List of legendary creatures (T)  
             
             
            
              
              
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Tachash  (Jewish ) – Large land animal 
Tailypo  (American Folklore ) (Appalachia ) – Powerful animal, that takes revenge on those who steal its tail 
Taimatsumaru  (Japanese ) – Tengu  surrounded in demonic fire 
Takam  (Persian ) – Nature spirit 
Taka-onna  (Japanese ) – Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building 
Talos  (Greek ) – Giant made of bronze 
Tangie  (Scottish ) – Shapeshifting water spirit 
Taniwha  (Māori ) – Water spirit 
Tantankororin  (Japanese ) – Unharvested persimmon  which becomes a monster 
Tanuki  (Japanese ) – Shapeshifting raccoon dog 
Taotao Mona  (Mariana Islands ) – Ancestral spirits 
Taotie  (Chinese ) – Greed spirit 
Tapairu  (Mangaia ) – Nature spirit 
Tapio  (Finnish ) – Forest deity 
Tarantasio (Italian ) – Dragon 
Tarasque  (French ) – Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes 
Tartalo  (Basque ) – One-eyed giant 
Tartaruchi  (Christian ) – Demonic punisher 
Tatami-tataki  (Japanese ) – Poltergeist that hits the tatami  mats at night 
Tatzelwurm  – (Alpine Folklore ) lizard-like creature, often described as having the face of a cat, with a serpent-like body which may be slender or stubby, with four short legs or two forelegs 
Tatsu  – Japanese  dragon 
Taurokampoi  (Etruscan ) – Fish-tailed bull 
Tavara (Trabzon ) – Night-demon 
Teju Jagua  (Guaraní ) – Lizard with seven dog heads 
Tecumbalam  (Mayan ) – Bird 
Tek-ko-kui  (Taiwanese ) – Bamboo ghost 
Tengu  (Japanese ) – Anthropomorphic bird 
Tennin  (Japanese ) – Angelic humanoid 
Te-no-me  (Japanese ) – Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands 
Tepegoz  (Azerbaijani ) – Azerbaijani mythical creature similar to the cyclops Polyphemus 
Terrible Monster  (Jewish ) – Lion-eagle-scorpion hybrid made from the blood of murder victims 
Teumessian Fox  (Greek ) – Gigantic fox 
Theriocephalus  (Medieval folklore ) – Animal-headed humanoid 
Three hares  (Many cultures worldwide) – Symbolic animal 
Three-legged bird  (Asia  and Africa ) – Solar bird 
Thunderbird  (Native American ) – Avian lightning bird spirit 
Thor  (Norse mythology ) – God of thunder and storm 
Tiangou  (Chinese ) – Meteoric dog 
Tianlong  (Chinese ) – Celestial dragon 
Tibicena  (Canarian ) – Evil dog 
Tiddy Mun  (English ) – Bog spirit 
Tigmamanukan  (Philippine ) – Asian fairy bluebird 
Tigre Capiangos (Argentine ) – Jaguar-human shapeshifter 
Tigris (Jewish)  – Giant lion 
Tikbalang  (Philippine ) – Anthropomorphic horse 
Tikoloshe  (Zulu ) – Little people  and water spirit 
Timingila  (Hindu ) – Sea monster 
Tipua  (Māori ) – Spirit that protects a specific place 
Titan  (Greek ) – Primeval god 
Tiyanak  (Philippine ) – Demons that are souls of dead unbaptized babies 
Tizheruk  (Inuit ) – Sea serpent 
Tlahuelpuchi  (Tlaxcalan ) – Shapeshifting vampire 
Tōfu-kozō  (Japanese ) – Spirit child carrying a block of tofu  
Toire-no-Hanakosan  (Japanese ) – Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls 
Tomte  (Scandinavian ) – House spirit 
Topielec  (Slavic ) – Water spirit 
Tōtetsu  (Japanese ) – Greed spirit 
Tooth fairy  
Toyol  (Malay ) – Servant spirit 
Trasgo  (Spanish and Portuguese ) – Grotesque, mischievous little people 
Trauco  (Chilota ) – Fertility spirit 
Trenti  (Cantabrian ) – Diminutive demon 
Trickster  – Character in a story which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour 
Tripurasura  (Hindu ) – Demonic inhabitants of Tripura  
Tritons  (Greek ) – Male human-fish hybrid 
Troll  (Norse ) – Nature spirit 
Trow  (Orkney  and Shetland ) – Little people  and nature spirits 
Tsi-noo  (Abenaki ) – Vampiric demon 
Tsuchigumo  (Japanese ) – Shapeshifting, giant spider 
Tsuchinoko  (Japanese ) – Plump snake-like creature 
Tsukumogami  (Japanese ) – Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years 
Tsul 'Kalu  (Cherokee ) – Giant nature spirit 
Tsurara-onna  (Japanese ) – Icicle woman 
Tsurube-otoshi  (Japanese ) – Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people 
Tugarin Zmeyevich  (Slavic ) – Evil shapeshifter 
Tylwyth Teg  (Welsh ) – Nature spirit 
Tulpa  
Tunda  
Tupilaq  (Inuit ) – Animated construct 
Turehu  (Māori ) – Pale spirit 
Türst  (Swiss ) – legendary figure who turns people into dogs 
Turul  (Hungarian ) – Giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars 
Tyger  (Heraldry ) – Like a real tiger, but lacks stripes; has the tufted tail of a lion and a thick mane along the neck like a horse 
Typhon  (Greek ) – Winged, snake-legged giant 
Tzitzimitl  (Aztec ) – Skeletal star spirit