List of legendary creatures (P)

A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois. Wings were not present in the original painting.

1. Paasselkä devils (Finnish) – Spectral fire
2. Pakhangba (Meitei mythology and Sanamahism) – Serpentine dragon, ruler of the universe
3. Pamola (Abenaki) – Weather spirit
4. Panes (Greek) – Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
5. Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) – White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes
6. Panis (Hindu) – Demons with herds of stolen cows
7. Panlong (Chinese) – Water dragon
8. Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid with gigantic ears
9. Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline with sweet breath
10. Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
11. Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) – Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
12. Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed leopard
13. Patagon (Medieval folklore) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
14. Patasola (Latin America) – Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
15. Patupairehe (Māori) – White-skinned nature spirits
16. Pech (Scottish) – Strong little people
17. Pegaeae (Greek) – Spring nymph
18. Pegasus (Greek) – Winged horse
19. Pegacorn – Pegasus-unicorn hybrid
20. Pelesit (Malay) – Servant spirit
21. Peluda (French) – Dragon
22. Penanggalan (Malay) – Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
23. Peng (Chinese) – Giant bird
24. Penghou (Chinese) – Tree spirit
25. Peri (Persian) – Winged humanoid
26. Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) – Deer-bird hybrid
27. Pesanta (Catalan) – Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
28. Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) – Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
29. Phi Tai Hong (Thai) – Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death
30. Phoenix (Phoenician) – Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes
31. Piasa (Native American mythology) – Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
32. Piatek (Armenian) – Large land animal
33. Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) – Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
34. Pillan (Mapuche) – Nature spirit
35. Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) – Water spirit
36. Piru (Finnish) – Minor demon
37. Pishacha (Hindu) – Carrion-eating demon
38. Pishtaco (Peru) – Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes
39. Pita-skog (Abenaki) – Serpentine rain spirit
40. Pixie (Cornish) – Little people and nature spirits
41. Pixiu (Chinese) – Winged lion
42. Pi yao (Chinese) – Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
43. Plakavac (Slavic) – Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
44. Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) – Tree spirit
45. Polevik (Polish) – Little people and field spirits
46. Pollo Maligno (Colombian) – Man-eating chicken spirit
47. Polong (Malay) – Invisible servant spirit
48. Poltergeist (German) – Ghost that moves objects
49. Pombero (Guaraní) – Wild man and nature spirit
50. Ponaturi (Māori) – Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
51. Pontianak (Malay) – Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
52. Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat
53. Popobawa (Africa) – One-eyed creatures bat-like
54. Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology) – Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake
55. Pouākai (Māori) – Giant bird
56. Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain) – Ghosts of especially greedy people
57. Pricolici (Romanian – Roman) – Undead wolf
58. Psoglav (Serbia) – Dog-headed monster
59. Psotnik (Slavic) – Mischievous spirit
60. Psychai (Greek) – Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
61. Psychopomp (Greek) – Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife
62. Púca (Welsh) – Shapeshifting animal spirit
63. Púki (Icelandic) – Malevolent little person
64. Puck (English) – House spirit
65. Putz (German) – House spirit
66. Pugot (Philippine) – Headless humanoid
67. Puk (Frisian) – House spirit
68. Pūķis (Latvian) – Dragon
69. Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) – Troll-like gray-skinned being
70. Pygmy (Greek) – Little people
71. Pyrausta (Greek) – Insect-dragon hybrid
72. Python (Greek) – Serpentine dragon