# List of legendary creatures (K)
## Lists of legendary creatures

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

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