# List of legendary creatures (C)
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* Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
* Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
* Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
* Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
* Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
* Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
* Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
* Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
* Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
* Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
* Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
* Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
* Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
* Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
* Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
* Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
* Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
* Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
* Chareng (Meitei mythology) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
* Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
* Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
* Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
* Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
* Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
* Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
* Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
* Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
* Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
* Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
* Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
* Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
* Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
* Cetus
* Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
* Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
* Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
* Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
* Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
* Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
* Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
* Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
* Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
* Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
* Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
* Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
* Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
* Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
* Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
* Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
* Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
* Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
* Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
* Chōchin'obake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
* Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
* Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
* Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
* Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
* Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
* Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
* Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
* Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
* Chullachaki
* Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
* Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
* Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
* Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
* Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
* Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
* Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
* Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
* Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
* Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
* Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
* Cofgod (English) – Cove god
* Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
* Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
* Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
* Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
* Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
* Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
* The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
* Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
* Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
* Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
* Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
* Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
* Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
* Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
* Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
* Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
* Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid

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