List of legendary creatures (K)

Depiction of a "Korrigan", small elf of the Celtic forests

• Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
• Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
• Kahaku (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
• Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
• Kalakeyas (Hindu) - Descendents of Kala
• Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
• Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
• Kamatayan (Philippine) - Philippine counterpart of Death
• Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
• Kamikiri (Japanese) - Hair-cutting spirit
• Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) - Bathroom spirit
• Kanbo (Japanese) - Drought spirit
• Kanedama (Japanese) - Money spirit
• Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
• Kapre (Philippine) - Malevolent tree spirit
• Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz - Troublesome spirit
• Karakura (Turkish) - Male night-demon
• Karasu-tengu (Japanese) - Tengu with a bird's bill
• Karkadann (Persian) - One-horned giant animal
• Karkinos (Greek) - Giant crab
• Karura (Japanese) - Eagle-human hybrid
• Karzełek (Polish) - Little people and mine spirits
• Kasa-obake (Japanese) - Animated parasol
• Kasha (Japanese) - Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
• Kashanbo (Japanese) - Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
• Katawa-guruma (Japanese) - Woman riding on a flaming wheel
• Katsura-otoko (Japanese) - Handsome man from the moon
• Kaukas (Lithuanian) - Nature spirit
• Kawa-uso (Japanese) - Supernatural river otter
• Kawa-zaru (Japanese) - Smelly, cowardly water spirit
• Keelut (Inuit) - Hairless dog
• Kee-wakw (Abenaki) - Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
• Kekkai (Japanese) - Amorphous afterbirth spirit
• Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
• Ker (Greek) - Female death spirit
• Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
• Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
• Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
• Colchis bull (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
• Khyah (Nepalese) - Fat, hairy ape-like creature
• Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
• Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
• Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
• Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
• Killmoulis (English and Scottish) - Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
• Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
• Kin-u (Japanese) - Bird
• Kirin (Japanese) - Japanese Unicorn
• Kishi (Angola) - Malevolent, two-faced seducer
• Kitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit
• Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) - Person possessed by a fox spirit
• Kiyohime (Japanese) - Woman who transformed into a serpent-demon out of the rage of unrequited love
• Klabautermann (German) - Ship spirit
• Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
• Knucker (English) - Water dragon
• Kobalos (Greek) - Goblin like thieves and tricksters
• Kobold (German) - Little people and mine or house spirits
• Kodama (Japanese) - Tree spirit
• Kofewalt (Germanic) - House spirit
• Ko-gok (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
• Kokakuchō (Japanese) - Ubume bird
• Komainu (Japanese) - Protective animal
• Konaki-Jijii (Japanese) - Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
• Kongamoto (Congo) - Flying creature
• Konoha-tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
• Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) - Little people
• Korrigan (Breton) - Little people and nature spirits
• Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
• Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
• Krasue (Southeast Asian) - Vampiric, floating head
• Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
• Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
• Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
• Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) - Miniature fox spirit
• Kudan (Japanese) - Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity and then dies
• Kui (Chinese) - One-legged monster
• Kulshedra (Albanian) - Drought-causing dragon
• Kumakatok (Philippine) - Death spirits
• Kumiho (Korean) - Fox spirit
• Kun (Chinese) - Giant fish
• Kupua (Hawaiian) - Shapeshifting tricksters
• Kurabokko (Japanese) - Guardian spirit of a warehouse
• Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) - Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
• Kurma (Hindu mythology) - Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
• Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
• Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
• Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
• Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
• Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
• Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire