List of legendary creatures (L)




 * 1) La-bar-tu (Assyrian) – Disease demon
 * 2) Labbu (Akkadian) – Sea snake
 * 3) Lady midday (Slavic) – Sunstroke spirit
 * 4) Ladon (Greek) – Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
 * 5) Laelaps (Greek) – Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
 * 6) Laestrygonians (Greek) – Anthropophagic giants
 * 7) Lakanica (Slavic) – Field spirit
 * 8) Lake monster (Worldwide) – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world
 * 9) Lakhey (Nepalese) – Demon with fangs
 * 10) La Llorona (Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning
 * 11) Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
 * 12) Lambton Worm (English) – Giant worm
 * 13) Lamia (Greek) – Child-devouring monster
 * 14) Lamiak (Basque) – Water spirit with duck-like feet
 * 15) La Mojana (Colombian) – Shapeshifting, female water spirit
 * 16) Lampades (Greek) – Underworld nymph
 * 17) Landvættir (Norse) – Nature spirits
 * 18) Langmeidong  (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
 * 19) Lares (Roman) – House spirit
 * 20) La Sayona (Venezuela) – Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
 * 21) La Tunda (Colombian) – Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
 * 22) Lava bear – Miniature bear thought to inhabit the lava beds of south central Oregon
 * 23) Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) – Field spirit
 * 24) Lauma (Baltic) – Sky spirit
 * 25) Lavellan (Scottish) – Gigantic water rat
 * 26) Leanan sidhe (Celtic) – Fairy lover
 * 27) Leanashe (Irish) – Possessing spirit or vampire
 * 28) Leimakids (Greek) – Meadow nymph
 * 29) Leokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed lion
 * 30) Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) – Tiny animal poisonous to lions
 * 31) Leprechaun (Irish) – Cobbler spirit
 * 32) Leszi (Slavic) – Tree spirit
 * 33) Leuce (Greek) – White poplar tree nymph
 * 34) Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) – Crocotta-lion hybrid
 * 35) Leviathan (Jewish) – Sea monster seen in Job 41
 * 36) Leyak (Balinese) – Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
 * 37) Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-horse hybrid
 * 38) Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-goat hybrid
 * 39) Lidérc (Hungary) – Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
 * 40) Lietuvēns (Latvia) - Soul of a murdered person
 * 41) Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) – Magical bird found at sites of lightning strikes
 * 42) Likho (Slavic) – One-eyed hag or goblin
 * 43) Lilin (Jewish) – Night-demoness
 * 44) Lilitu (Assyrian) – Winged demon
 * 45) Limnades (Greek) – Lake nymph
 * 46) Lindworm (Germanic) – Dragon
 * 47) Ljósálfar (Norse) – Sunlight spirits; the Light Elves
 * 48) Ljubi (Albanian) – Demoness
 * 49) Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) – Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
 * 50) Loch Ness Monster (Scottish) – Serpentine sea monster
 * 51) Loki (Norse mythology) – God of night
 * 52) Lo-lol (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
 * 53) Lóng – Chinese dragon
 * 54) Long Ma (Chinese) – Dragon-horse hybrid
 * 55) Loogaroo (French America) – Shapeshifting, female vampire
 * 56) Lou Carcolh (French) – Snake-mollusk hybrid
 * 57) Loup-garou (French) – Werewolf
 * 58) Loveland frog (American Folklore) (Ohio) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
 * 59) Lubber fiend (English) – House spirit
 * 60) Luduan (Chinese) – Truth-detecting animal
 * 61) Lugat (Albanian) – Vampire
 * 62) Lui-kong-tsiau (Taiwanese) – Thunderbird
 * 63) Luison (Guaraní) – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog
 * 64) Lusca – Sea Monster
 * 65) Lutin (French) – Amusing goblin
 * 66) Lyngbakr
 * 67) Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline guide spirit