List of legendary creatures (C)

A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

• Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirit
• Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
• Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white; malevolent and black
• Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
• Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
• Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
• Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
• Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
• Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
• Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
• Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus; general term for any kind of human/demon hybrid
• Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
• Camulatz (Mayan) - Bird that ate the heads of the first men
• Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
• Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
• Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
• Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
• Čhápa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
• Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
• Carbuncle (Latin America) - Small creature with a jewel on its head
• Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
• Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
• Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
• Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
• Centicore (Indian) - Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
• Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
• Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
• Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
• Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
• Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
• Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
• Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
• Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
• Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
• Changeling (European) - Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
• Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
• Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
• Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
• Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
• Chichevache - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
• Chickcharney (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid
• Chimbwe (hyena) in Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania) mythology
• Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
• Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
• Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
• Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
• Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
• Chol (Biblical mythology) - Regenerative bird
• Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
• Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
• Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
• Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savage with dog teeth
• Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
• Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram
• Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
• Chupacabra (Latin America) - Cryptid beast, named for its habit of sucking the blood of goats and other livestock
• Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
• Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
• Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghost of women that died in childbirth
• Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
• Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
• Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
• Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
• Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
• Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
• Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
• Cofgod (English) - Cove god
• Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
• Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
• Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
• Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
• Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
• Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
• The Cu Bird (Mexican) - El Pájaro Cu; a bird.
• Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
• Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
• Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
• Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
• Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
• Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
• Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dog
• Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giant
• Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
• Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid