Fantasy Creatures - B

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Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag.

Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people.

Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit.

Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish.

Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent.

Bai Ze (Chinese) - Sheep-like animal.

Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit.

Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghost whale.

Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat.

Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal.

Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon.

Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature.

Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses.

Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon.

Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit.

Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit.

Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet.

Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit.

Barghest - Yorkshire black dog.

Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird.

Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles.

Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit.

Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race.

Basan (Japanese) - Fire-breathing chicken.

BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration.

Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid.

Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard.

Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon.

Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit.

Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit.

Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton.

Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe).

Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal.

Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king.

Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix.

Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit.

Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant.

Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit.

Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter.

Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps.

Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide.

Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster.

Bies (Slavic) - Demon.

Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty.

Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid.

Biwa-yanagi (Japanese) - Animated biwa.

Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag.

Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit.

Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog.

Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso.

Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman.

Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit.

Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit.

Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit.

Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit.

Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit.

Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake.

Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon.

Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung.

Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird.

Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit.

Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse.

Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit.

Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk.

Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - Damned bandits.

Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin.

Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid.

Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit.

Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster.

Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate.

Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster.

Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse.

Buruburu (Japanese) - Spirit which causes the shivers.

Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men.

Byangoma (Hindu) - Fortune-telling birds.

Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit.