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Saci Pererê
- Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
- Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
- Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
- Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
- Samebito (Japanese) - Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea.
- Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
- Sampati (Hindu) - Brother to the demi-god Jatayu
- Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children
- Sango (South Western Nigeria) – King of Arts of Music, Dance and Entertainment in the Yoruba Culture
- Santelmo (Philippine) - Spirits in a form of fireball, roaming around the forest
- Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
- Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
- Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
- Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
- Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
- Satyr (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid and fertility spirit (human torso with the bottom half of a horse)
- Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
- Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
- Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
- Scorpion Man (Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
- Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
- Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
- Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
- Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
- Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
- Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
- Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
- Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
- Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
- Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
- Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
- Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
- Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
- Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
- Shadow People (American) - Malevolent ghost
- Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
- Shaitan Islam - Similar to Lucifer from the Bible
- Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
- Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
- Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
- Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) - Water spirit
- Shen (Chinese) - Shapeshifing sea monster
- Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
- Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
- Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
- Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
- Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
- Shinigami (Japanese) - "Death god"
- Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
- Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
- Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
- Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
- Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
- Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
- Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
- Shtriga (Albanian) - Evil or dangerous witch
- Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost
- Shug Monkey (English) - Dog/monkey
- Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak'in), an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to resemble a wolf or hyena
- Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
- Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Ruler of the Oni
- Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
- Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
- Sileni (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
- Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
- Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
- Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
- Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
- Siren (Greek) - Human-Fish Hybrid
- Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
- Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
- Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
- Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
- Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
- Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
- Skin-walker (Native American) - Animal-human shapeshifter
- Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
- Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
- Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
- Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
- Sleipnir (Norse) - Eight-legged horse
- Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
- Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
- Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
- Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
- Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
- Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
- Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
- Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
- Spearfinger (Cherokee) - Sharp-fingered hag
- Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
- Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
- Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
- Spirit - Ghosts
- Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
- Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves
- Squonk (American) - Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears
- Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
- Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
- Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
- Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
- Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
- Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
- Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
- Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
- Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
- Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
- Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
- Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
- Suzaku (Japanese) - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird
- Svaðilfari (Norse) - Unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir
- Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirits; the Black Elves
- The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
- Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
- Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
- Sylvan (Medieval folklore) - Forest spirit
- Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) - African giant
- Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) - Reptilian humanoid
