List of legendary creatures (K)

Depiction of a "Korrigan", small elf of the Celtic forests

1. Kabouter (Dutch) – Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
2. Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) – Nature spirit
3. Kahaku (Japanese) – Little people and water spirits
4. Kajsa (Scandinavian) – Wind spirit
5. Kalakeyas (Hindu) – Descendants of Kala
6. Kallikantzaroi (Greek) – Grotesque, malevolent spirit
7. Kamaitachi (Japanese) – Wind spirit
8. Kamatayan (Philippine) – Philippine counterpart of Death
9. Kami (Japanese) – Nature spirit
10. Kamikiri (Japanese) – Hair-cutting spirit
11. Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) – Bathroom spirit
12. Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
13. Kanbo (Japanese) – Drought spirit
14. Kanedama (Japanese) – Money spirit
15. Kappa (Japanese) – Little people and water spirit
16. Kapre (Philippine) – Malevolent tree spirit
17. Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
18. Karakura (Turkish) – Male night-demon
19. Karasu-tengu (Japanese) – Tengu with a bird's bill
20. Karkadann (Persian) – One-horned giant animal
21. Karkinos (Greek) – Giant crab
22. Karura (Japanese) – Eagle-human hybrid
23. Karzełek (Polish) – Little people and mine spirits
24. Kasa-obake (Japanese) – Animated parasol
25. Kasha (Japanese) – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
26. Kashanbo (Japanese) – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
27. Katawa-guruma (Japanese) – Woman riding on a flaming wheel
28. Katsura-otoko (Japanese) – Handsome man from the Moon
29. Katallan (Albanian) – Man-eating giant
30. Kaukas (Lithuanian) – Nature spirit
31. Kawa-uso (Japanese) – Supernatural river otter
32. Kawa-zaru (Japanese) – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
33. Kayeri (Cuiva) - Mushroom-like monster
34. Ke'lets (Chukchi mythology) – Ogre or evil spirit
35. Keelut (Inuit) – Hairless dog
36. Kee-wakw (Abenaki) – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
37. Kekkai (Japanese) – Amorphous afterbirth spirit
38. Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) – Malevolent water horse
39. Ker (Greek) – Female death spirit
40. Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) – Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
41. Keukegen (Japanese) – Disease spirit
42. Keythong (Heraldic) – Wingless griffin
43. Khalkotauroi (Greek) – Bronze-hoofed bulls
44. Khyah (Nepalese) – Fat, hairy ape-like creature
45. Kigatilik (Inuit) – Night-demon
46. Kholomodumo (Sotho) – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
47. Kijimunaa (Japanese) – Tree sprite from Okinawa
48. Kijo (Japanese) – She-devil
49. Kikimora (Slavic) – Female house spirit
50. Killmoulis (English and Scottish) – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
51. Kinnara (Hindu) – Human-bird hybrid
52. Kin-u (Japanese) – Bird
53. Kirin (Japanese) – Japanese Unicorn
54. Kishi (Angola) – Malevolent, two-faced seducer
55. Kitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit
56. Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) – Person possessed by a fox spirit
57. Kiyohime (Japanese) – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love
58. Klabautermann (German) – Ship spirit
59. Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
60. Knucker (English) – Water dragon
61. Kobalos (Greek) – Goblin like thieves and tricksters
62. Kobold (German) – Little people and mine or house spirits
63. Kodama (Japanese) – Tree spirit
64. Kofewalt (Germanic) – House spirit
65. Ko-gok (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
66. Kokakuchō (Japanese) – Ubume bird
67. Komainu (Japanese) – Protective animal
68. Konaki-jiji (Japanese) – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
69. Konoha-tengu (Japanese) – Bird-like creature
70. Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) – Little people
71. Korrigan (Breton) – Little people and nature spirits
72. Kraken (Scandinavian) – Sea monster
73. Krasnoludek (Slavic) – Little people nature spirits
74. Krasue (Southeast Asian) – Vampiric, floating head
75. Krampus (Germany) – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
76. Kting Voar (Southeast Asian) – Snake eating cattle
77. Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) – Forest spirit
78. Kubikajiri (Japanese) – Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
79. Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) – Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
80. Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) – Miniature fox spirit
81. Kudan (Japanese) – Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity before dying
82. Kui (Chinese) – One-legged monster
83. Kukudhi (Albanian) – Female demon who spreads sickness
84. Kukwes (Mi'kmaq) – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
85. Kulshedra (Albanian) – Drought-causing dragon
86. Kumakatok (Philippine) – Death spirits
87. Kumiho (Korean) – Fox spirit
88. Kun (Chinese) – Giant fish
89. Kupua (Hawaiian) – Shapeshifting tricksters
90. Kurabokko (Japanese) – Guardian spirit of a warehouse
91. Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) – Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
92. Kurma (Hindu mythology) – Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
93. Kurupi (Guaraní) – Wild man and fertility spirit
94. Kushtaka (Tlingit) – Shapeshifting "land otter man"
95. Kye-ryong (Korean) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
96. Kyourinrin (Japanese) – Animated scroll or paper
97. Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) – Nine-tailed fox
98. Kyūketsuki (Japanese) – Vampire king