Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as
house spirits
Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
Kage-onna (Japanese) - Shadow of a woman cast on the paper doors of a haunted
house
Kahaku (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
Kalakeyas (Hindu) - Descendents of Kala
Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Kamikiri (Japanese) - Hair-cutting spirit
Kanbari-nyudo (Japanese) - Bathroom spirit
Kanbo (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Kanedama (Japanese) - Money spirit
Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kapre (Philippine) - Malevolent tree spirit
Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish) - Troublesome spirit
Karakura (Turkish) - Male night-demon
Karasu-tengu (Japanese) - Tengu with a bird's bill
Karkadann (Persian) - One-horned giant animal
Karkinos (Greek) - Giant crab
Karura (Japanese) - Eagle-human hybrid
Karzelek (Polish) - Little people and mine spirits
Kasa-obake (Japanese) - Animated parasol
Kasha (Japanese) - Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away
corpses
Kashanbo (Japanese) - Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
Katawa-guruma (Japanese) - Woman riding on a flaming wheel
Katsura-otoko (Japanese) - Handsome man from the moon
Kaukas (Lithuanian) - Nature spirit
Kawa-akago (Japanese) - Infant monster that lurks near rivers and drowns people
Kawa-uso (Japanese) - Supernatural river otter
Kawa-zaru (Japanese) - Smelly, cowardly water spirit
Keelut (Inuit) - Hairless dog
Kee-wakw (Abenaki) - Anthropophagous giant
Kekkai (Japanese) - Amorphous afterbirth spirit
Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Kerakera-onna (Japanese) - Giant, cackling woman who appears in the sky
Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
Kishi (Angola) - Malevolent, two-faced seducer
Kitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) - Person possessed by a fox spirit
Kiyohime (Japanese) - Woman who transformed into a serpent-demon out of the rage
of unrequited love
Klabautermann (German) - Ship spirit
Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Knucker (English) - Water dragon
Kobalos (Greek) - Shape-shifting thieves and tricksters
Kobold (German) - Little people and mine or house spirits
Kodama (Japanese) - Tree spirit
Kofewalt (Germanic) - House spirit
Ko-gok (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Kokakucho (Japanese) - Ubume bird
Koma-inu (Japanese) - Protective animal
Konaki-Jijii (Japanese) - Infant that cries until it is picked up, then
increases its weight and crushes its victim
Kongamoto (Congo) - Flying creature
Konoha-tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) - Little people
Korrigan (Breton) - Little people and nature spirits
Kosode-no-te (Japanese) - Short-sleeved kimono with its own hands
Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Headless ghost
Kuchisake-Onna (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) - Miniature fox spirit
Kudan (Japanese) - Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity and then dies
Kui (Chinese) - One-legged monster
Kulshedra (Albanian) - Drought-causing dragon
Kumakatok (Philippine) - Death spirits
Kumiho (Korean) - Fox spirit
Kun (Chinese) - Giant fish
Kupua (Hawaiian) - Shapeshifting tricksters
Kurabokko (Japanese) - Guardian spirit of a warehouse
Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) - Jellyfish which floats through the air as a
fireball
Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyokotsu (Japanese) - Ghost of a corpse discarded in a well
Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
Kyubi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
Kyuketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
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