Fantasy Creatures - S

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Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit.

Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū.

Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down.

Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental.

Samebito (Japanese) - Shark demon.

Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit.

Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod.

Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit.

Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune.

Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit.

Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog.

Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid.

Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit.

Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates.

Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit.

Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead.

Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey.

Scorpion Man (Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid.

Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads.

Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee.

Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid.

Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals.

Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster.

Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern.

Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night.

Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter.

Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard.

Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom.

Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit.

Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid.

Setotaishō (Japanese) - Warrior composed of discarded earthenware.

Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid.

Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint.

Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk.

Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird.

Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon.

Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head.

Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) - Water spirit.

Shen (Chinese) - Shapeshifing sea monster.

Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon.

Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku.

Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit.

Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit.

Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag.

Shin (Japanese) - Giant clam which creates mirages.

Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit.

Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth.

Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person.

Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid.

Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal.

Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol.

Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights.

Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch.

Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost.

Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul.

Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Oni.

Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit.

Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire.

Silenoi (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus.

Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog.

Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid.

Singa (Batak) - Feline animal.

Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit.

Siren (Greek) - Human-headed bird.

Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird.

Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs.

Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent.

Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants.

Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit.

Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit.

Skin-walker (Native American and Norse) - Animal-human shapeshifter.

Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit.

Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant.

Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp.

Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit.

Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost.

Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves.

Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk.

Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon.

Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut.

Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus.

Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto.

Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night.

Spearfinger (Cherokee) - Sharp-fingered hag.

Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost.

Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head.

Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people.

Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins.

Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves.

Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire.

Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird.

Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet.

Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead.

Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit.

Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird.

Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer.

Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon.

Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit.

Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag.

Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night.

Suppon-no-yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost with a face like a soft-shelled turtle.

Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound.

Svartálfar (Norse) - "swart-elves", Cavern spirit.

The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid.

Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter.

Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental.

Sylvan (Medieval folklore) - Forest spirit.

Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) - African giant.

Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) - Reptilian humanoid.