List of legendary creatures (G)

* Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
* Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
* Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
* Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
* Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
* Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
* Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
* Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
* Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
* Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
* Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous hound
* Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
* Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
* Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
* Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
* Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
* Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
* Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
* German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
* Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
* Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
* Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
* Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
* Giant
* Giant animal
* Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
* Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
* Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
* Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
* Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
* Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
* Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
* Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
* Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
* Goblin (Medieval folklore) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
* Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
* Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
* Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
* Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
* Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
* Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
* Gremlin (Modern folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
* Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
* Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
* Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
* Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
* Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
* Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
* Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
* Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
* Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
* Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
* Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
* Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
* Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
* Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
* Gyascutus (American folklore) - Four-legged herbivore
* Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
* Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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