List of legendary creatures (Y)




 * 1) Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster
 * 2) Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet
 * 3) Yadōkai (Japanese) – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
 * 4) Yagyō-san (Japanese) – Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
 * 5) Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Male nature spirit
 * 6) Yakshi (Keralite) – Vampire
 * 7) Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Female nature spirit
 * 8) Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) – Disease and misfortune spirit
 * 9) Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) – Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
 * 10) Yali (Hinduism) – Lion like creature often symbolic for protecting temples
 * 11) Yallery-Brown (English) – Nature spirit
 * 12) Yama (China, Korea, Japan, Buddhism, including Tibet) – Wrathful god
 * 13) Yama-biko (Japanese) – Echo spirit
 * 14) Yama-bito (Japanese) – Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
 * 15) Yama-chichi (Japanese) – Monkey-like mountain spirit
 * 16) Yama-inu (Japanese) – Dog-like mountain spirit
 * 17) Yama-otoko (Japanese) – Mountain giant
 * 18) Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) – Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
 * 19) Yama-uba (Japanese) – Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
 * 20) Yama-waro (Japanese) – Hairy, one-eyed spirit
 * 21) Yanari (Japanese) – Spirit which causes strange noises
 * 22) Yaoguai (Chinese) – Animalistic demon or fallen gods
 * 23) Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) – Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
 * 24) Yatagarasu (Japanese) – Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
 * 25) Yato-no-kami (Japanese) – Serpent spirits
 * 26) Yeth hound (English) – Headless dog
 * 27) Yeti (Himalayan) – Mountain bigfoot
 * 28) Yilbegän (Turkic) – Either a dragon or a giant
 * 29) Yobuko (Japanese) – Mountain dwelling spirit
 * 30) Yōkai (Japanese) – Supernatural monster
 * 31) Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) – Underworld hag
 * 32) Yong – Korean dragon
 * 33) Yōsei (Japanese) – Fairy
 * 34) Yosuzume (Japanese) – Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
 * 35) You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) – Wandering ghost
 * 36) Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) – Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
 * 37) Ypotryll (Heraldic) – Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
 * 38) Yuan Gui (Chinese) – Distressed ghost
 * 39) Yukinko (Japanese) – Childlike snow spirit
 * 40) Yuki-onna (Japanese) – Female snow spirit
 * 41) Yūrei (Japanese) – Ghost
 * 42) Yuxa (Tatar) – 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human