Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
Panis (Hindu) - Demons with herds of stolen cows
Panlong (Chinese) - Water dragon
Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid with gigantic ears
Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline with sweet breath
Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a
large ruminant
Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to
produce leopards
Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed panther
Patagon (Medieval folklore) - Giant race reputed to live in the area of
Patagonia
Patasola (Latin America) - Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
Patupairehe (Maori) - White-skinned nature spirits
Pech (Scottish) - Strong little people
Pegaeae (Greek) - Spring nymph
Pelesit (Malay) - Servant spirit
Peluda (French) - Dragon
Penanggalan (Philippine) - Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to
fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing
behind
Peng (Chinese) - Giant bird
Penghou (Chinese) - Tree spirit
Peri (Persian) - Winged humanoid
Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) - Deer-bird hybrid
Pesanta (Catalan) - Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) - Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
Piasa (Native American) - Winged, antlered feline
Piatek (Armenian) - Large land animal
Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) - Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
Pillan (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) - Water spirit
Piru (Finnish) - Minor demon
Pishacha (Hindu) - Carrion-eating demon
Pita-skog (Abenaki) - Serpentine rain spirit
Pixie (Cornish) - Little people and nature spirits
Pixiu (Chinese) - Winged lion
Pi yao (Chinese) - Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
Plakavac (Slavic) - Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) - Tree spirit
Polevik (Polish) - Little people and field spirits
Pollo Maligno (Colombian) - Canibbalistic chicken spirit
Polong (Malay) - Invisible servant spirit
Poltergeist (German) - Ghost that moves objects
Pombero (Guaraní) - Wild man and nature spirit
Ponaturi (Maori) - Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Pontianak (Malay) - Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
Poukai (Maori) - Giant bird
Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainist) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Pricolici (Romanian) - Undead wolf
Psotnik (Slavic) - Mischievous spirit
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
Púca (Welsh) - Shapeshifting animal spirit
Puck (English) - House spirit
Pugot (Philippine) - Headless humanoid
Pukis (Latvian) - Malevolent house spirit
Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
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