Maa-alused (Estonian) - Subterranean spirit
Maal (Bangladesh) - Malevolent water spirit
Madremonte (Colombian) - Nature guardian
Maero (Maori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
Magog (English) - Giant protector of London
Maha-pudma (Hindu) - Giant elephant that holds up the world
Maikubi (Japanese) - Quarreling heads of three dead miscreants
Mairu (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Majas gari (Latvian) - Benevolent house spirit
Majin (Japanese) - Magical beings
Makara (Indian) - Aquatic beings
Makura-gaeshi (Japanese) - Pillow-moving spirit
Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water
spirits
Manananggal (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to
fly around
Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
Manes (Roman) - Ancestral spirits
Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
Manticore (Persian) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
Mapinguari (Brazilian) - Giant sloth
Mara (Scandinavian) - Female night-demon
Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
Mares of Diomedes (Greek) - Man-eating horses
Marid (Arabian) - Water genie
Maro deives (Lithuanian) - Disease spirits
Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting toad spirit
Matagot (French) - Spirit that takes animal form, usually a black cat
Mayura (Hindu) - Peacock spirit
Mazikeen (Jewish) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
Mbói Tu'i (Guaraní) - Snake-parrot hybrid
Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
Mekurabe (Japanese) - Multiplying skulls that menaced Taira no Kiyomori in his
courtyard
Meliae (Greek) - Ash tree nymph
Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged
mermaid
Menehune (Hawaiian) - Little people and craftsmen
Menninkäinen (Finnish) - Little people and nature spirits
Merfolk (Worldwide) - Human-fish hybrid
Merrow (Irish and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki) - Ice-hearted wizards
Miage-nyudo (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look up at it
Mikoshi-nyudo(Japanese) (Japanese) - Spirit which grows as fast as you can look
up at it
Mimi (Australian Aboriginal) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in
rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal) - Death spirit
Minotaur (Greek) - Human-bull hybrid
Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit
Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit
Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit
Mizuchi (Japanese) - Water dragon
Mohan (Latin America) - Nature spirit
Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
Mokumokuren (Japanese) - Spirits that live in torn shoji
Momonjii (Japanese) - Old man that meets victims at the fork of every road
Moñái (Guaraní) - Giant snake with antennae
Monocerus (Medieval Bestiary) - One-horned stag-horse-elephant-boar hybrid,
sometimes treated as distinct from the unicorn
Mono Grande (South America) - Giant monkey
Monopod (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dwarf with one, giant foot
Mora (Slavic) - Disembodied spirit
Morgens (Breton and Welsh) - Water spirits
Morinji-no-okama (Japanese) - Animated tea kettle
Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
Moryo (Japanese) - Long-eared, corpse-eating spirit
Moss people (Germanic) - Little people and tree spirits
Mountain Giant (Norse) - Giant
Mujina (Japanese) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
Mula Retinta (Colombian) - Malevolent storm spirit that takes the form of a mule
Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal) - Water monster
Muma Padurii (Romanian) - Forest-dwelling hag
Muscaliet (Medieval Bestiary) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid
Muse (Greek) - Spirits that inspire artists
Myling (Scandinavian) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
Myobu (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Myrmecoleon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid
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