List of legendary creatures (C)
- Cabeiri (Greek) â Smith and wine spirit
- Cacus (Roman) â Fire-breathing giant
- Cadejo (Central America) â Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
- Cailleach (Scottish) â Divine creator and weather deity hag
- Caipora (Tupi) â Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
- Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) â White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
- Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) â Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
- Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) â Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Calydonian Boar (Greek) â Giant, chthonic boar
- Calygreyhound (Heraldic) â Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
- Camahueto (Chilota) â One-horned calf
- Camazotz (Mayan) â Underworld bat spirit
- Cambion (Medieval folklore) â Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus
- Campe (Greek) â Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
- Camulatz (Mayan) â Bird that ate the heads of the first men
- Candileja (Colombian) â Spectral, fiery hag
- Canaima (Guyanese) â Were-jaguar
- Canotila (Lakota) â Little people and tree spirits
- Caoineag (Scottish) â Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean SÃÂdhe)
- CÃÂpcÃÂun (Romanian) â Large, monstrous humanoid
- Carbuncle (Latin America) â Small creature with a jewel on its head
- Cath Palug (Welsh) â Monstrous cat
- Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) â Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
- Cat Sidhe (Scottish) â Fairy cat
- Ceasg (Scottish) â Benevolent Scottish mermaids
- Ceffyl DÃ
µr (Welsh) â Malevolent water horse
- Centaur (Greek) â Human-horse hybrid
- Centicore (Indian) â Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
- Cerastes (Greek) â Extremely flexible, horned snake
- Cerberus (Greek) â Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
- Cercopes (Greek) â Mischievous forest spirit
- Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) â Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
- Ceryneian Hind (Greek) â Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
- Cetus (Greek) - Large sea monster
- Chakora (Hindu) â Lunar bird
- Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) â Angelic birds
- Chamrosh (Persian) â Dog-bird hybrid
- Chaneque (Aztec) â Little people and nature spirits
- Changeling (European) â Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
- ÃÂhápa (Lakota) â Beaver spirit
- Chareng (Meitei) â Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
- Charybdis (Greek) â Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
- Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) â Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
- Chepi (Narragansett) â Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
- Cherufe (Mapuche) â Volcano-dwelling monster
- Cheval Mallet (French) â Evil horse who runs away with travelers
- Cheval Gauvin (French) â Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
- Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) â Ghost of an improperly buried person
- Chichevache â Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
- Chickcharney (Bahamian) â Bird-mammal hybrid
- Chimaera (Greek) â Lion-goat-snake hybrid
- ChimimÃ
ÂryÃ
 (Chinese/Japanese) â Spirits of mountains and rivers
- Chindi (Navajo) â Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
- Chinthe (Burmese) â Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
- Chitauli (Zulu) â Human-lizard hybrid
- ChÃ
Âchin'obake (Japanese) â Animated paper lantern
- Chol (Biblical mythology) â Regenerative bird
- Chollima (Korean) â Supernaturally fast horse
- Chonchon (Mapuche) â Disembodied, flying head
- Choorile (Guyanese) â Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
- Chort (Slavic) â Malign spirit or demon
- Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) â Hairy savage with dog teeth
- Chrysaor (Greek) â Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
- Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) â Golden winged ram
- Chukwa (Hindu) â Giant turtle that supports the world
- Chullachaki
- Chupacabra (Latin America) â Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
- Church grim (Germanic) â Guardian spirit
- Churel (Hindu) â Vampiric, female ghost
- Chut (Belarusian) â Household spirit
- Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) â Malevolent seductress
- Cihuateteo (Aztec) â Ghost of women that died in childbirth
- Cikavac (Serbian) â Bird that serves its owner
- Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) â Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
- Cipactli (Aztec) â Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
- Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
- Cirein cròin (Scottish) â Sea serpent
- Coblynau (Welsh) â Little people and mine spirits
- Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) â Chicken-lizard hybrid
- Cofgod (English) â Cove god
- Coinchenn (Irish) â Sea monster
- Colo Colo (Mapuche) â Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
- Corycian nymphs (Greek) â Nymph of the Corycian Cave
- Cretan Bull (Greek) â Monstrous bull
- Crinaeae (Greek) â Fountain nymph
- Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) â Ram-headed sphinx
- Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) â Monstrous dog-wolf
- The Cu Bird (Mexican) â El Pájaro Cu; a bird
- Cuco (Latin America) â Bogeyman
- Cucuy (Latin America) â Malevolent spirit
- Cuegle (Cantabrian) â Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
- Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) â Dragon
- Curruid (Irish) â Sea monster
- Curupira (Tupi) â Nature spirit
- Cu Sith (Scottish) â Gigantic fairy dog
- CÃ
µn Annwn (Welsh) â Underworld hunting dog
- Cyclops (Greek) â One-eyed giant
- Cyhyraeth (Welsh) â Death spirit
- Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) â Dog-headed humanoid