Fantasy Creatures - O
Feb 27, 2012 16:48:13 GMT -8
Post by lyraalluse on Feb 27, 2012 16:48:13 GMT -8
Obake (Japanese) - Shapeshifting spirits.
Obambo (Central African) - Homeless ghost.
Obariyon (Japanese) - Spook which rides piggyback on a human victim and becomes unbearably heavy.
Obayifo (Ashanti) - Vampiric possession spirit.
Obia (West Africa) - Gigantic animal that serves witches.
Oboro-guruma (Japanese) - Ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver.
Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus.
Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit.
Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling.
Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites.
Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
Ohaguro-bettari (Japanese) - Female ghost lacking all facial features except for a large, black-toothed smile.
Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband.
Ōkamuro (Japanese) - Giant face which appears at the door.
Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl.
Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit that manifests as a giant head.
Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore.
Ole-Higue (Guyanese) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night.
Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains.
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire.
Onikuma (Japanese) - Monstrous bear.
Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses.
Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid.
Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon.
Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than spectral) form.
Onza (Aztec and Latin American folklore) - Wild cat, possibly a subspecies of cougar.
Oozlum bird (Unknown origin) - Bird that flies backwards.
Ophiotaurus (Greek) - Bull-serpent hybrid.
Opinicus (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid, similar to a griffin, but with leonine forelimbs.
Orang Bunian (Malay) - Forest spirit.
Orang Minyak (Malay) - Spectral rapist.
Ördög (Hungarian) - Shapeshifting demon.
Oread (Greek) - Mountain nymph.
Ork (Tyrolean) - Little people and house spirits.
Orobas (European) - Horse-headed, honest oracle classed as a demon.
Orphan Bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Peacock-eagle-swan-crane hybrid.
Orthrus (Greek) - Two-headed dog.
Otoroshi (Japanese) - Hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples.
Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit.
Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail.
Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit.
Obambo (Central African) - Homeless ghost.
Obariyon (Japanese) - Spook which rides piggyback on a human victim and becomes unbearably heavy.
Obayifo (Ashanti) - Vampiric possession spirit.
Obia (West Africa) - Gigantic animal that serves witches.
Oboro-guruma (Japanese) - Ghostly oxcart with the face of its driver.
Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus.
Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit.
Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling.
Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites.
Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
Ohaguro-bettari (Japanese) - Female ghost lacking all facial features except for a large, black-toothed smile.
Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband.
Ōkamuro (Japanese) - Giant face which appears at the door.
Okiku (Japanese) - Plate-counting ghost of a servant girl.
Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit that manifests as a giant head.
Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore.
Ole-Higue (Guyanese) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night.
Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains.
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire.
Onikuma (Japanese) - Monstrous bear.
Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses.
Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid.
Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon.
Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in physical (rather than spectral) form.
Onza (Aztec and Latin American folklore) - Wild cat, possibly a subspecies of cougar.
Oozlum bird (Unknown origin) - Bird that flies backwards.
Ophiotaurus (Greek) - Bull-serpent hybrid.
Opinicus (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid, similar to a griffin, but with leonine forelimbs.
Orang Bunian (Malay) - Forest spirit.
Orang Minyak (Malay) - Spectral rapist.
Ördög (Hungarian) - Shapeshifting demon.
Oread (Greek) - Mountain nymph.
Ork (Tyrolean) - Little people and house spirits.
Orobas (European) - Horse-headed, honest oracle classed as a demon.
Orphan Bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Peacock-eagle-swan-crane hybrid.
Orthrus (Greek) - Two-headed dog.
Otoroshi (Japanese) - Hairy creature that perches on the gates to shrines and temples.
Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit.
Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail.
Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit.
