List of legendary creatures (B)




 * 1) Ba (Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
 * 2) Baba Yaga (Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
 * 3) Babi ngepet (Indonesia) – Monster boar
 * 4) Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
 * 5) Badalisc (Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
 * 6) Bagiennik (Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
 * 7) Bahamut (Arabian) – Giant fish
 * 8) Bai Ze (Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
 * 9) Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
 * 10) Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
 * 11) Bake-kujira (Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
 * 12) Bakeneko (Japanese) – Magical cat
 * 13) Bakezōri (Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
 * 14) Bakhtak (Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
 * 15) Baku (Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
 * 16) Bakunawa (Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
 * 17) Balaur (Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
 * 18) Baloz (Albanian) – Sea monster
 * 19) Bannik (Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
 * 20) Banshee (Irish) – Screaming death spirit
 * 21) Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
 * 22) Bardha (Albanian) – Mountain spirit
 * 23) Bardi (Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
 * 24) Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
 * 25) Bar Juchne (Jewish) – Gigantic bird
 * 26) Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
 * 27) Barong (Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
 * 28) Basajaun (Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
 * 29) Baš Čelik (Serbian) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
 * 30) Bashe (Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
 * 31) Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
 * 32) Basilisk (Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
 * 33) Basty (Turkic) -  Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
 * 34) Bathala (Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
 * 35) Batibat (Philippine) – Female night-demon
 * 36) Batsu (Chinese) – Drought spirit
 * 37) Baubas (Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
 * 38) Bauk (Slavic) – Darkness beast
 * 39) Baykok (Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
 * 40) Beast of Bray Road (American Folklore) – Werewolf
 * 41) Beast of Gévaudan (France) – French werewolf
 * 42) Bean Nighe (Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
 * 43) Behemoth (Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
 * 44) Bendigeidfran (Welsh) – Giant king
 * 45) Bennu (Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
 * 46) Berehynia (Slavic) – Water spirit
 * 47) Bergrisar (Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
 * 48) Bergsrå (Norse) – Mountain spirit
 * 49) Bestial beast (Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
 * 50) Betobeto-san (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
 * 51) Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
 * 52) Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
 * 53) Bies (Slavic) – Demon
 * 54) Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
 * 55) Binbōgami (Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
 * 56) Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
 * 57) Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese) – Animated biwa
 * 58) Black Annis (English) – Blue-faced hag
 * 59) Black Dog (British) – Canine death spirit
 * 60) Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
 * 61) Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
 * 62) Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
 * 63) Bloody Bones (Irish) – Water bogeyman
 * 64) Błudnik (Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
 * 65) Blue Crow (Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
 * 66) Bluecap (English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
 * 67) Bodach (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
 * 68) Bogeyman (English) – Malevolent spirit
 * 69) Boggart (English) – Malevolent household spirit
 * 70) Boginki (Slavic) – Nature spirit
 * 71) Bogle (Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
 * 72) Boi-tatá (Brazilian) – Giant snake
 * 73) Bolla (Albanian) – Dragon
 * 74) Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
 * 75) Boo Hag (American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
 * 76) Boobrie (Scottish) – Roaring water bird
 * 77) Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) – Death spirit
 * 78) Brag (English) – Malevolent water horse
 * 79) British big cat (English) – mysterious black panther
 * 80) Brownie (English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
 * 81) Broxa (Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
 * 82) Bucca (Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
 * 83) Bokkenrijders (Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
 * 84) Bugbear (English) – Bearlike goblin
 * 85) Buggane (Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
 * 86) Bugul Noz (Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
 * 87) Bukavac (Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
 * 88) Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
 * 89) Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
 * 90) Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
 * 91) Byangoma (Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
 * 92) Bysen (Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit