# List of legendary creatures (L)
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* La-bar-tu (Assyrian) – Disease demon
* Labbu (Akkadian) – Sea snake
* Lady midday (Slavic) – Sunstroke spirit
* Ladon (Greek) – Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
* Laelaps (Greek) – Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
* Laestrygonians (Greek) – Anthropophagic giants
* Lakanica (Slavic) – Field spirit
* Lake monster (Worldwide) – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world
* Lakhey (Nepalese) – Demon with fangs
* La Llorona (Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning
* Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
* Lambton Worm (English) – Giant worm
* Lamia (Greek) – Child-devouring monster with an upper body of a woman and a tail of a snake
* Lamiak (Basque) – Water spirit with duck-like feet
* La Mojana (Colombian) – Shapeshifting, female water spirit
* Lampades (Greek) – Underworld nymph
* Landvættir (Norse) – Nature spirits
* Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
* Lares (Roman) – House spirit
* La Sayona (Venezuela) – Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
* La Tunda (Colombian) – Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
* Lava bear – Miniature bear thought to inhabit the lava beds of south central Oregon
* Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) – Field spirit
* Lauma (Baltic) – Sky spirit
* Lavellan (Scottish) – Gigantic water rat
* Leanan sidhe (Celtic) – Fairy lover
* Leanashe (Irish) – Possessing spirit or vampire
* Leimoniads (Greek) – Meadow nymph
* Leokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed lion
* Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) – Tiny animal poisonous to lions
* Leprechaun (Irish) – Cobbler spirit
* Leszi (Slavic) – Tree spirit
* Leuce (Greek) – White poplar tree nymph
* Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) – Crocotta-lion hybrid
* Leviathan (Jewish) – Sea monster seen in Job 41
* Leyak (Balinese) – Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
* Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-horse hybrid
* Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-goat hybrid
* Lidérc (Hungary) – Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
* Lietuvēns (Latvia) - Soul of a murdered person
* Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) – Magical bird found at sites of lightning strikes
* Likho (Slavic) – One-eyed hag or goblin
* Lilin (Jewish) – Night-demoness
* Lilitu (Assyrian) – Winged demon
* Limnades (Greek) – Lake nymph
* Lindworm (Germanic) – Dragon
* Ljósálfar (Norse) – Sunlight spirits; the Light Elves
* Ljubi (Albanian) – Demoness
* Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) – Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
* Loch Ness Monster (Scottish) – Serpentine sea monster
* Loki (Norse mythology) – God of night
* Lo-lol (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
* Lóng – Chinese dragon
* Long Ma (Chinese) – Dragon-horse hybrid
* Loogaroo (French America) – Shapeshifting, female vampire
* Lou Carcolh (French) – Snake-mollusk hybrid
* Loup-garou (French) – Werewolf
* Loveland frog (American Folklore) (Ohio) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
* Lubber fiend (English) – House spirit
* Luduan (Chinese) – Truth-detecting animal
* Lugat (Albanian) – Vampire
* Lui-kong-tsiau (Taiwanese) – Thunderbird
* Luison (Guaraní) – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog
* Lusca – Sea Monster
* Lutin (French) – Amusing goblin
* Lyngbakr
* Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline guide spirit

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