List of legendary creatures (B)

Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature

1. Ba (Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
2. Baba Yaga (Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
3. Babi ngepet (Indonesia) – Monster boar
4. Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
5. Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
6. Bagiennik (Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
7. Bahamut (Arabian) – Giant fish
8. Bai Ze (Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
9. Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
10. Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
11. Bake-kujira (Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
12. Bakeneko (Japanese) – Magical cat
13. Bakezōri (Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
14. Bakhtak (Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
15. Baku (Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
16. Bakunawa (Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
17. Balaur (Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
18. Baloz (Albanian) – Sea monster
19. Bannik (Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
20. Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit
21. Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
22. Bardha (Albanian) – Mountain spirit
23. Bardi (Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
24. Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
25. Bar Juchne (Jewish) – Gigantic bird
26. Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
27. Barong (Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
28. Basajaun (Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
29. Baš Čelik (Serbian) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
30. Bashe (Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
31. Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
32. Basilisk (Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
33. Basty (Turkic) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
34. Bathala (Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
35. Batibat (Philippine) – Female night-demon
36. Batsu (Chinese) – Drought spirit
37. Baubas (Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
38. Bauk (Slavic) – Darkness beast
39. Baykok (Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
40. Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) – Werewolf
41. Beast of Gévaudan (France) – French werewolf
42. Bean Nighe (Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
43. Behemoth (Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
44. Bendigeidfran (Welsh) – Giant king
45. Bennu (Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
46. Berehynia (Slavic) – Water spirit
47. Bergrisar (Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
48. Bergsrå (Norse) – Mountain spirit
49. Bestial beast (Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
50. Betobeto-san (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
51. Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
52. Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
53. Bies (Slavic) – Demon
54. Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
55. Binbōgami (Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
56. Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
57. Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) – Animated biwa
58. Black Annis (English) – Blue-faced hag
59. Black Dog (British) – Canine death spirit
60. Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
61. Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
62. Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
63. Bloody Bones (Irish) – Water bogeyman
64. Błudnik (Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
65. Blue Crow (Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
66. Bluecap (English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
67. Bodach (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
68. Bogeyman (English) – Malevolent spirit
69. Boggart (English) – Malevolent household spirit
70. Boginki (Slavic) – Nature spirit
71. Bogle (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
72. Boi-tatá (Brazilian) – Giant snake
73. Bolla (Albanian) – Dragon
74. Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
75. Boo Hag (American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
76. Boobrie (Scottish) – Roaring water bird
77. Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) – Death spirit
78. Brag (English) – Malevolent water horse
79. British big cat (English) – mysterious black panther
80. Brownie (English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
81. Broxa (Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
82. Bucca (Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
83. Bokkenrijders (Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
84. Bugbear (English) – Bearlike goblin
85. Buggane (Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
86. Bugul Noz (Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
87. Bukavac (Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
88. Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
89. Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
90. Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
91. Byangoma (Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
92. Bysen (Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit