Hacker (Scandinavian) - Primitive little people
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit
with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropohagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Sheep-like animal
Hakuturi (Maori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the
warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a
lion-eagle-horse hybrid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-kozou (Japanese) - One-eyed little people
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
Hoko (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffon
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hone-onna (Japanese) - Skeletal ghost that take the form of a young woman to
seduce men
Ho-o (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in
many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hrķmžursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill
crocodiles from the inside
Hyosube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hyotan-kozo (Japanese) - Gourd spirit
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