List of legendary creatures (C)

  1. Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
  2. Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
  3. Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
  4. Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
  5. Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
  6. Cambion
  7. Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
  8. Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
  9. Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  10. Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
  11. Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
  12. Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
  13. Camazotz (Mayan) – Underworld bat spirit
  14. Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
  15. Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
  16. Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
  17. Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
  18. Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
  19. Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
  20. Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
  21. Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
  22. Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
  23. Cath Palug (Welsh) – Monstrous cat
  24. Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
  25. Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
  26. Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
  27. Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
  28. Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
  29. Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
  30. Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
  31. Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
  32. Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
  33. Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
  34. Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
  35. Cetus (Greek) - Large sea monster
  36. Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
  37. Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
  38. Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
  39. Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
  40. Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
  41. Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
  42. Chareng (Meitei) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
  43. Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
  44. Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
  45. Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
  46. Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
  47. Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
  48. Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
  49. Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
  50. Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
  51. Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
  52. Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
  53. Chimimōryō (Chinese/Japanese) – Spirits of mountains and rivers
  54. Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
  55. Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
  56. Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
  57. Chōchin'obake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
  58. Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
  59. Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
  60. Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
  61. Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
  62. Chort (Slavic) – Malign spirit or demon
  63. Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
  64. Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
  65. Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
  66. Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
  67. Chullachaki
  68. Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
  69. Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
  70. Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
  71. Chut (Belarusian) – Household spirit
  72. Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
  73. Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
  74. Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
  75. Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
  76. Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
  77. Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
  78. Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
  79. Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
  80. Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
  81. Cofgod (English) – Cove god
  82. Coinchenn (Irish) – Sea monster
  83. Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
  84. Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
  85. Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
  86. Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
  87. Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
  88. Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
  89. The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
  90. Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
  91. Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
  92. Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
  93. Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
  94. Curruid (Irish) – Sea monster
  95. Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
  96. Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
  97. Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
  98. Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
  99. Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
  100. Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid
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