List of legendary creatures (Y)

* Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
* Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
* Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
* Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
* Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
* Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
* Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
* Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
* Yali (Hindu) - Lion-like beast
* Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
* Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
* Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
* Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
* Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
* Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
* Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
* Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
* Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
* Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
* Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
* Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
* Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
* Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
* Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
* Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
* Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
* Yōkai (Japanese) - Supernatural Monster
* Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
* Yong - Korean dragon
* Yōsei (Japanese) - Fairy
* Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
* You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) - Wandering ghost
* Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
* Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
* Yuan Gui (Chinese) - Distressed ghost
* Yukinko (Japanese) - Childlike snow spirit
* Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
* Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
* Yuxa (Tatar) - 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
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