List of legendary creatures (K)




 * 1) Kabouter (Dutch) – Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
 * 2) Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) – Nature spirit
 * 3) Kahaku (Japanese) – Little people and water spirits
 * 4) Kajsa (Scandinavian) – Wind spirit
 * 5) Kalakeyas (Hindu) – Descendants of Kala
 * 6) Kallikantzaroi (Greek) – Grotesque, malevolent spirit
 * 7) Kamaitachi (Japanese) – Wind spirit
 * 8) Kamatayan (Philippine) – Philippine counterpart of Death
 * 9) Kami (Japanese) – Nature spirit
 * 10) Kamikiri (Japanese) – Hair-cutting spirit
 * 11) Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) – Bathroom spirit
 * 12) Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
 * 13) Kanbo (Japanese) – Drought spirit
 * 14) Kanedama (Japanese) – Money spirit
 * 15) Kappa (Japanese) – Little people and water spirit
 * 16) Kapre (Philippine) – Malevolent tree spirit
 * 17) Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
 * 18) Karakura (Turkish) – Male night-demon
 * 19) Karasu-tengu (Japanese) – Tengu with a bird's bill
 * 20) Karkadann (Persian) – One-horned giant animal
 * 21) Karkinos (Greek) – Giant crab
 * 22) Karura (Japanese) – Eagle-human hybrid
 * 23) Karzełek (Polish) – Little people and mine spirits
 * 24) Kasa-obake (Japanese) – Animated parasol
 * 25) Kasha (Japanese) – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
 * 26) Kashanbo (Japanese) – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
 * 27) Katawa-guruma (Japanese) – Woman riding on a flaming wheel
 * 28) Katsura-otoko (Japanese) – Handsome man from the Moon
 * 29) Katallan (Albanian) – Man-eating giant
 * 30) Kaukas (Lithuanian) – Nature spirit
 * 31) Kawa-uso (Japanese) – Supernatural river otter
 * 32) Kawa-zaru (Japanese) – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
 * 33) Kayeri (Cuiva) - Mushroom-like monster
 * 34) Ke'lets (Chukchi mythology) – Ogre or evil spirit
 * 35) Keelut (Inuit) – Hairless dog
 * 36) Kee-wakw (Abenaki) – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
 * 37) Kekkai (Japanese) – Amorphous afterbirth spirit
 * 38) Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) – Malevolent water horse
 * 39) Ker (Greek) – Female death spirit
 * 40) Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) – Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
 * 41) Keukegen (Japanese) – Disease spirit
 * 42) Keythong (Heraldic) – Wingless griffin
 * 43) Khalkotauroi (Greek) – Bronze-hoofed bulls
 * 44) Khyah (Nepalese) – Fat, hairy ape-like creature
 * 45) Kigatilik (Inuit) – Night-demon
 * 46) Kholomodumo (Sotho) – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
 * 47) Kijimunaa (Japanese) – Tree sprite from Okinawa
 * 48) Kijo (Japanese) – She-devil
 * 49) Kikimora (Slavic) – Female house spirit
 * 50) Killmoulis (English and Scottish) – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
 * 51) Kinnara (Hindu) – Human-bird hybrid
 * 52) Kin-u (Japanese) – Bird
 * 53) Kirin (Japanese) – Japanese Unicorn
 * 54) Kishi (Angola) – Malevolent, two-faced seducer
 * 55) Kitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit
 * 56) Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) – Person possessed by a fox spirit
 * 57) Kiyohime (Japanese) – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love
 * 58) Klabautermann (German) – Ship spirit
 * 59) Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
 * 60) Knucker (English) – Water dragon
 * 61) Kobalos (Greek) – Goblin like thieves and tricksters
 * 62) Kobold (German) – Little people and mine or house spirits
 * 63) Kodama (Japanese) – Tree spirit
 * 64) Kofewalt (Germanic) – House spirit
 * 65) Ko-gok (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
 * 66) Kokakuchō (Japanese) – Ubume bird
 * 67) Komainu (Japanese) – Protective animal
 * 68) Konaki-jiji (Japanese) – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
 * 69) Konoha-tengu (Japanese) – Bird-like creature
 * 70) Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) – Little people
 * 71) Korrigan (Breton) – Little people and nature spirits
 * 72) Kraken (Scandinavian) – Sea monster
 * 73) Krasnoludek (Slavic) – Little people nature spirits
 * 74) Krasue (Southeast Asian) – Vampiric, floating head
 * 75) Krampus (Germany) – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
 * 76) Kting Voar (Southeast Asian) – Snake eating cattle
 * 77) Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) – Forest spirit
 * 78) Kubikajiri (Japanese) – Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
 * 79) Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) – Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
 * 80) Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) – Miniature fox spirit
 * 81) Kudan (Japanese) – Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity before dying
 * 82) Kui (Chinese) – One-legged monster
 * 83) Kukudhi (Albanian) – Female demon who spreads sickness
 * 84) Kukwes (Mi'kmaq) – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
 * 85) Kulshedra (Albanian) – Drought-causing dragon
 * 86) Kumakatok (Philippine) – Death spirits
 * 87) Kumiho (Korean) – Fox spirit
 * 88) Kun (Chinese) – Giant fish
 * 89) Kupua (Hawaiian) – Shapeshifting tricksters
 * 90) Kurabokko (Japanese) – Guardian spirit of a warehouse
 * 91) Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) – Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
 * 92) Kurma (Hindu mythology) – Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
 * 93) Kurupi (Guaraní) – Wild man and fertility spirit
 * 94) Kushtaka (Tlingit) – Shapeshifting "land otter man"
 * 95) Kye-ryong (Korean) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
 * 96) Kyourinrin (Japanese) – Animated scroll or paper
 * 97) Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) – Nine-tailed fox
 * 98) Kyūketsuki (Japanese) – Vampire king