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) – Descendants 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
• Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
• Kanbo (Japanese) – Drought spirit
• Kanedama (Japanese) – Money spirit
• Kappa (Japanese) – Little people and water spirit
• 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
• Katallan (Albanian) – Man-eating giant
• Kaukas (Lithuanian) – Nature spirit
• Kawa-uso (Japanese) – Supernatural river otter
• Kawa-zaru (Japanese) – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
• Kayeri (Cuiva) - Mushroom-like monster
• Ke'lets (Chukchi mythology) – Ogre or evil 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
• Kholomodumo (Sotho) – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
• 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 serpentine 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-jiji (Japanese) – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
• Konoha-tengu (Japanese) – Bird-like creature
• 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
• Krampus (Germany) – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
• 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 before dying
• Kui (Chinese) – One-legged monster
• Kukudhi (Albanian) – Female demon who spreads sickness
• Kukwes (Mi'kmaq) – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
• 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 "land otter man"
• Kye-ryong (Korean) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
• Kyourinrin (Japanese) – Animated scroll or paper
• Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) – Nine-tailed fox
• Kyūketsuki (Japanese) – Vampire king