# List of legendary creatures (B)
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* Ba (Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
* Baba Yaga (Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
* Babi ngepet (Indonesia) – Monster boar
* Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
* Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
* Bagiennik (Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
* Bahamut (Arabian) – Giant fish
* Bai Ze (Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
* Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
* Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
* Bake-kujira (Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
* Bakeneko (Japanese) – Magical cat
* Bakezōri (Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
* Bakhtak (Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
* Baku (Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
* Bakunawa (Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
* Balaur (Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
* Baloz (Albanian) – Sea monster
* Bannik (Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
* Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit
* Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
* Bardha (Albanian) – Mountain spirit
* Bardi (Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
* Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
* Bar Juchne (Jewish) – Gigantic bird
* Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
* Barong (Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
* Basajaun (Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
* Baš Čelik (Serbian) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
* Bashe (Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
* Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
* Basilisk (Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
* Basty (Turkic) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
* Bathala (Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
* Batibat (Philippine) – Female night-demon
* Batsu (Chinese) – Drought spirit
* Baubas (Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
* Bauk (Slavic) – Darkness beast
* Baykok (Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
* Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) – Werewolf
* Beast of Gévaudan (France) – French werewolf
* Bean Nighe (Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Behemoth (Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
* Bendigeidfran (Welsh) – Giant king
* Bennu (Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
* Berehynia (Slavic) – Water spirit
* Bergrisar (Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
* Bergsrå (Norse) – Mountain spirit
* Bestial beast (Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
* Betobeto-san (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
* Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
* Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
* Bies (Slavic) – Demon
* Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
* Binbōgami (Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
* Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
* Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) – Animated biwa
* Black Annis (English) – Blue-faced hag
* Black Dog (British) – Canine death spirit
* Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
* Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
* Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
* Bloody Bones (Irish) – Water bogeyman
* Błudnik (Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
* Blue Crow (Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
* Bluecap (English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
* Bodach (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
* Bogeyman (English) – Malevolent spirit
* Boggart (English) – Malevolent household spirit
* Boginki (Slavic) – Nature spirit
* Bogle (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
* Boi-tatá (Brazilian) – Giant snake
* Bolla (Albanian) – Dragon
* Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
* Boo Hag (American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
* Boobrie (Scottish) – Roaring water bird
* Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) – Death spirit
* Brag (English) – Malevolent water horse
* British big cat (English) – mysterious black panther
* Brownie (English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
* Broxa (Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
* Bucca (Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
* Bokkenrijders (Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
* Bugbear (English) – Bearlike goblin
* Buggane (Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
* Bugul Noz (Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
* Bukavac (Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
* Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
* Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
* Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
* Byangoma (Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
* Bysen (Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit

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