List of legendary creatures (P)
- Paasselkä devils (Finnish) â Spectral fire
- Pakhangba (Meitei mythology and Sanamahism) â Serpentine dragon, ruler of the universe
- Pamola (Abenaki) â Weather spirit
- Panes (Greek) â Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
- Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) â White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes
- Panis (Hindu) â Demons with herds of stolen cows
- Panlong (Chinese) â Water dragon
- Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries) â Humanoid with gigantic ears
- Panther (Medieval Bestiaries) â Feline with sweet breath
- Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries) â Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
- Pard (Medieval Bestiaries) â Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
- Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) â Fish-tailed leopard
- Patagon (Medieval folklore) â Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
- Patasola (Latin America) â Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
- Patupairehe (MÃÂori) â White-skinned nature spirits
- Pech (Scottish) â Strong little people
- Pegaeae (Greek) â Spring nymph
- Pegasus (Greek) â Winged horse
- Pegacorn â Pegasus-unicorn hybrid
- Pelesit (Malay) â Servant spirit
- Peluda (French) â Dragon
- Penanggalan (Malay) â Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
- Peng (Chinese) â Giant bird
- Penghou (Chinese) â Tree spirit
- Perchta
- Peri (Persian) â Winged humanoid
- Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore) â Deer-bird hybrid
- Pesanta (Catalan) â Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
- Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche) â Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
- Phi Tai Hong (Thai) â Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death
- Phoenix (Phoenician) â Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes
- Piasa (Native American mythology) â Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
- Piatek (Armenian) â Large land animal
- Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) â Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
- Pillan (Mapuche) â Nature spirit
- Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki) â Water spirit
- Piru (Finnish) â Minor demon
- Pishacha (Hindu) â Carrion-eating demon
- Pishtaco (Peru) â Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes
- Pita-skog (Abenaki) â Serpentine rain spirit
- Pixie (Cornish) â Little people and nature spirits
- Pixiu (Chinese) â Winged lion
- Pi yao (Chinese) â Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
- Plague Maiden
- Plakavac (Slavic) â Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
- Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki) â Tree spirit
- Polevik (Polish) â Little people and field spirits
- Pollo Maligno (Colombian) â Man-eating chicken spirit
- Polong (Malay) â Invisible servant spirit
- Poltergeist (German) â Ghost that moves objects
- Pombero (GuaranÃÂ) â Wild man and nature spirit
- Ponaturi (MÃÂori) â Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
- Pontianak (Malay) â Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
- Pop (ghost)
- Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore) Kentucky Urban Legend â Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat
- Popobawa (Africa) â One-eyed creatures bat-like
- Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology) â Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake
- PouÃÂkai (MÃÂori) â Giant bird
- Poroniec
- Povitrulya
- Preta (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain) â Ghosts of especially greedy people
- Pricolici (Romanian â Roman) â Undead wolf
- Psoglav (Serbia) â Dog-headed monster
- Psotnik (Slavic) â Mischievous spirit
- Psychai (Greek) â Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
- Psychic vampire
- Psychopomp (Greek) â Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife
- Púca (Welsh) â Shapeshifting animal spirit
- Púki (Icelandic) â Malevolent little person
- Puck (English) â House spirit
- Putz (German) â House spirit
- Pugot (Philippine) â Headless humanoid
- Puk (Frisian) â House spirit
- PÃ
«Ã·is (Latvian) â Dragon
- Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) â Troll-like gray-skinned being
- Pygmy (Greek) â Little people
- Pyrausta (Greek) â Insect-dragon hybrid
- Python (Greek) â Serpentine dragon