legendary beings list : H

• Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
• Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
• Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
• Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
• Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
• Hakutaku (Japanese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
• Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
• Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
• Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
• Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
• Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
• Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
• Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
• Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
• Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
• Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
• Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
• Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
• Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
• Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
• Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
• Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
• Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
• Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
• Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
• Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
• Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
• Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
• Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
• Hidebehind (American)
• Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
• Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
• Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
• Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
• Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
• Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
• Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
• Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) - Deer-goat hybrid
• Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
• Hitotsume-kozō (Japanese) - One-eyed child-like spirit
• Hob (English) - House spirit
• Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
• Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
• Hodag (Native American) - part frog, part mammoth, part lizard, from Native American mythology
• Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
• Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
• Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
• Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
• Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
• Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
• Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
• Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
• Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
• Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
• Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
• Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
• Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
• Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
• Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
• Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
• Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
• Hupia (Taíno) - Nocturnal ghost
• Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
• Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
• Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
• Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
• Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
• Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep