List of legendary creatures (N)

* Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
* Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) - Nature and water spirits, serpentine or human-serpent hybrids
* Naga fireballs (Thai) - Spectral fire
* Nagual (Mesoamerica) - Human-animal shapeshifter
* Naiad (Greek) - Freshwater nymph
* Näkki (Finnish) - Water spirit
* Namahage (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
* Namazu (Japanese) - Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
* Nando-baba (Japanese) - Old woman who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
* Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
* Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
* Narasimha (Hindu mythology) - Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion
* Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
* Naree Pons (Thai) - Pod people
* Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
* Nasnas (Arabian) - Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body
* Nav' (Slavic) - Ghost
* Nawao (Hawaiian) - Savage humanoid
* N-dam-keno-wet (Abenaki) - Fish-human hybrid
* Necromancer (Global) - An evildoer that summons dead people
* Negret (Catalan) - Little people that turn into coins
* Nekomata (Japanese) - Split-tailed magical cat
* Nekomusume (Japanese) - Cat in the form of a girl
* Nemean Lion (Greek) - Lion with impenetrable skin
* Nephilim (Jewish) - Giant
* Nereid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Nereus
* Ngen (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
* Nguruvilu (Mapuche) - Fox-like water snake
* Nian (Chinese) - Predatory animal
* Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) - Warrior ghosts
* Nikusui (Japanese) - Monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim's body
* Nimerigar (Shoshone) - Aggressive little people
* Ningyo (Japanese) - Monkey-fish hybrid
* Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) - Large reptile, possibly a dragon
* Nisse (Scandinavian) - House spirit
* Níðhöggr (Norse) - Dragon
* Nivatakavachas (Hindu) - Ocean demon
* Nix (Germanic) - Female water spirit
* Nobusuma (Japanese) - Supernatural wall. Also a monstrous flying squirrel
* Nocnitsa (Slavic) - Nightmare spirit
* Noppera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
* Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
* Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
* Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
* Nu Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
* Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
* Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
* Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
* Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
* Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
* Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chunk of dead flesh
* Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
* Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
* Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
* Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) - The snake-spirit of the Zambezi River
* Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
* Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
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