List of legendary creatures (H)

* Habrok (Norse) - the "best" hawk
* Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
* Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
* Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
* Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
* Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
* Hakutaku (Japanese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
* Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
* Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
* Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
* Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
* Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
* Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
* Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
* Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
* Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
* Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
* Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
* Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
* Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
* Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
* Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
* Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
* Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
* Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
* Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
* Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
* Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
* Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
* Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
* Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
* Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
* Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
* Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
* Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffin and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
* Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
* Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) - Deer-goat hybrid
* Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
* Hitotsume-kozō (Japanese) - One-eyed childlike spirit
* Hob (English) - House spirit
* Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
* Hobgoblin (Medieval folklore) - Friendly or amusing goblin
* Hodag (Native American) - part frog, part mammoth, part lizard,
* Hokhokw (Kwakiutl) - a bird
* Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
* Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
* Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
* Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
* Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
* Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
* Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
* Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
* Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
* Hraesvelg (Norse) - a giant, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings
* Hrímþursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
* Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
* Hugin and Munin (Norse) - Thought and Memory; a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin
* Huldra (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
* Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
* Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
* Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
* Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
* Hupia (Taíno) - Nocturnal ghost
* Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
* Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
* Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
* Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
* Hyōsube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
* Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
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