List of legendary creatures (B)

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Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature Al-Buraf Hafifa.jpg
Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
  1. Ba (Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
  2. Baba Yaga (Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
  3. Babi ngepet (Indonesia) – Monster boar
  4. Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
  5. Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
  6. Bagiennik (Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
  7. Bahamut (Arabian) – Very powerful dragon-like demon
  8. Bai Ze (Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
  9. Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
  10. Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
  11. Bake-kujira (Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
  12. Bakeneko (Japanese) – Magical cat
  13. Bakezōri (Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
  14. Bakhtak (Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
  15. Baku (Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
  16. Bakunawa (Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
  17. Balaur (Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
  18. Baloz (Albanian) – Sea monster
  19. Bannik (Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
  20. Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit
  21. Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
  22. Bardha (Albanian) – Mountain spirit
  23. Bardi (Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
  24. Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
  25. Bar Juchne (Jewish) – Gigantic bird
  26. Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
  27. Barometz (Medieval folklore) – Plant-lamb hybrid
  28. Barong (Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
  29. Basajaun (Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
  30. 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
  31. Bashe (Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
  32. Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
  33. Basilisk (Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
  34. Basty (Turkic) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
  35. Bathala (Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
  36. Batibat (Philippine) – Female night-demon
  37. Batsu (Chinese) – Drought spirit
  38. Baubas (Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
  39. Bauk (Slavic) – Darkness beast
  40. Baykok (Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
  41. Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) – Werewolf
  42. Beast of Gévaudan (France) – French werewolf
  43. Bean Nighe (Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
  44. Behemoth (Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
  45. Bendigeidfran (Welsh) – Giant king
  46. Bennu (Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
  47. Berehynia (Slavic) – Water spirit
  48. Bergrisar (Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
  49. Bergsrå (Norse) – Mountain spirit
  50. Bestial beast (Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
  51. Betobeto-san (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
  52. Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
  53. Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
  54. Bicorn – Human-faced cow that feeds on good men
  55. Bies (Slavic) – Demon
  56. Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
  57. Binbōgami (Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
  58. Biscione (Heraldic) - Large grass snake
  59. Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
  60. Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) – Animated biwa
  61. Black Annis (English) – Blue-faced hag
  62. Black Dog (British) – Canine death spirit
  63. Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
  64. Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
  65. Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
  66. Bloody Bones (Irish) – Water bogeyman
  67. Błudnik (Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
  68. Blue Crow (Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
  69. Bluecap (English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
  70. Bodach (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
  71. Bogeyman (English) – Malevolent spirit
  72. Boggart (English) – Malevolent household spirit
  73. Boginki (Slavic) – Nature spirit
  74. Bogle (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
  75. Boi-tatá (Brazilian) – Giant snake
  76. Bolla (Albanian) – Dragon
  77. Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
  78. Boo Hag (American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
  79. Boobrie (Scottish) – Roaring water bird
  80. Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) – Death spirit
  81. Brag (English) – Malevolent water horse
  82. British big cat (English) – mysterious black panther
  83. Brownie (English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
  84. Broxa (Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
  85. Bucca (Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
  86. Bokkenrijders (Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
  87. Bugbear (English) – Bearlike goblin
  88. Buggane (Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
  89. Bugul Noz (Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
  90. Bukavac (Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
  91. Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
  92. Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
  93. Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
  94. Byangoma (Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
  95. Bysen (Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit