List of legendary creatures (S)




 * 1) Saci (Brazilian) – One-legged nature spirit
 * 2) Sack Man (Worldwide)
 * 3) Sagari (Japanese) – Horse head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
 * 4) Sakabashira (Japanese) – Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
 * 5) Salamander (Alchemy) – Fire elemental
 * 6) Samebito (Japanese) – Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea
 * 7) Samodiva (Slavic) – Nature spirit
 * 8) Sampati (Hindu) – The demigod Jatayu's brother
 * 9) Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children
 * 10) Sango (South Western Nigeria) – Yoruba king of arts, music, dance and entertainment
 * 11) Santelmo (Philippine) –  Spirits in the form of fireballs that roam around the forest
 * 12) Santa Claus (North Pole-European folklore) – Elderly man who delivers gifts to well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve
 * 13) Sânziană (Romanian) – Nature spirit
 * 14) Sarimanok (Philippine) – Bird of good fortune
 * 15) Sarngika (Hindu) – Bird spirit
 * 16) Sarugami (Japanese) – Wicked monkey spirit who was defeated by a dog
 * 17) Satori (Japanese) – Mind-reading humanoid
 * 18) Satan (Heaven-Abrahamic mythology) – Ruler of Hell
 * 19) Satyr (Greek) – Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
 * 20) Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
 * 21) Sazae-oni (Japanese) – Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
 * 22) Sceadugenga (English) – Shapeshifting undead
 * 23) Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake which mesmerizes its prey
 * 24) Scorpion Man (Sumerian) – Human-scorpion hybrid
 * 25) Scylla (Greek) – Human-snake hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve legs, and six long-necked snake heads
 * 26) Sea-bee (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed bee
 * 27) Sea-lion
 * 28) Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid
 * 29) Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals
 * 30) Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster
 * 31) Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed wyvern
 * 32) Seko (Japanese) – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
 * 33) Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) – Human-seal shapeshifter
 * 34) Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) – Human-faced frog which guides newly deceased souls to the graveyard
 * 35) Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake with corrosive venom
 * 36) Serpent (Worldwide) – Snake spirit
 * 37) Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) – Serpent-leopard hybrid
 * 38) Shachihoko (Japanese) – Tiger-carp hybrid
 * 39) Shade (Worldwide) – Spiritual imprint
 * 40) Shadow People (American) – Malevolent ghost
 * 41) Shahbaz (Persian) – Giant eagle or hawk
 * 42) Shaitan (Islam) – Islamic version of the Devil (Satan) from the Bible
 * 43) Shang-Yang (Chinese) – Rain bird
 * 44) Shedim (Jewish) – Chicken-legged demon
 * 45) Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
 * 46) Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) – Water spirit
 * 47) Shen (Chinese) – Shapeshifing sea monster
 * 48) Shenlong (Chinese) – Weather dragon
 * 49) Shibaten (Japanese) – Water spirit from Shikoku
 * 50) Shikigami (Japanese) – Servant spirit
 * 51) Shiki-ōji (Japanese) – Child-sized servant spirit
 * 52) Shikome (Japanese) – Underworld hag
 * 53) Shinigami (Japanese) – "Death god"
 * 54) Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) – White, faceless spirit
 * 55) Shirouneri (Japanese) – Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
 * 56) Shiryō (Japanese) – Spirit of a dead person
 * 57) Shisa (Japanese) – Lion-dog hybrid
 * 58) Shishi (Chinese) – Protective animal
 * 59) Shōjō (Japanese) – Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
 * 60) Shōkera (Japanese) – Creature that peers in through skylights
 * 61) Shtriga (Albanian) – Vampire witch that feeds on children
 * 62) Shui Gui (Chinese) – Drowned ghost
 * 63) Shug Monkey (English) – Dog/monkey
 * 64) Shunoban (Japanese) – Red-faced ghoul
 * 65) Shuten-dōji (Japanese) – Ruler of the Oni
 * 66) Sídhe – (Irish and Scottish) – Ancestral or nature spirit
 * 67) Sigbin (Philippine) – Goat-like vampire
 * 68) Sileni (Greek) – Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
 * 69) Simargl (Slavic) – Winged dog
 * 70) Simurgh (Persian) – Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
 * 71) Singa (Batak) – Feline animal
 * 72) Sint Holo (Choctaw) – Serpentine rain spirit
 * 73) Siren (Greek) – Human-bird hybrid
 * 74) Sirin (Slavic) – Demonic human-headed bird
 * 75) Sirrush (Akkadian) – Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
 * 76) Sisiutl (American Indian) – Two-headed sea serpent
 * 77) Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) – Red-haired giants
 * 78) Sjörå (Norse) – Freshwater spirit
 * 79) Sjövættir (Norse) – Sea spirit
 * 80) Skin-walker (American Indian) – Animal-human shapeshifter
 * 81) Skogsrå (Scandinavian) – Forest spirit
 * 82) Sköll (Norse) – Wolf that chases the Sun
 * 83) Skookum (Chinook Jargon) – Hairy giant
 * 84) Skeleton (Medieval folklore) – Living skeletons
 * 85) Skrzak (Slavic) – Household spirit
 * 86) Sky Women (Polish) – Weather spirit
 * 87) Sleipnir (Norse) – Eight-legged horse
 * 88) Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) – Restless ghost
 * 89) Snow Lion (Tibetan) – Celestial animal
 * 90) Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) – Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
 * 91) Sōgenbi (Japanese) – Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
 * 92) Soragami (Japanese) – Ritual disciplinary demon
 * 93) Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) – Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
 * 94) Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) – Ghost with an abacus
 * 95) Sōtangitsune (Japanese) – Fox spirit from Kyoto
 * 96) Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) – Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
 * 97) Spearfinger (Cherokee) – Sharp-fingered hag
 * 98) Spectre (Worldwide) – Terrifying ghost
 * 99) Sphinx (Greek) – Winged woman-headed lion
 * 100) Spiriduş (Romanian) – Little people
 * 101) Spirit – Ghosts
 * 102) Spriggan (Cornish) – Guardians of graveyards and ruins
 * 103) Sprite (Medieval folklore) – little people, ghosts or elves
 * 104) Squonk (American) – Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears
 * 105) Stihi (Albanian) – Demonic dragon who guards a treasure
 * 106) Strigoi (Romanian) – Vampire
 * 107) Strix (Roman) – Vampiric bird
 * 108) Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
 * 109) Strzyga (Slavic) – Vampiric undead
 * 110) Stuhać (Slavic) – Malevolent mountain spirit
 * 111) Stymphalian Bird (Greek) – Metallic bird
 * 112) Suangi (New Guinea) – Cannibalistic sorcerer
 * 113) Succubus (Medieval folklore) – Female night-demon
 * 114) Sudice (Slavic) – Fortune spirit
 * 115) Sunakake-baba (Japanese) – Sand-throwing hag
 * 116) Sunekosuri (Japanese) – Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
 * 117) Surma (Finnish) – Hellhound
 * 118) Suzaku (Japanese) – Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird
 * 119) Svaðilfari (Norse) – Unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir
 * 120) Svartálfar (Norse) – Cavern spirits; the Black Elves
 * 121) The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) – Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
 * 122) Swan maiden (Worldwide) – Swan-human shapeshifter
 * 123) Sylph (Alchemy) – Air elemental
 * 124) Sylvan (Medieval folklore) – Forest spirit
 * 125) Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) – African giant
 * 126) Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) – Reptilian humanoid