List of legendary creatures (Y)

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  1. Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster
  2. Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet
  3. Yadōkai (Japanese) – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
  4. Yagyō-san (Japanese) – Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
  5. Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Male nature spirit
  6. Yakshi (Keralite) – Vampire
  7. Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Female nature spirit
  8. Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) – Disease and misfortune spirit
  9. Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) – Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
  10. Yali (Hinduism) – Lion like creature often symbolic for protecting temples
  11. Yallery-Brown (English) – Nature spirit
  12. Yama (China, Korea, Japan, Buddhism, including Tibet) – Wrathful god
  13. Yama-biko (Japanese) – Echo spirit
  14. Yama-bito (Japanese) – Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
  15. Yama-chichi (Japanese) – Monkey-like mountain spirit
  16. Yama-inu (Japanese) – Dog-like mountain spirit
  17. Yama-otoko (Japanese) – Mountain giant
  18. Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) – Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
  19. Yama-uba (Japanese) – Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
  20. Yama-waro (Japanese) – Hairy, one-eyed spirit
  21. Yanari (Japanese) – Spirit which causes strange noises
  22. Yaoguai (Chinese) – Animalistic demon or fallen gods
  23. Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) – Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
  24. Yatagarasu (Japanese) – Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
  25. Yato-no-kami (Japanese) – Serpent spirits
  26. Yeth hound (English) – Headless dog
  27. Yeti (Himalayan) – Mountain bigfoot
  28. Yilbegän (Turkic) – Either a dragon or a giant
  29. Yobuko (Japanese) – Mountain dwelling spirit
  30. Yōkai (Japanese) – Supernatural monster
  31. Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) – Underworld hag
  32. Yong – Korean dragon
  33. Yōsei (Japanese) – Fairy
  34. Yosuzume (Japanese) – Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
  35. You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) – Wandering ghost
  36. Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) – Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
  37. Ypotryll (Heraldic) – Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
  38. Yuan Gui (Chinese) – Distressed ghost
  39. Yukinko (Japanese) – Childlike snow spirit
  40. Yuki-onna (Japanese) – Female snow spirit
  41. Yūrei (Japanese) – Ghost
  42. Yuxa (Tatar) – 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human

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