List of legendary creatures (C)




 * 1) Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
 * 2) Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
 * 3) Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
 * 4) Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
 * 5) Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
 * 6) Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
 * 7) Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
 * 8) Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
 * 9) Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
 * 10) Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
 * 11) Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
 * 12) Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
 * 13) Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
 * 14) Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
 * 15) Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
 * 16) Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
 * 17) Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
 * 18) Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
 * 19) Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
 * 20) Chareng (Meitei mythology) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
 * 21) Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
 * 22) Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
 * 23) Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
 * 24) Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
 * 25) Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
 * 26) Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
 * 27) Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
 * 28) Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
 * 29) Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
 * 30) Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
 * 31) Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
 * 32) Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
 * 33) Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
 * 34) Cetus
 * 35) Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
 * 36) Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
 * 37) Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
 * 38) Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
 * 39) Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
 * 40) Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
 * 41) Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
 * 42) Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
 * 43) Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
 * 44) Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
 * 45) Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
 * 46) Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
 * 47) Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
 * 48) Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
 * 49) Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
 * 50) Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
 * 51) Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
 * 52) Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
 * 53) Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
 * 54) Chōchinobake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
 * 55) Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
 * 56) Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
 * 57) Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
 * 58) Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
 * 59) Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
 * 60) Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
 * 61) Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
 * 62) Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
 * 63) Chullachaki
 * 64) Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
 * 65) Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
 * 66) Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
 * 67) Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
 * 68) Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
 * 69) Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
 * 70) Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
 * 71) Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
 * 72) Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
 * 73) Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
 * 74) Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
 * 75) Cofgod (English) – Cove god
 * 76) Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
 * 77) Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
 * 78) Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
 * 79) Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
 * 80) Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
 * 81) Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
 * 82) The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
 * 83) Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
 * 84) Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
 * 85) Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
 * 86) Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
 * 87) Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
 * 88) Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
 * 89) Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
 * 90) Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
 * 91) Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
 * 92) Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid