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Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks
passerbies
Umibozu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
Umi-nyobo (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Ungaikyo (Japanese) - Mirror monster which can display assorted wonders in its
surface
Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - One-horned goat-lion-stag-horse hybrid
Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
Urias (Romanian) - Giant
Urmahlullu (Mespotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
Utukku (Akkadian) - Underworld messenger spirit
Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit named for the sound it shouts when surprising people
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Vadatajs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
Vćttir (Norse) - Nature spirit
Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
Vâlva (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
Vampire (Slavic) - Re-animated corpse that subsists on blood
Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
Vardřger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
Veli (Latvian) - Ghost
Veri Selen - Chuvash dragon
Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic monster
Viruńas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
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Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
Wani - A crocodilian water monster
Wanyudo (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg laying bird
Warg (Norse) - Giant, demonic wolf
Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Iguana spirit
Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
Weisse Frauen (German) - Female sun spirit
Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
Woodwose (Medieval folklore) - Savage humanoid
Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
Wyrm - English dragon
Wyvern (Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
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