List of legendary creatures (B)

* Ba (Egyptian) - word for the soul of the deceased. It was depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
* Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
* Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
* Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
* Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
* Bar Juchne (Jewish) - A bird
* Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
* Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
* Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
* Bake-kujira (Japanese) - A ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline
* Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
* Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
* Bakhtak (Persian) - Night demon
* Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
* Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
* Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
* Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
* Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
* Baobhan Sith (Celtic) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers by night
* Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
* Bardi (Turkish) - Shapechanging death spirit
* Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
* Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
* Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
* Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
* Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
* BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
* Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
* Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
* Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
* Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
* Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
* Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
* Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
* Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
* Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
* Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
* Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
* Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
* Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
* Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
* Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
* Bies (Slavic) - Demon
* Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
* Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
* Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
* Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese)- Animated biwa
* Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
* Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
* Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
* Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
* Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
* Blue Crow (Brazilian) - a giant amazonian bird.
* Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
* Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
* Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
* Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
* Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
* Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
* Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
* Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
* Boo Hag (American folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
* Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
* Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
* Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
* Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
* Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
* Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - bandits
* Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
* Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
* Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
* Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
* Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate
* Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
* Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
* Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
* Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
* Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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