List of legendary creatures (K)

  1. Kabouter (Dutch) – Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
  2. Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) – Nature spirit
  3. Kahaku (Japanese) – Little people and water spirits
  4. Kajsa (Scandinavian) – Wind spirit
  5. Kalakeyas (Hindu) – Descendants of Kala
  6. Kallikantzaroi (Greek) – Grotesque, malevolent spirit
  7. Kamaitachi (Japanese) – Wind spirit
  8. Kamatayan (Philippine) – Philippine counterpart of Death
  9. Kami (Japanese) – Nature spirit
  10. Kamikiri (Japanese) – Hair-cutting spirit
  11. Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) – Bathroom spirit
  12. Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
  13. Kanbo (Japanese) – Drought spirit
  14. Kanedama (Japanese) – Money spirit
  15. Kappa (Japanese) – Little people and water spirit
  16. Kapre (Philippine) – Malevolent tree spirit
  17. Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
  18. Karakura (Turkish) – Male night-demon
  19. Karasu-tengu (Japanese) – Tengu with a bird's bill
  20. Karkadann (Persian) – One-horned giant animal
  21. Karkinos (Greek) – Giant crab
  22. Karura (Japanese) – Eagle-human hybrid
  23. Karzełek (Polish) – Little people and mine spirits
  24. Kasa-obake (Japanese) – Animated parasol
  25. Kasha (Japanese) – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
  26. Kashanbo (Japanese) – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
  27. Katawa-guruma (Japanese) – Woman riding on a flaming wheel
  28. Katsura-otoko (Japanese) – Handsome man from the Moon
  29. Katallan (Albanian) – Man-eating giant
  30. Kaukas (Lithuanian) – Nature spirit
  31. Kawa-uso (Japanese) – Supernatural river otter
  32. Kawa-zaru (Japanese) – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
  33. Kayeri (Cuiva) - Mushroom-like monster
  34. Ke'lets (Chukchi) – Ogre or evil spirit
  35. Keelut (Inuit) – Hairless dog
  36. Kee-wakw (Abenaki) – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
  37. Keibu Keioiba (Meitei) – Man with the body of a human but the head of a tiger
  38. Kekkai (Japanese) – Amorphous afterbirth spirit
  39. Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) – Malevolent water horse
  40. Ker (Greek) – Female death spirit
  41. Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) – Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
  42. Keukegen (Japanese) – Disease spirit
  43. Keythong (Heraldic) – Wingless griffin
  44. Khalkotauroi (Greek) – Bronze-hoofed bulls
  45. Khyah (Nepalese) – Fat, hairy ape-like creature
  46. Kigatilik (Inuit) – Night-demon
  47. Kholomodumo (Sotho) – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
  48. Kijimunaa (Japanese) – Tree sprite from Okinawa
  49. Kijo (Japanese) – She-devil
  50. Kikimora (Slavic) – Female house spirit
  51. Killmoulis (English and Scottish) – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
  52. Kinnara (Hindu) – Human-bird hybrid
  53. Kin-u (Japanese) – Bird
  54. Kirin (Japanese) – Japanese Unicorn
  55. Kishi (Angola) – Malevolent, two-faced seducer
  56. Kitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit
  57. Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) – Person possessed by a fox spirit
  58. Kiyohime (Japanese) – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love
  59. Klabautermann (German) – Ship spirit
  60. Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
  61. Knucker (English) – Water dragon
  62. Kobalos (Greek) – Goblin like thieves and tricksters
  63. Kobold (German) – Little people and mine or house spirits
  64. Kodama (Japanese) – Tree spirit
  65. Kofewalt (Germanic) – House spirit
  66. Ko-gok (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
  67. Kokakuchō (Japanese) – Ubume bird
  68. Komainu (Japanese) – Protective animal
  69. Konaki-jiji (Japanese) – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
  70. Konoha-tengu (Japanese) – Bird-like creature
  71. Konrul (Turkic) – Bird that is reborn
  72. Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) – Little people
  73. Korrigan (Breton) – Little people and nature spirits
  74. Koshchei (Russian) – Villainous figure that is unkillable, usually by hiding "his death" inside objects to protect it
  75. Koto-furunushi (Japanese) – Animated koto
  76. Kraken (Scandinavian) – Sea monster
  77. Krasnoludek (Slavic) – Little people nature spirits
  78. Krasue (Southeast Asian) – Vampiric, floating head
  79. Krampus (Germany) – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
  80. Kting Voar (Southeast Asian) – Snake eating cattle
  81. Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) – Forest spirit
  82. Kubikajiri (Japanese) – Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
  83. Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) – Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
  84. Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) – Miniature fox spirit
  85. Kudan (Japanese) – Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity before dying
  86. Kui (Chinese) – One-legged monster
  87. Kujata (Arabian) – Cosmic bull
  88. Kukudhi (Albanian) – Female demon who spreads sickness
  89. Kukwes (Mi'kmaq) – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
  90. Kulshedra (Albanian) – Drought-causing dragon
  91. Kumakatok (Philippine) – Death spirits
  92. Kumiho (Korean) – Fox spirit
  93. Kun (Chinese) – Giant fish
  94. Kupua (Hawaiian) – Shapeshifting tricksters
  95. Kurabokko (Japanese) – Guardian spirit of a warehouse
  96. Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) – Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
  97. Kurma (Hindu mythology) – Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
  98. Kurupi (Guaraní) – Wild man and fertility spirit
  99. Kushtaka (Tlingit) – Shapeshifting "land otter man"
  100. Kye-ryong (Korean) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
  101. Kyourinrin (Japanese) – Animated scroll or paper
  102. Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) – Nine-tailed fox
  103. Kyūketsuki (Japanese) – Vampire king
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