List of legendary creatures (C) explained

1. Cabeiri (Greek) – Smith and wine spirit
2. Cacus (Roman) – Fire-breathing giant
3. Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid
4. Cailleach (Scottish) – Divine creator and weather deity hag
5. Caipora (Tupi) – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
6. Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
7. Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
8. Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
9. Calydonian Boar (Greek) – Giant, chthonic boar
10. Calygreyhound (Heraldic) – Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
11. Camahueto (Chilota) – One-horned calf
    1. Cambion (Medieval folklore) – Offspring of a human and an incubus or succubus Campe (Greek) – Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
12. Camulatz (Mayan) – Bird that ate the heads of the first men
13. Candileja (Colombian) – Spectral, fiery hag
14. Canaima (Guyanese) – Were-jaguar
15. Canotila (Lakota) – Little people and tree spirits
16. Caoineag (Scottish) – Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
17. Čhápa (Lakota) – Beaver spirit
18. Chareng (Meitei mythology) — Semi-hornbill, semi-human creature
19. Căpcăun (Romanian) – Large, monstrous humanoid
20. Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head
21. Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
22. Cat Sidhe (Scottish) – Fairy cat
23. Ceasg (Scottish) – Benevolent Scottish mermaids
24. Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) – Malevolent water horse
25. Centaur (Greek) – Human-horse hybrid
26. Centicore (Indian) – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
27. Cerastes (Greek) – Extremely flexible, horned snake
28. Cerberus (Greek) – Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
29. Cercopes (Greek) – Mischievous forest spirit
30. Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) – Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
31. Ceryneian Hind (Greek) – Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
32. Cetus
33. Chakora (Hindu) – Lunar bird
34. Chalkydri (Apocryphal writings) – Angelic birds
35. Chamrosh (Persian) – Dog-bird hybrid
36. Chaneque (Aztec) – Little people and nature spirits
37. Changeling (European) – Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
38. Charybdis (Greek) – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
39. Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice
40. Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
41. Cherufe (Mapuche) – Volcano-dwelling monster
42. Cheval Mallet (French) – Evil horse who runs away with travelers
43. Cheval Gauvin (French) – Evil horse who drowns riders, similar to kelpie
44. Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit
45. Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) – Ghost of an improperly buried person
46. Chichevache – Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
47. Chickcharney (Bahamian) – Bird-mammal hybrid
48. Chimaera (Greek) – Lion-goat-snake hybrid
49. Chindi (Navajo) – Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
50. Chinthe (Burmese) – Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
51. Chitauli (Zulu) – Human-lizard hybrid
52. Chōchin'obake (Japanese) – Animated paper lantern
53. Chol (Biblical mythology) – Regenerative bird
54. Chollima (Korean) – Supernaturally fast horse
55. Chonchon (Mapuche) – Disembodied, flying head
56. Choorile (Guyanese) – Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
57. Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) – Hairy savage with dog teeth
58. Chrysaor (Greek) – Giant son of the gorgon Medusa
59. Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) – Golden winged ram
60. Chukwa (Hindu) – Giant turtle that supports the world
61. Chullachaki
62. Chupacabra (Latin America) – Cryptid beast named for its habit of sucking the blood of livestock
63. Churel (Hindu) – Vampiric, female ghost
64. Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) – Malevolent seductress
65. Cihuateteo (Aztec) – Ghost of women that died in childbirth
66. Cikavac (Serbian) – Bird that serves its owner
67. Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
68. Cipactli (Aztec) – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
69. Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore)
70. Cirein cròin (Scottish) – Sea serpent
71. Coblynau (Welsh) – Little people and mine spirits
72. Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid
73. Cofgod (English) – Cove god
74. Colo Colo (Mapuche) – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
75. Corycian nymphs (Greek) – Nymph of the Corycian Cave
76. Cretan Bull (Greek) – Monstrous bull
77. Crinaeae (Greek) – Fountain nymph
78. Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) – Ram-headed sphinx
79. Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) – Monstrous dog-wolf
80. The Cu Bird (Mexican) – El Pájaro Cu; a bird
81. Cuco (Latin America) – Bogeyman
82. Cucuy (Latin America) – Malevolent spirit
83. Cuegle (Cantabrian) – Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
84. Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) – Dragon
85. Curupira (Tupi) – Nature spirit
86. Cu Sith (Scottish) – Gigantic fairy dog
87. Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) – Underworld hunting dog
88. Cyclops (Greek) – One-eyed giant
89. Cyhyraeth (Welsh) – Death spirit
90. Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dog-headed humanoid