Magical creature

Magical creature, magical beast, or magical animal may refer to:

Religion, mythology, and folklore

 * Legendary creature, a mythological or folkloric creature
 * Anthropomorphic animal, a non-human animal attributed to human traits, emotions and intentions
 * Cryptid, a creature whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely
 * Monster, a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order
 * Mythological hybrid, a creature composed of parts from different animals
 * Human–animal hybrid, an entity that incorporates elements from both humans and animals
 * Talking animal, a non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language
 * Therianthrope, a human being who metamorphoses into another animal by means of shapeshifting
 * Animals in religion
 * Animal deity, a deity represented in the form of an animal
 * Animal spirit, the spirit of an animal
 * Familiar spirit, a supernatural entity believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic
 * Power animal, a broadly animistic and shamanic concept
 * Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
 * Vahana, a being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle
 * Zoomorph, a being represented in the form of an animal

Fiction

 * Book of Imaginary Beings, a 1957 book by Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero
 * A Book of Magical Beasts, a 1970 book by Ruth Manning-Sanders
 * Magical creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia
 * Magical creatures in Harry Potter
 * Talking animals in fiction