Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
Cadejo (Central America) - Cow sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties:
benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person
will recover or die
Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
Capcaun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
Ceffyl Dwr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
Changeling (European) - Non-human humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.)
substituted for a kidnapped human child
Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chickcharney (Bahaman) - Bird-mammal hybrid
Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese
Shisa
Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
Chochinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts of women that died in childbirth
Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of
cinnamon
Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Cofgodas (Anglo-Saxon) - House sprit
Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
Cwn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
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