Fantasy Creatures - G

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Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon.

Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons.

Ga-gorib (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous monster.

Gagoze (Japanese) - Demon who attacked young priests at Gangō-ji temple.

Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people.

Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons.

Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants.

Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head.

Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva.

Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women.

Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird.

Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal.

Gangi-kozō (Japanese) - Fish-eating water-monster.

Garappa (Japanese) - Kappa from Kyūshū.

Gargouille (French) - Water dragon.

Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf.

Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid.

Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons.

Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright.

Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike.

Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant.

Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit.

Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place.

German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail.

Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs.

Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian.

Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died.

Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus.

Giant (mythology)

Giant animal (mythology)

Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit.

Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost.

Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs.

Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal.

Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid.

Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost.

Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid.

Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse.

Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental.

Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people.

Gog (English) - Giant protector of London.

Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas.

Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct.

Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid.

Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone.

Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs.

Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes.

Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid.

Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels.

Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches.

Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit.

Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world.

Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit.

Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid.

Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird.

Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman.

Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving.

Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid.

Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.

Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog.

Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit.

Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog.

Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster.