Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical
features in Japan
Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a
separate mountain
Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses'
message
Death bird (Aztec) - Gigantic bird
Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
Demon - Malevolent spirit
Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
Dodomeki (Japanese) - Ghost of a pickpocket, her arms are covered in eyes
Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, one-legged humanoids
Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
Dorotabo (Japanese) - Ghost of an old man whose rice fields were neglected and
sold
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Dragon
Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
Drude (German) - Possessing demon
Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature
spirits
Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
Dybbuk (Jewish) - Possessing spirit
Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag
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