List of legendary creatures (L)

* La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
* Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
* Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
* Ladon (Greek) - Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
* Laelaps (Greek) - Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
* Laestrygonians (Greek) - Anthropophagic giants
* Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
* Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
* La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
* Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm
* Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
* Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
* La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
* Lampades (Greek) - Underworld nymph
* Landvættir (Norse) - Nature spirits
* Lares (Roman) - House spirit
* La Sayona (Venezuela) - Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
* La Tunda (Colombian) - Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
* Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
* Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
* Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
* Leanan sidhe (Celtic) - Fairy lover
* Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
* Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
* Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
* Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) - Tiny animal poisonous to lions
* Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
* Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
* Leuce (Greek) - White poplar tree nymph
* Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
* Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster, as seen in Job 41
* Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
* Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-horse hybrid
* Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-goat hybrid
* Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
* Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of lightning strikes
* Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
* Lilith (Jewish) - Night-demoness
* Lilitu (Assyrian) - Winged demon
* Limnades (Greek) - Lake nymph
* Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
* Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
* Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
* Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
* Lóng - Chinese dragon
* Longana (Italian) - Female human-goat hybrid and water spirit
* Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
* Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
* Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
* Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
* Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
* Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
* Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
* Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
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