh
) – Giant king
Bennu
(
Egyptian
) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
Berehynia
(
Slavic
) – Water spirit
Bergrisar
(
Norse
) – Mountain giants who live alongside the
Hrimthursar
(lit. "Rime-Giants") in
Jotunheim
Bergsrå
(
Norse
) – Mountain spirit
Bestial beast
(
Brazilian
) – Centauroid specter
Betobeto-san
(
Japanese
) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
Bhūta
(
Buddhist
and
Hindu
) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bi-blouk
(
Khoikhoi
) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
Bicorn
– Human-faced cow that feeds on good men
Bies
(
Slavic
) – Demon
Bigfoot
(
American Folklore
) – Forest-dwelling hominid
cryptid
.
Binbōgami
(
Japanese
) – Spirit of poverty
Biscione
(
Heraldic
) - Large grass snake
Bishop-fish
(
Medieval Bestiaries
) – Fish-like humanoid
Biwa-bokuboku
(
Japanese
) – Animated
biwa
Black Annis
(
English
) – Blue-faced hag
Black Dog
(
British
) – Canine death spirit
Black Shuck
– Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk
black dog
Blafard
– Imaginary creature from the early
United States of America
Blemmyae
(
Medieval Bestiary
) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bloody Bones
(
Irish
) – Water bogeyman
Błudnik (
Slavic
) – Mischievous gnome
Blue Crow
(
Brazilian
) – Giant amazonian bird
Bluecap
(
English
) – Mine-dwelling fairy
Bodach
(
Scottish
) – Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman
(
English
) – Malevolent spirit
Boggart
(
English
) – Malevolent household spirit
Boginki
(
Slavic
) – Nature spirit
Bogle
(
Scottish
) – Malevolent spirit
Boi-tatá
(
Brazilian
) – Giant snake
Bolla
(
Albanian
) – Dragon
Bonnacon
(
Medieval Bestiaries
) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boo Hag
(
American Folklore
) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
Boobrie
(
Scottish
) – Roaring water bird
Bozaloshtsh
(
Slavic
) – Death spirit
Brag
(
English
) – Malevolent water horse
British big cat
(
English
) – mysterious black panther
Brownie
(
English
and
Scottish
) – Benevolent household spirit
Broxa
(
Jewish
) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bucca
(
Cornish
) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
Bokkenrijders
(
Dutch
) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
Bugbear
(
English
) – Bearlike goblin
Buggane
(
Manx
) – Ogre-like humanoid
Bugul Noz
(
Celtic
) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
Bukavac
(
Serbia
) – Six-legged lake monster
Bunyip
(
Australian Aboriginal
) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Bunny Man
(
American Folklore
)
Virginia
,
Maryland
, and
Washington, D.C.
Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
Bush Dai Dai
(
Guyanese
) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
Byangoma
(
Bengali
) – Fortune-telling birds
Bysen
(
Scandinavian
) – Diminutive forest spirit
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