List of legendary creatures (S)

* Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
* Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's 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
* Sampaati (Hindu) - brother to the demi-god Jatayu
* Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
* Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
* Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
* Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
* Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
* Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
* 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-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
* Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
* 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 the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
* Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
* Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
* Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
* Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
* Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
* Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
* Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
* Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
* Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
* 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) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
* Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* 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) - An evil or dangerous witch
* Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost
* Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak'in), an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to resemble a wolf or hyena
* 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 (Σειληνοί) (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-Fish Hybrid
* Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
* Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
* Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
* Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
* Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
* Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
* Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter
* Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
* Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
* Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
* Sleipnir (Norse) - eight-legged horse
* Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
* 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 lion with a woman's head
* Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
* Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
* Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves
* 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) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
* Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
* 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) - "swart-elves", Cavern spirit
* 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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