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Hadhayosh: A land creature from ancient Persian Mythology. It shares similarity to an ox, but with six horns, brass skin and a flaming mane. Despite their massice size and increible power, the Hahayosh's behavior is ver much similar to the common ox.

Hag: Malevolent witch like beings that are depicted in fairy tales.

Haietlik: Commonly known as the lighting snake, is a water serpent of Nootka legend. Their diet is usually orca whales.

Haku-taku: A bull like yokai with six horns and nine eyes. Although this youkai appears terrifying, it is a wise and holy beast.

Hakuturi: Guardians of the forest in Maori legend.

Haltija: Spirit beings of Finnish folklore. They are known to occupy many place of nature, such as forests, rivers and homes.

Hamadryad: Oka tree nymphs

Hantu Air: Water spirits found in Malay culture, they are for causing downing and missing people. 

Hantu Demons: demonic spirits of Malaysian culture, they are known possess humans and cause other misfortunes.

Hannya: Formally a human woman now transformed into demons. They eat babies and torments young men.

Hari-Onago: A female youkai with barded hair, which she uses to attack her victims.

Harpy: Female monsters with the body of a bird and a human face. They are known to steal food from their victims while they are eating and carry evildoers to the Underworld.

Hekatonkheires: A race of giants with a hundred hands and fifty heads.

Hercinia: A fantastical bird with glowing feathers that helps lost travelers through dark forests.

Hibagon: An ape like humanoid that is sighted in Japan.

Hiderigami: Spirits that are responsible for brining drought

Hogboons

Guardians of the old burial mounds of Orkney. Although they appear as ugly little men, they must be treated with respect. By giving them an offering of fresh baked bread and milk or ale, which must be poured over the mound, so they bring good fortune to the farm. But if angered or ignored, they will cause trouble on the farm.

Hobgoblins: A distant relative to the common goblin.  Unlike there malicious cousins, they are civilized and enjoy playing harmless practical jokes on mortals.

Hitotsume-kozo

In form this specter is a child of ten years or so, usually a bald-headed young Buddhist monk, but its face is dominated by its one huge eye. The

hitotsume-kozo enjoys using its monstrous attributes to surprise and frighten people, and loves sassing the humans it meets, telling them to "be quiet!"

Hippogriff

A Hippogriff is a chimeric legendary creature, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a horse, specifically a male griffin and a mare (female horse). They are proud creatures, and if anyone who whishes to ride on it's back must first bown respectly. 

Hitodama: Believed to be the souls of the dead, they appear as balls of spectral fire.

Hippocampus

A mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology. They were depicted as hybrid creatures with the head and foreparts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish. In mosaic art they were often covered with green scales and had fish-fin manes and appendages.

Hodag: A chimera with the head of a frog, thick short legs, the spinal back of a dinosaur and long tail with a spear at the end.  

Hombre Caiman: A shape shifting race of were alligators that were once fish men that were cursed by the spirit of the Magdalena River.

Hombre Gato: Werecats of Argentina.

Homunculus: A race of artificial diminutive beings created by Alchemists.  

Hulda: Female faeries from Scandinavian folklore. They appear as alluring young women, but on their backs are hollow and have cow tails. 

Hydra: A water serpent with multiple heads, and can grown a new one when it’s head as been loped off. 

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Galley Beggars: Known to inhabit ancient burial sites. This entity is known to frighten it’s victim by removing it’s head.

Gargoyles: Stone demon like creatures that guard building from any dark spirit.

Gamayun: A bird with the face a beautiful woman with the ability to see the future.

Gandharvas: Male nature spirits, that are usually depicted with animal parts. They are the male counterparts of the Apsaras and are skilled in music. 

Gargouille: A dragon like creature found in France, with 4 legs, wings and a serpent like body. Their are a water-spouting dragon and are known to terrorize people on boats.

Garuda: Human/bird hybrid, he is the steed to Vishnu and eater of serpents. Symbol of strength and valor.

Gancanagth: A seductive male faery, known to seduce mortal woman and eventual the woman will die.

Gashadokuro

A gigantic skeleton, which were formed from the bones of people who died of starvation. They prey on humans by biting off their head and drink their blood.

Gaueko

A spirit that takes the form of anthropomorphic dog. They are in charge of not letting humans walk after dark and punish those who would have the courage to step outside the darkness.

Gegeness: A race of six armed giants that known to inhabit the island of Doliones.

German: Spirits that bring rain and hail. If they are asked for help, they will bestow rain and the help the crops grow. But can bring downpours and droughts.

Geryon: A three headed, six armed, and six legged giant. Who owns a double headed hound and heard of cattle. He was eventually defeated by Heracles.

Ghouls

Found in Middle Eastern folklore, these undead creatures have been known to lurk in graveyards. They have an appetite for human flesh, both dead and alive. There also known to shape shift into scavenger animals. 

Ghillie Dhu : A guardian birch tree spirit from Scottish folklore. They are seen a shy and misanthropic, but are kind to children.   

Gigelorum: Said to be the smallest creature, they are known to live inside the ear of a mite.

Girtablilu: A centaur version scorpions, they are the bodyguards of Shamash, the god of the sun, and gatekeepers to The Realm of Darkness.

Griffin: The griffin has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Seen as guardians of secretly buried wealth, the griffin evolved from a ferocious animal of antiquity to become a symbol of strength and valor.

Gryla: An ogress form Iceland that has been known to kidnap naughty children on Christmas Eve. She is the mother of the Yule lads and the owner to the Yule cat.

Green Man: Male gaurdians of the forests. Usualy depicted with having a beared face made from leaves.

Ghosts

Ghosts are shadows of the deceased person’s life. Many reasons explain about why ghosts are bound to Earth, because of unfinished business in life, they weren’t properly buried, seeking revenge, or concerned for their loved ones. 

Genius: Invisible spirits, that guide and watch over a person’s life.

Gnomes

Depicted as very small people, often men that live in dark places, especially underground, in the depths of forests, or more recently in gardens. They are some times helping with plants and animals, some helping the household chores. While others are reclusive and prefer to stay underground or in dark forests, perhaps hoarding treasure, and others interacting mischievously or even harmfully with humans. 

Goblin: Goblins are wicked little creatures from Germanic and British Folklore, often believed to be the evil or merely mischievous opposite of the more benevolent faeries and sprits of lore.  Despite local variations, goblins have almost universally been described as troublemakers. They are either simply tricksters or mischievous, like immature children, or actually malevolent, evildoers, dangerous to human beings.

Gorgades: A race of hairy humanoids

Gremlins

A gremlin is an English folkloric creature, commonly depicted as mischievous and mechanically oriented, with a specific interest in aircraft. Legends concerning gremlins arose from airmen who claimed that failures in their craft were due to sabotage by gremlins.

Gorgon

In Greek Mythology, the Gorgons were three vicious female mythical creatures that lived on an island and possessed the ability to turn a person to stone by looking at them. They possessed both beautiful and hideous traits, the most famous being their head of coiled snakes instead of hair. Of the three, Medusa is perhaps the most famous of the Gorgons, being the only one of the three who was mortal. She, like many such creatures, met her doom at the hands of the hero Percus aided by the Gods.

Golem: Beings created from clay and are brought to life by magicians to do their bidding.

Giants

A race of human like creatures, known for their enormous size. Found in different folktales from around the world. They can be good or bad, wise or stupid.

Glaistig

A female water fae with the legs of a goat and clad in a green dress. She has been known for their two natures. She can seduce men and drink their blood, or help with children, the elderly or heading cattle.

Gragedd Annwn

Welsh water faeries.  If a mortal man take these faeries as their brides, their offspring will grown up to become famous physicians, doctors and even world leaders.

Grindylow: Malevolent water dwelling goblins, that are known to grab unsuspecting victims when they are close to the water’s edge. 

Gwyllions: Misanthropic mountain faeries from Welsh folklore. They are known to frighten travelers or mislead them. But if treated with kindness, they will not harm them.

Gui Po: A spirit that takes the form of a friendly old woman. They work in the households of rich families and retuned to those who help around the house.

Gui Shu: A rather mischievous tree spirit that are known to cause travels to become lost.

Gulon: Usually described about the size of a dog, the head and claws of a cat, a thick coat of fur, and the tail of a fox. It is a gluttonous creature for it’s strange eating habits after killing it’s victims.

Gurumapa: A child devouring demon from Hindu mythology.