List of legendary creatures (D)

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  1. Dactyl (Greek) – Little people and smith and healing spirits
  2. Daemon (Greek) – Incorporeal spirit
  3. Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) – Similar to a deer or ibex; legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side
  4. Daidarabotchi (Japanese) – Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
  5. Daitengu (Japanese) – Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
  6. Daitya (Hindu) – Giant
  7. Dandan (Arabian) – Sea creature
  8. Danava (Hindu) – Water demon
  9. Daphnaie (Greek) – Laurel tree nymph
  10. Datsue-ba (Japanese) – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
  11. Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
  12. Ded Moroz (Russia) – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
  13. Deer Woman (Native American) – Human-deer hybrid
  14. Deity (Worldwide) – Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
  15. Demigod (Worldwide) – Half human, half god
  16. Demons (Worldwide especially in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mythology) - Evil spirits that torment mortals
  17. Dhampir (Balkans) – Human/vampire hybrid
  18. Diao Si Gui (Chinese) – Hanged ghost
  19. Dilong (Chinese) – Earth dragon
  20. Dip (Catalan) – Demonic and vampiric dog
  21. Di Penates (Roman) – House spirit
  22. Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) – Extremely venomous snake
  23. Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) – Goanna spirit
  24. Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) – Little people and nature spirits
  25. Diwata (Philippine) – Tree spirit
  26. Djall (Albanian) – Devil
  27. Dobhar-chu (Irish) – King otter
  28. Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) – Little people
  29. Dokkaebi (Korean) – Grotesque, horned humanoids
  30. Dökkálfar (Norse) – Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
  31. Dola (Slavic) – Tutelary and fate spirit
  32. Domovoi (Slavic) – House spirit
  33. Doppelgänger (German) – Ghostly double
  34. Drac (Catalan) – Lion or bull-faced dragon
  35. Drac (French) – Winged sea serpent
  36. Drakon (Greek) – Greek dragons
  37. Drakaina (Greek) – Dragons depicted with female characteristics
  38. Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) – Fire-breathing and (normally) winged reptiles
  39. Dragon turtle (Chinese) – Giant turtle with dragon-like head
  40. Drangue (Albanian) – Semi-human winged warriors
  41. Draugr (Norse) – Undead
  42. Drekavac (Slavic) – Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
  43. Drop Bear (Australian) – Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
  44. Drow (Scottish) – Cavern spirit
  45. Drude (German) – Possessing demon
  46. Druk (Bhutanese) – Dragon
  47. Dryad (Greek) – Tree nymph
  48. Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) – Little people and forest spirits
  49. Duergar (English) – Malevolent little people
  50. Dullahan (Irish) – Headless death spirit
  51. Duwende (Philippine) – Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
  52. Dvergr (Norse) – Subterranean little people smiths
  53. Dvorovoi (Slavic) – Courtyard spirit
  54. Dwarf (Germanic) – Little people nature spirits
  55. Dybbuk (Jewish) – Spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
  56. Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
  57. Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) – Child-eating hag
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