legendary beings list : Z

• Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
• Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
• Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
• Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
• Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
• Zburator (Romanian) - Wolf-headed dragon
• Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
• Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
• Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
• Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
• Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
• Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
• Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
• Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
• Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
• Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
• Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
• Zmiy - Slavic dragon
• Zombie (Vodou) - Re-animated corpse
• Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
• Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost

legendary beings list : Y

• Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
• Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
• Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
• Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
• Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
• Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
• Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
• Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
• Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
• Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
• Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
• Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
• Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
• Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
• Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
• Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
• Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
• Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
• Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
• Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
• Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
• Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
• Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
• Yeti (Tibet) - Abominable Snowman
• Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
• Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
• Yōkai (Japanese) - Supernatural Monster
• Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
• Yong - Korean dragon
• Yōsei (Japanese) - Fairy
• Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
• You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) - Wandering ghost
• Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
• Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
• Yuan Gui (Chinese) - Distressed ghost
• Yukinko (Japanese) - Childlike snow spirit
• Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
• Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
• Yuxa (Tatar) - 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human

legendary beings list : X

• Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
• Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
• Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
• Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit

legendary beings list : W

• Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
• Wampus cat (Cherokee) - Human-cougar hybrid
• Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
• Wani (Japanese)- A crocodilian water monster
• Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg-laying bird
• Warg (English and Scandinavian O.N. vargr) - Giant, demonic wolf
• Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
• Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
• Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
• Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
• Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
• Weisse Frauen (German) - Female spirit
• Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
• Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
• Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
• Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
• Werehyena (Africa) - Hyena-human shapeshifter
• Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
• White Lady (Worldwide) - Ghost of a murdered or mistreated woman
• Wild man (European) – Hairy, bipedal man-like creature
• Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
• Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
• Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
• Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
• Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
• Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
• Wu Tou Gui (Chinese) - Beheaded ghost
• Wyrm - English dragon
• Wyvern (Germanic Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings

legendary beings list : V

• Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
• Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
• Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
• Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
• Vampire (Slavic) - Reanimated corpse that subsists on blood
• Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
• Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
• Varaha (Hindu mythology) - third Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a boar
• Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
• Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
• Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human
• Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
• Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
• Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
• Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
• Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
• Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic, werewolf-like monster
• Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
• Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
• Víðópnir, (Norse) - Rooster that sits atop the tree
• Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
• Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid