# List of legendary creatures (N)
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* Nachzehrer (German) – Anthropophagous undead
* Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) – Nature and water spirits, serpentine or human-serpent hybrids
* Naga fireballs (Thai) – Spectral fire
* Nagual (Mesoamerica) – Human-animal shapeshifter
* Naiad (Greek) – Freshwater nymph
* Näkki (Finnish) – Water spirit
* Namahage (Japanese) – Ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
* Namazu (Japanese) – Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
* Nando-baba (Japanese) – Old woman who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
* Nandi Bear (East Africa) – Monster Bear-like
* Nang Takian (Thai) – Tree spirit
* Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) – Earthquake spirit
* Napaeae (Greek) – Grotto nymph
* Narasimha (Hindu mythology) – Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion
* Narecnitsi (Slavic) – Fate spirit
* Nariphon (Thai) – Pod people
* Nargun (Gunai) – Water monster
* Nasnas (Arabian) – Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body
* Nav' (Slavic) – Ghost
* Nawao (Hawaiian) – Savage humanoid
* N-dam-keno-wet (Abenaki) – Fish-human hybrid
* Neptune (Roman mythology) – God of freshwater and sea
* Neck (Germanic mythology) – Female water spirit
* Negret (Catalan) – Little people that turn into coins
* Nekomata (Japanese) – Split-tailed magical cat
* Nekomusume (Japanese) – Cat in the form of a girl
* Nemean Lion (Greek) – Lion with impenetrable skin
* Nephilim (Abrahamic mythology) – Gigantic sons of Grigori and human women
* Nereid (Greek) – Nymph daughters of Nereus
* Ngen (Mapuche) – Nature spirit
* Nguruvilu (Mapuche) – Fox-like water snake
* Nian (Chinese) – Predatory animal
* Night hag (Worldwide) – Supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.
* Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) – Warrior ghosts
* Nikusui (Japanese) – Monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body
* Nimerigar (Shoshone) – Aggressive little people
* Ningyo (Japanese) – Monkey-fish hybrid
* Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) – Large reptile, possibly a dragon
* Nisse (Scandinavian) – House spirit
* Níðhöggr (Norse) – Dragon
* Nivatakavachas (Hindu) – Ocean demon
* Nix (Germanic) – Female water spirit
* Nobusuma (Japanese) – Supernatural wall, also a monstrous flying squirrel
* Nocnitsa (Slavic) – Nightmare spirit
* Noppera-bō (Japanese) – Faceless ghost
* Nozuchi (Japanese) – Small sea serpent
* Nuckelavee (Scottish) – Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
* Nue (Japanese) – Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
* Nü Gui (Chinese) – Vengeful female ghost
* Nukekubi (Japanese) – Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
* Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) – Forest spirit
* Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
* Numen (Roman) – Tutelary spirit
* Nuno (Philippine) – Malevolent little people
* Nuppeppo (Japanese) – Animated chunk of dead flesh
* Nurarihyon (Japanese) – Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
* Nure-onna (Japanese) – Female monster who appears on the beach
* Nurikabe (Japanese) – Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
* Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) – Snake-spirit of the Zambezi River
* Nykštukas (Lithuanian) – Cavern spirit
* Nymph (Greek) – Nature spirit

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