Magical creature

Magical creature, magical beast, or magical animal may refer to:

Religion, mythology, and folklore

• Legendary creature, a mythological or folkloric creature
  • Anthropomorphic animal, a non-human animal attributed to human traits, emotions and intentions
  • Cryptid, a creature whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely
  • Monster, a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order
  • Mythological hybrid, a creature composed of parts from different animals
    • Human–animal hybrid, an entity that incorporates elements from both humans and animals
  • Talking animal, a non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language
  • Therianthrope, a human being who metamorphoses into another animal by means of shapeshifting
• Animals in religion
  • Animal deity, a deity represented in the form of an animal
  • Animal spirit, the spirit of an animal
  • Familiar spirit, a supernatural entity believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic
  • Power animal, a broadly animistic and shamanic concept
  • Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
  • Vahana, a being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle
  • Zoomorph, a being represented in the form of an animal

Fiction

• A Book of Magical Beasts, a 1970 book by Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Book of Imaginary Beings, a 1957 book by Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero
• Magical creatures in Harry Potter
• Talking animals in fiction

See also

• Fantastic Beasts (disambiguation)