La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
La chusa (Spanish) - Death spirit
Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes
around the world
La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm (possibly a dragon)
Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
Lammasu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged
bull or lion with a human head
La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
Lampades (Greek) - Underworld nymph
Landvættir (Norse) - Nature spirits
Lares (Roman) - House spirit
La Sayona (Venezuela) - Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
La Tunda (Colombian) - Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
Lauku dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
Lenanshee (Celtic) - Fairy lover
Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) - Tiny animal poisonous to lions
Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
Leuce (Greek) - White poplar tree nymph
Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster
Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of
lightning strikes
Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
Lilin (Jewish) - Night-demoness
Lilitu (Assyrian) - Winged demon
Limnades (Greek) - Lake nymph
Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
Lizardman (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Lóng - Chinese dragon
Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
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