# List of legendary creatures (P)
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* Paasselkä devils (Finnish) – Spectral fire
* Pakhangba (Meitei mythology and Sanamahism) – Serpentine dragon, ruler of the universe
* Pamola (Abenaki) – Weather spirit
* Panes (Greek) – Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
* Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) – White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes
* Panis (Hindu) – Demons with herds of stolen cows
* Panlong (Chinese) – Water dragon
* Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid with gigantic ears
* Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline with sweet breath
* Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
* Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
* Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed leopard
* Patagon (Medieval folklore) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
* Patasola (Latin America) – Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
* Patupairehe (Māori) – White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) – Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) – Spring nymph
* Pegasus (Greek) – Winged horse
* Pegacorn – Pegasus-unicorn hybrid
* Pelesit (Malay) – Servant spirit
* Peluda (French) – Dragon
* Penanggalan (Malay) – Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
* Peng (Chinese) – Giant bird
* Penghou (Chinese) – Tree spirit
* Peri (Persian) – Winged humanoid
* Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) – Deer-bird hybrid
* Pesanta (Catalan) – Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
* Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) – Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
* Phi Tai Hong (Thai) – Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death
* Phoenix (Phoenician) – Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes
* Piasa (Native American mythology) – Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
* Piatek (Armenian) – Large land animal
* Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) – Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
* Pillan (Mapuche) – Nature spirit
* Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) – Water spirit
* Piru (Finnish) – Minor demon
* Pishacha (Hindu) – Carrion-eating demon
* Pishtaco (Peru) – Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes
* Pita-skog (Abenaki) – Serpentine rain spirit
* Pixie (Cornish) – Little people and nature spirits
* Pixiu (Chinese) – Winged lion
* Pi yao (Chinese) – Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
* Plakavac (Slavic) – Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
* Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) – Tree spirit
* Polevik (Polish) – Little people and field spirits
* Pollo Maligno (Colombian) – Man-eating chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) – Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) – Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) – Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) – Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) – Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat
* Popobawa (Africa) – One-eyed creatures bat-like
* Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology) – Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake
* Pouākai (Māori) – Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain) – Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian – Roman) – Undead wolf
* Psoglav (Serbia) – Dog-headed monster
* Psotnik (Slavic) – Mischievous spirit
* Psychai (Greek) – Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
* Psychic vampire
* Psychopomp (Greek) – Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife
* Púca (Welsh) – Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Púki (Icelandic) – Malevolent little person
* Puck (English) – House spirit
* Putz (German) – House spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) – Headless humanoid
* Puk (Frisian) – House spirit
* Pūķis (Latvian) – Dragon
* Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) – Troll-like gray-skinned being
* Pygmy (Greek) – Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) – Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) – Serpentine dragon

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