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Jaclalope: An animal with the body of a jackrabbit and the horns of a deer or antelope

Jack in Irons: A malevolent giant adorned with the heads of his victims on chains, while carrying a spiked club. He is said to wonder the lone and dark roads.  

Jaculus: A small dragon like creature.

Jasy Jatere: A small nature spirit that appears as little boy with blond hair, always carrying a magical staff. People consider him as a boogieman, but he is guardian of the yerba mate plant.       

Jenglot: Appearing as shriveled little people, they are vampiric in nature. 

Jersey Devil: Said to be the 13^th child of Mother Leeds, when it was born deformed with the head of a horse, the wings of a bat, the tail of a serpent and hoofed feet. It is sighted in the Jersey Pine Barens. 

Jentil: Giants known for building megalith monuments.   

Jenny Greenteath: A river hag, known to drown young children victims in the river. 

Jian: A bird with one eye and one wing. It must find a mate to ensure its survival.

Jiangshi: A reanimated corpse from Chinese legend. They are known as the hoping vampire, but more like a zombie with their arms stretched out. These monsters are known to drain their victim’s life force.

Jimmy Squarefoot: This enity takes on the apperance of  a lare pig, standing on his hind legs. But his is harmless and misunderstood.       

Jogah: Faerie like beings from the Iroqois people.

Joro-Gumo: A seductive female youkai with spider like characteristics. In order to ensnare her victims, she must seduce men into having sex with them and then wraps them in her webs.

Jormugandr: An enormous sea serpent from Viking legend.

Jiufeng: A nine headed bird worshiped by the ancient Chinese. 

Jinn: In Islamic folklore, the jinn are said to be spirit  made from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay. Like human beings, the jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent. Many Jinns tend to have unnatural body parts such as bat wings, goat feet, lizard tails, scaled hands or cat eyes. 

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Ibong Adarna: A fantastical bird that can change its plumage from different colors when it finishes its song.

Icthyocentaurs: An aquatic version to the centaur. With the head, arms and torso of a human, the front leg and body of a horse ending with a dorsal fin of a dolphin.

Ichneumon: Considered to be the enemy of dragons. It can hide itself from a dragon by covering itself in mud, waiting for it to attack a dragon.   

Ijiraq: The Inuit people of the boogeyman. These monstrous beings appear as half human and half caribou. They are known to kidnap wayward children when they are lost in the wilderness.  

Ikuchui: An enormous sea creature that was sighted in Japan during the Edo Period.

Imp: A small demon that causes lots of mischief.

Incubus: A male demon that seduces young women in there sleep, ether to create a hybrid offspring or drain their energy.

Indus Worm: A gigantic carnivorous worm that is said to live in the Indus River.

Inu-gami: A vengeful spirit that takes the form of a dog.

Inkanyamba: A large serpent with the head of a horse, rumored to live at the base of Howick Falls in South Africa. Mostly active in the summer months and blamed form the cause of seasonal storms, if angered.

Ippon Datara: A yokai with a single eye, two arms and goes around by hoping on its one leg. They enjoy frighten humans when their in a good mood, but are not at all dangerous.

Ishigaq: The little people from Inuit culture.  

Isonade: An enmourmus shark like sea creature that lives off the coast of Matsuura.  

Ittan-momen: A youkai that appears as a strip of white clothe. They attack mortals by suffocating them to death.

Ieimakids: Meadow nymphs

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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.