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Anaye - (Navajo) various monsters that take the forms of animals, living objects and other things. Derived from a time where men and women bet on who would last the longest without the other sex and the women pleasuring themselves with whatever random things they thought would do the job, which caused their chosen toys to father them monstrous ...
Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster; Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet; Yadōkai – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit; Yagyō-san – Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse; Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) – Male nature spirit
Amemasu – Lake monster. Ammit (Ancient Egyptian) – Female demon who was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile and devoured the souls of the wicked. Amorōnagu – Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima. Amphiptere – Winged serpent. Amphisbaena – Serpent with a head at each end. Anak – Giant.
Re’em – Gigantic land animal; Reichsadler – Eagle, sometimes depicted with two heads; Rephaite – Giant; Reptilian humanoid (Global) – Human-lizard hybrid; Revenant (Worldwide) – Reanimated dead; Roc (Arabian and Persian) – Gigantic bird; Rokurokubi – Long-necked, humanoid trickster
Gancanagh – Male fairy that seduces human women; Gandabherunda – Double-headed bird; Gandharva – Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal; Gargouille – Water dragon; Garkain (Australian Aboriginal) – Flying humanoid who envelops his victims; Garmr – Giant, ravenous hound
Matagot (French mythology) – Spirit that takes animal form; usually that of a black cat; Matsya (Hindu mythology) – First Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a half-fish and half-man; Mayura (Hindu mythology) – Peacock spirit; Mazzikin (Jewish mythology) – Invisible, malevolent spirit; Mbói Tu'ĩ (Guaraní mythology) – Snake-parrot hybrid
Lamia – Child-devouring monster with an upper body of a woman and a tail of a snake; Lamiak – Water spirit with duck-like feet; La Mojana – Shapeshifting, female water spirit; Lampades – Underworld nymph; Landvættir – Nature spirits; Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
Pontianak – Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth; Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat; Popobawa – One-eyed creatures bat-like; Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology) – Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake; Pouākai – Giant bird