# List of legendary creatures (D)
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* Dactyl (Greek) – Little people and smith and healing spirits
* Daemon (Greek) – Incorporeal spirit
* 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
* Daidarabotchi (Japanese) – Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
* Daitengu (Japanese) – Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
* Daitya (Hindu) – Giant
* Dandan (Arabian) – Sea creature
* Danava (Hindu) – Water demon
* Daphnaie (Greek) – Laurel tree nymph
* Datsue-ba (Japanese) – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
* Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
* Ded Moroz (Russia) – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
* Deer Woman (Native American) – Human-deer hybrid
* Deity (Worldwide) – Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
* Demigod (Worldwide) – Half human, half god
* Demons (Worldwide especially in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mythology) - Evil spirits that torment mortals
* Dhampir (Balkans) – Human/vampire hybrid
* Diao Si Gui (Chinese) – Hanged ghost
* Dilong (Chinese) – Earth dragon
* Dip (Catalan) – Demonic and vampiric dog
* Di Penates (Roman) – House spirit
* Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) – Extremely venomous snake
* Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) – Goanna spirit
* Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) – Little people and nature spirits
* Diwata (Philippine) – Tree spirit
* Djall (Albanian) – Devil
* Dobhar-chu (Irish) – King otter
* Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) – Little people
* Dokkaebi (Korean) – Grotesque, horned humanoids
* Dökkálfar (Norse) – Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
* Dola (Slavic) – Tutelary and fate spirit
* Domovoi (Slavic) – House spirit
* Doppelgänger (German) – Ghostly double
* Drac (Catalan) – Lion or bull-faced dragon
* Drac (French) – Winged sea serpent
* Drakon (Greek) – Greek dragons
* Drakaina (Greek) – Dragons depicted with female characteristics
* Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) – Fire-breathing and (normally) winged reptiles
* Dragon turtle (Chinese) – Giant turtle with dragon-like head
* Drangue (Albanian) – Semi-human winged warriors
* Draugr (Norse) – Undead
* Drekavac (Slavic) – Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
* Drop Bear (Australian) – Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
* Drow (Scottish) – Cavern spirit
* Drude (German) – Possessing demon
* Druk (Bhutanese) – Dragon
* Dryad (Greek) – Tree nymph
* Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) – Little people and forest spirits
* Duergar (English) – Malevolent little people
* Dullahan (Irish) – Headless death spirit
* Duwende (Philippine) – Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
* Dvergr (Norse) – Subterranean little people smiths
* Dvorovoi (Slavic) – Courtyard spirit
* Dwarf (Germanic) – Little people nature spirits
* Dybbuk (Jewish) – Spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
* Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
* Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) – Child-eating hag

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