List of legendary creatures (P)

* Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
* Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
* Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
* Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with giant ears, eight fingers and toes, and white hair
* Panis (Hindu) - Demons with herds of stolen cows
* Panlong (Chinese) - Water dragon
* Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid with gigantic ears
* Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline with sweet breath
* Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
* Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
* Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed panther
* Patagon (Medieval folklore) - Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
* Patasola (Latin America) - Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
* Patupairehe (Māori) - White-skinned nature spirits
* Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
* Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
* Pegasus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Pelesit (Malay) - Servant spirit
* Peluda (French) - Dragon
* Penanggalan (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
* Peng (Chinese) - Giant bird
* Penghou (Chinese) - Tree spirit
* Peri (Persian) - Winged humanoid
* Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) - Deer-bird hybrid
* Pesanta (Catalan) - Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
* Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) - Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
* Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
* Piasa (Native American mythology) - Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
* Piatek (Armenian) - Large land animal
* Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) - Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
* Pillan (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
* Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) - Water spirit
* Piru (Finnish) - Minor demon
* Pishacha (Hindu) - Carrion-eating demon
* Pita-skog (Abenaki) - Serpentine rain spirit
* Pixie (Cornish) - Little people and nature spirits
* Pixiu (Chinese) - Winged lion
* Pi yao (Chinese) - Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
* Plakavac (Slavic) - Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
* Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) - Tree spirit
* Polevik (Polish) - Little people and field spirits
* Pollo Maligno (Colombian) - Man-eating chicken spirit
* Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
* Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
* Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
* Ponaturi (Māori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
* Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
* Poukai (Māori) - Giant bird
* Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
* Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
* Psoglav (Serbia) - Dog-headed monster
* Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
* Psychai (Greek) - Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
* Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
* Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
* Púki (Icelandic) - malevolent little person
* Puck (English) - House spirit
* Putz (German) - house spirit
* Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
* Puk (Frisian) - house spirit
* Pūķis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
* Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) - Troll-like being with gray skin.
* Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
* Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
* Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
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