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

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* Hábrók (Nordic) – listed as the "best" hawk
* Hadhayosh (Persian) – gigantic land animal
* Hades (Greek) – Ruler of the Underworld
* Haetae (Korean) – dog-lion hybrid
* Hag (Many cultures worldwide) – wise old woman who is usually a malevolent spirit or a disguised goddess
* Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) – water serpent
* Halloi (Sanamahism) - natural maiden spirits of celestial origin
* Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) – male cannibalistic partially invisible monster
* Hakutaku (Japanese) – talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
* Hākuturi (Māori) – nature guardian
* Half-elf (Nordic) – human-elf hybrid
* Haltija (Finnish) – spirit that protects a specific place
* Hamadryad (Greek) – oak tree nymph
* Hamingja (Scandinavian) – personal protection spirit
* Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu and Jainism) – mystic bird
* Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) – long-eared humanoid
* Hantu Air (Malay) – shapeshifting water spirit
* Hantu Demon (Philippine) – demon
* Hantu Raya (Malay) – demonic servant
* Harionago (Japanese) – humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
* Harpy (Greek) – birdlike human-headed death spirit
* Haugbúi (Nordic) – undead being who lives in its burial mound
* Havsrå (Nordic) – saltwater spirit
* Helloi (Meitei mythology) – celestial maidens, daughters of the Sky God Salailen
* Headless Horseman (European) – humanoid spirit who haunts or kills
* Headless Mule (Brazilian) – fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
* Hecatonchires (Greek) – primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
* Heikegani (Japanese) – crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
* Heinzelmännchen (German) – household spirit
* Helead (Greek) – fen nymph
* Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) – underworld dog
* Heracles (Greek) – gatekeeper of Olympus
* Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) – glowing bird
* Herensuge (Basque) – dragon
* Hesperides (Greek) – nymph daughters of Atlas
* Hidebehind (United States) – nocturnal forest creature
* Hiderigami (Japanese) – drought spirit
* Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – falcon-headed sphinx
* Hihi (Japanese) – baboon monster
* Hiisi (Finnish) – nature guardian
* Hippalectryon (Greek) – a horse-rooster hybrid
* Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician) – horse-fish hybrid
* Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) – hybrid of a griffin and horse; a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
* Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) – horse-hoofed humanoid
* Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) – deer-goat hybrid
* Hitodama (Japanese) – ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
* Hitotsume-kozō (Japanese) – one-eyed childlike spirit
* Hob (English) – house spirit
* Hobbididance (English) – malevolent spirit
* Hobgoblin (Medieval) – friendly or amusing goblin
* Hodag (United States) – frog-mammoth-lizard hybrid
* Hokhokw (Kwakiutl) – bird
* Hōkō (Japanese) – dog-like Chinese tree spirit
* Hó͘-ko͘-pô (Taiwanese) – a tiger spirit
* Homa (Persian) – eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
* Hombre Caiman (Colombian) – human-alligator hybrid
* Hombre Gato (Latin America) – human-cat hybrid
* Homunculus (Alchemy) – small animated construct
* Hō-ō (Japanese) – rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
* Hoopoe (multiple cultures) – near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
* Hoop snake (United States, Canada, and Australia) – snake which rolls by taking its tail in its mouth
* Horned Serpent (Native American) – serpentine rain spirit
* Hotoke (Japanese) – deceased person
* Houri (Islamic) – heavenly beings
* Hraesvelg (Norse) – Jötunn, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings
* Hrímþurs (Nordic) – Rime or frost jötunn
* Huaychivo (Mayan) – human-deer hybrid
* Hue-tsiau (Taiwanese) – firebird
* Huginn and Muninn (Norse) – pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin whose names mean Thought and Memory
* Huldufólk (Icelandic/Faroese) – secret mound/rock dwelling elves
* Hulder (Scandinavian) – forest spirit
* Huli jing (Chinese) – nine-tailed fox spirit
* Huma (Persian) – regenerative fire bird
* Humbaba (Akkadian) – lion-faced giant
* Hundun (Chinese) – chaos spirit
* Hupia (Taíno) – nocturnal ghost
* Hyakume (Japanese) – hundred-eyes creature
* Hydra (Greek) – multi-headed water serpent/dragon
* Hydrus (or Hydros) (Medieval Bestiary) – a water snake with various abilities
* Hyōsube (Japanese) – hair-covered kappa
* Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) – snake that kills its victims in their sleep
* Hudhud (Islamic) – a legendary hoopoe bird

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