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

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* Saci (Brazilian) – One-legged nature spirit
* Sack Man (Worldwide)
* Sagari (Japanese) – Horse head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
* Sakabashira (Japanese) – Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
* Salamander (Alchemy) – Fire elemental
* Samebito (Japanese) – Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea
* Samodiva (Slavic) – Nature spirit
* Sampati (Hindu) – The demigod Jatayu's brother
* Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children
* Sango (South Western Nigeria) – Yoruba king of arts, music, dance and entertainment
* Santelmo (Philippine) – Spirits in the form of fireballs that roam around the forest
* Santa Claus (North Pole-European folklore) – Elderly man who delivers gifts to well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve
* Sânziană (Romanian) – Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) – Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) – Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) – Wicked monkey spirit who was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) – Mind-reading humanoid
* Satan (Heaven-Abrahamic mythology) – Ruler of Hell
* Satyr (Greek) – Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
* Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
* Sazae-oni (Japanese) – Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
* Sceadugenga (English) – Shapeshifting undead
* Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake which mesmerizes its prey
* Scorpion Man (Sumerian) – Human-scorpion hybrid
* Scylla (Greek) – Human-snake hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve legs, and six long-necked snake heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed bee
* Sea-lion
* Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid
* Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals
* Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster
* Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed wyvern
* Seko (Japanese) – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
* Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) – Human-seal shapeshifter
* Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) – Human-faced frog which guides newly deceased souls to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake with corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) – Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) – Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Shachihoko (Japanese) – Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) – Spiritual imprint
* Shadow People (American) – Malevolent ghost
* Shahbaz (Persian) – Giant eagle or hawk
* Shaitan (Islam) – Islamic version of the Devil (Satan) from the Bible
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) – Rain bird
* Shapeshifter
* Shedim (Jewish) – Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
* Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) – Water spirit
* Shen (Chinese) – Shapeshifing sea monster
* Shenlong (Chinese) – Weather dragon
* Shibaten (Japanese) – Water spirit from Shikoku
* Shikigami (Japanese) – Servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) – Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) – Underworld hag
* Shinigami (Japanese) – "Death god"
* Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) – White, faceless spirit
* Shirouneri (Japanese) – Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
* Shiryō (Japanese) – Spirit of a dead person
* Shisa (Japanese) – Lion-dog hybrid
* Shishi (Chinese) – Protective animal
* Shōjō (Japanese) – Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
* Shōkera (Japanese) – Creature that peers in through skylights
* Shtriga (Albanian) – Vampire witch that feeds on children
* Shui Gui (Chinese) – Drowned ghost
* Shug Monkey (English) – Dog/monkey
* Shunoban (Japanese) – Red-faced ghoul
* Shuten-dōji (Japanese) – Ruler of the Oni
* Sídhe – (Irish and Scottish) – Ancestral or nature spirit
* Sigbin (Philippine) – Goat-like vampire
* Sileni (Greek) – Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
* Simargl (Slavic) – Winged dog
* Simurgh (Persian) – Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
* Singa (Batak) – Feline animal
* Sint Holo (Choctaw) – Serpentine rain spirit
* Siren (Greek) – Human-bird hybrid
* Sirin (Slavic) – Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) – Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (American Indian) – Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) – Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) – Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) – Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (American Indian) – Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) – Forest spirit
* Sköll (Norse) – Wolf that chases the Sun
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) – Hairy giant
* Skeleton (Medieval folklore) – Living skeletons
* Skrzak (Slavic) – Household spirit
* Sky Women (Polish) – Weather spirit
* Sleipnir (Norse) – Eight-legged horse
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) – Restless ghost
* Snow Lion (Tibetan) – Celestial animal
* Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
* Sōgenbi (Japanese) – Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
* Soragami (Japanese) – Ritual disciplinary demon
* Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) – Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
* Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) – Ghost with an abacus
* Sōtangitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit from Kyoto
* Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) – Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
* Spearfinger (Cherokee) – Sharp-fingered hag
* Spectre (Worldwide) – Terrifying ghost
* Sphinx (Greek) – Winged woman-headed lion
* Spiriduş (Romanian) – Little people
* Spirit – Ghosts
* Spriggan (Cornish) – Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (Medieval folklore) – little people, ghosts or elves
* Squonk (American) – Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears
* Stihi (Albanian) – Demonic dragon who guards a treasure
* Strigoi (Romanian) – Vampire
* Strix (Roman) – Vampiric bird
* Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
* Strzyga (Slavic) – Vampiric undead
* Stuhać (Slavic) – Malevolent mountain spirit
* Stymphalian Bird (Greek) – Metallic bird
* Suangi (New Guinea) – Cannibalistic sorcerer
* Succubus (Judeo-Christian) – Female night-demon and seductress
* Sudice (Slavic) – Fortune spirit
* Sunakake-baba (Japanese) – Sand-throwing hag
* Sunekosuri (Japanese) – Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
* Surma (Finnish) – Hellhound
* Suzaku (Japanese) – Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird
* Svaðilfari (Norse) – Unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir
* Svartálfar (Norse) – Cavern spirits; the Black Elves
* The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) – Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
* Swan maiden (Worldwide) – Swan-human shapeshifter
* Sylph (Alchemy) – Air elemental
* Sylvan (Medieval folklore) – Forest spirit
* Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) – African giant
* Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) – Reptilian humanoid

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