# List of legendary creatures (G)
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* Gaasyendietha (Seneca) – Dragon
* Gagana (Russian) – Iron-beaked bird with copper talons
* Gaki (Japanese) – Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Gaokerena (Zoroastrianism) - Mythic plant
* Gallu (Mesopotamian) – Underworld demons
* Galtzagorriak (Basque) – Small demonic servants
* Gamayun (Russian) – Prophetic human-headed bird
* Gana (Hindu) – Attendants of Shiva
* Gancanagh (Irish) – Male fairy that seduces human women
* Gandabherunda (Hindu) – Double-headed bird
* Gandharva (Hindu) – Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
* Gargouille (French) – Water dragon
* Garkain (Australian Aboriginal) – Flying humanoid who envelops his victims
* Garmr (Norse) – Giant, ravenous hound
* Garuda (Hindu) – Human-eagle hybrid
* Gashadokuro (Japanese) – Giant malevolent skeletons
* Gaueko (Basque) – Wolf capable of walking upright
* Geb (Egyptian) – God of the Earth, married to Nut
* Ged (Heraldic) – The fish pike
* Gegenees (Greek) – Six-armed giant
* Genderuwo (Indonesia) – Ape-like mystery
* Genius loci (Roman) – Spirit that protects a specific place
* German (Slavic) – Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
* Geryon (Greek) – Three-headed six-armed giant with three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
* Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) – Tree guardian
* Ghost (Worldwide) – Disembodied spirits of those that have died
* Ghost riders
* Ghoul (Arabian) – Cannibalistic shapeshifting desert genie often classified as undead.
* Giant (Worldwide) – Immensely large and strong humanoids
* Giant animal (Worldwide) – Unusually large beasts
* Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) – Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid water spirit
* Gidim (Sumerian) – Ghost
* Gigantes (Greek) – Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
* Gigelorum (Scottish) – Smallest animal
* Girtablilu (Akkadian) – Human-scorpion hybrid
* Gjenganger (Scandinavian) – Corporeal ghost
* Glaistig (Scottish) – Human-goat hybrid
* Glashtyn (Manx) – Malevolent water horse
* Gnome (Alchemy) – Diminutive Earth elemental
* Goblin (Medieval) – Grotesque, mischievous little people
* Gog (English) – Giant protector of London
* Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
* Golem (Jewish) – Animated construct
* Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy humanoid
* Gorgon (Greek) – Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
* Goryō (Japanese) – Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
* Grassman (Ohio, USA) – Ape-like cryptid
* Gremlin (Folklore) – Creatures that sabotage airplanes
* Griffin (Heraldic) – Lion-eagle hybrid
* Grigori (Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mythology) – Fallen angels, father of Nephilim
* Grim (English and Scandinavian) – Tutelary spirits of churches
* Grim Reaper (Worldwide) – Death angel often thought to be God's/Satan's assistant
* Grindylow (English) – Malevolent water spirit
* Grootslang (South Africa) - Large snake often associated with diamonds
* Gualichu (Mapuche) – Malevolent spirit
* Guardian angel (Christian, Jewish, and Islamic belief) – Subclassification of angels that guard and protect a specific person or living being
* Gud-elim (Akkadian) – Human-bull hybrid
* Guhin (Japanese) – Anthropomorphic bird
* Gui Po (Chinese) – Ghost that manifests as an old woman
* Gui Shu (Chinese) – Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
* Gulon (Germanic) – Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Gumiho (Korean mythology) – Demonic fox with thousands of tails believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails
* Gurangatch (Australian Aboriginal) - An enormous reptile-fish whose movements carved out the landscape south of the Blue Mountains
* Gurumapa (Nepalese) – Child-eating demon
* Gwyllgi (Welsh) – Black dog
* Gwyllion (Welsh) – Malevolent spirit
* Gyascutus (American folklore) – Four-legged herbivore
* Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) – Black dog
* Gyūki (Japanese) – Bull-headed monster

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