List of legendary creatures (C)

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A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland Celtic Fairy Tales-1892-048-1.jpg
A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
  1. Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
  2. Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
  3. Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
  4. Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
  5. Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
  6. Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
  7. Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
  8. Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  9. Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
  10. Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
  11. Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
  12. Camazotz (Mayan) – Underworld bat spirit
  13. Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
  14. Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
  15. Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
  16. Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
  17. Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
  18. Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
  19. Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
  20. Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
  21. Chareng (Meitei) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
  22. Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
  23. Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
  24. Cath Palug (Welsh) – Monstrous cat
  25. Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
  26. Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
  27. Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
  28. Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
  29. Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
  30. Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
  31. Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
  32. Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
  33. Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
  34. Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  35. Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
  36. Cetus (Greek) - Large sea monster
  37. Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
  38. Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
  39. Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
  40. Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
  41. Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
  42. Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
  43. Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
  44. Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
  45. Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
  46. Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
  47. Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
  48. Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
  49. Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
  50. Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
  51. Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
  52. Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
  53. Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
  54. Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
  55. Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
  56. Chōchin'obake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
  57. Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
  58. Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
  59. Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
  60. Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
  61. Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
  62. Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
  63. Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
  64. Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
  65. Chullachaki
  66. Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
  67. Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
  68. Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
  69. Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
  70. Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
  71. Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
  72. Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
  73. Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
  74. Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
  75. Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
  76. Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
  77. Cofgod (English) – Cove god
  78. Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
  79. Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
  80. Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
  81. Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
  82. Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
  83. Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
  84. The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
  85. Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
  86. Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
  87. Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
  88. Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
  89. Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
  90. Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
  91. Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
  92. Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
  93. Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
  94. Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid