legendary beings list : D

• Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
• Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
• Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
• Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
• Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
• Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
• Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
• Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
• Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
• Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
• Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
• Demigod - Half human, half god.
• Demon - Malevolent spirit
• Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
• Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
• Dilong (Chinese) - Chthonic dragon
• Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
• Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
• Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
• Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
• Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
• Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
• Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
• Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
• Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
• Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
• Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
• Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
• Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
• Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
• Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
• Dragon (Many cultures worldwide)
• Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
• Draugr (Norse) - Undead
• Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
• Drop bear (Australian) - a monstrous koala-like creature in Australian folklore
• Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
• Drude (German) - Possessing demon
• Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
• Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
• Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
• Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
• Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
• Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
• Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
• Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
• Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
• Dybbuk (Jewish) - A spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living.
• Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
• Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag