List of legendary creatures (C)

* Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
* Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
* Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
* Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
* Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
* Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoids with an eight-year lifespan
* Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
* Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
* Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
* Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
* Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
* Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
* Camulatz (Mayan) - A bird that ate the heads of the first men
* Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
* Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
* Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
* Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
* Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
* Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
* Carbuncle (Latin America) - A small creature with a jewel on its head
* Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
* Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
* Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
* Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
* Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
* Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
* Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
* Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
* Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
* Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
* Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
* Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
* Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
* Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
* Changeling (European) - Non-human humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
* Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
* Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
* Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
* Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
* Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
* Chickcharney (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid
* Chimbwe (hyena) in the mythology of the Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania)
* Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
* Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
* Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
* Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
* Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
* Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
* Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
* Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
* Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savages with dog teeth
* Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
* Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram
* Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
* Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
* Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
* Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts of women that died in childbirth
* Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
* Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
* Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
* Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
* Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
* Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
* Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
* Cofgod (English) - Old English term meaning "cove-god"
* Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
* Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
* Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
* Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
* Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
* Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
* The Cu Bird (Mexican)
* Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
* Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
* Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
* Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
* Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
* Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
* Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
* Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
* Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
* Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
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