List of legendary creatures (D)




 * 1) Dactyl (Greek) – Little people and smith and healing spirits
 * 2) Daemon (Greek) – Incorporeal spirit
 * 3) Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) – Similar to a deer or ibex; legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side
 * 4) Daidarabotchi (Japanese) – Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
 * 5) Daitengu (Japanese) – Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
 * 6) Daitya (Hindu) – Giant
 * 7) Dandan (Arabian) –  Sea creature
 * 8) Danava (Hindu) – Water demon
 * 9) Daphnaie (Greek) – Laurel tree nymph
 * 10) Datsue-ba (Japanese) – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
 * 11) Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
 * 12) Ded Moroz (Russia) – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
 * 13) Deer Woman (Native American) – Human-deer hybrid
 * 14) Deity (Global) – Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
 * 15) Demigod (Global) – Half human, half god
 * 16) Dhampir (Balkans) – Human/vampire hybrid
 * 17) Diao Si Gui (Chinese) – Hanged ghost
 * 18) Dilong (Chinese) – Earth dragon
 * 19) Dip (Catalan) – Demonic and vampiric dog
 * 20) Di Penates (Roman) – House spirit
 * 21) Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) – Extremely venomous snake
 * 22) Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) – Goanna spirit
 * 23) Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) – Little people and nature spirits
 * 24) Diwata (Philippine) – Tree spirit
 * 25) Djall (Albanian) – Devil
 * 26) Dobhar-chu (Irish) – King otter
 * 27) Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) – Little people
 * 28) Dokkaebi (Korean) – Grotesque, horned humanoids
 * 29) Dökkálfar (Norse) – Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
 * 30) Dola (Slavic) – Tutelary and fate spirit
 * 31) Domovoi (Slavic) – House spirit
 * 32) Doppelgänger (German) – Ghostly double
 * 33) Drac (Catalan) – Lion or bull-faced dragon
 * 34) Drac (French) – Winged sea serpent
 * 35) Drakon (Greek) – Greek dragons
 * 36) Drakaina (Greek) – Dragons depicted with female characteristics
 * 37) Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) – Fire-breathing and (normally) winged reptiles
 * 38) Dragon turtle (Chinese) – Giant turtle with dragon-like head
 * 39) Drangue (Albanian) – Semi-human winged warriors
 * 40) Draugr (Norse) – Undead
 * 41) Drekavac (Slavic) – Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
 * 42) Drop Bear (Australian) – Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
 * 43) Drow (Scottish) – Cavern spirit
 * 44) Drude (German) – Possessing demon
 * 45) Druk (Bhutanese) – Dragon
 * 46) Dryad (Greek) – Tree nymph
 * 47) Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) – Little people and forest spirits
 * 48) Duergar (English) – Malevolent little people
 * 49) Dullahan (Irish) – Headless death spirit
 * 50) Duwende (Philippine) – Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
 * 51) Dvergr (Norse) – Subterranean little people smiths
 * 52) Dvorovoi (Slavic) – Courtyard spirit
 * 53) Dwarf (Germanic) – Little people nature spirits
 * 54) Dybbuk (Jewish) – Spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
 * 55) Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
 * 56) Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) – Child-eating hag