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• Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
• Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) - Nature and water spirits, serpentine or human-serpent hybrids
• Naga fireballs (Thai) - Spectral fire
• Nagual (Mesoamerica) - Human-animal shapeshifter
• Naiad (Greek) - Freshwater nymph
• Näkki (Finnish) - Water spirit
• Namahage (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
• Namazu (Japanese) - Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
• Nando-baba (Japanese) - Old woman who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
• Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
• Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
• Narasimha (Hindu mythology) - Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion
• Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
• Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
• Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
• Nasnas (Arabian) - Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body
• Nav' (Slavic) - Ghost
• Nawao (Hawaiian) - Savage humanoid
• N-dam-keno-wet (Abenaki) - Fish-human hybrid
• Negret (Catalan) - Little people that turn into coins
• Nekomata (Japanese) - Split-tailed magical cat
• Nekomusume (Japanese) - Cat in the form of a girl
• Nemean Lion (Greek) - Lion with impenetrable skin
• Nephilim (Jewish) - Giant
• Nereid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Nereus
• Ngen (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
• Nguruvilu (Mapuche) - Fox-like water snake
• Nian (Chinese) - Predatory animal
• Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) - Warrior ghosts
• Nikusui (Japanese) - Monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body
• Nimerigar (Shoshone) - Aggressive little people
• Ningyo (Japanese) - Monkey-fish hybrid
• Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) - Large reptile, possibly a dragon
• Nisse (Scandinavian) - House spirit
• Níðhöggr (Norse) - Dragon
• Nivatakavachas (Hindu) - Ocean demon
• Nix (Germanic) - Female water spirit
• Nobusuma (Japanese) - Supernatural wall. Also a monstrous flying squirrel
• Nocnitsa (Slavic) - Nightmare spirit
• Noppera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
• Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
• Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
• Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
• Nu Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
• Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
• Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
• Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
• Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
• Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
• Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
• Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
• Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) - The snake-spirit of the Zambezi River
• Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
• Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
• Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit