List of legendary creatures (D) explained

1. Dactyl (Greek) – Little people and smith and healing spirits
2. Daemon (Greek) – Incorporeal spirit
3. Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) – Similar to a deer or ibex; legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side
4. Daidarabotchi (Japanese) – Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
5. Daitengu (Japanese) – Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
6. Daitya (Hindu) – Giant
7. Dandan (Arabian) – Sea creature
8. Danava (Hindu) – Water demon
9. Daphnaie (Greek) – Laurel tree nymph
10. Datsue-ba (Japanese) – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
11. Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
12. Ded Moroz (Russia) – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
13. Deer Woman (Native American) – Human-deer hybrid
14. Deity (Global) – Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
15. Demigod (Global) – Half human, half god
16. Dhampir (Balkans) – Human/vampire hybrid
17. Diao Si Gui (Chinese) – Hanged ghost
18. Dilong (Chinese) – Earth dragon
19. Dip (Catalan) – Demonic and vampiric dog
20. Di Penates (Roman) – House spirit
21. Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) – Extremely venomous snake
22. Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) – Goanna spirit
23. Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) – Little people and nature spirits
24. Diwata (Philippine) – Tree spirit
25. Djall (Albanian) – Devil
26. Dobhar-chu (Irish) – King otter
27. Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) – Little people
28. Dokkaebi (Korean) – Grotesque, horned humanoids
29. Dökkálfar (Norse) – Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
30. Dola (Slavic) – Tutelary and fate spirit
31. Domovoi (Slavic) – House spirit
32. Doppelgänger (German) – Ghostly double
33. Drac (Catalan) – Lion or bull-faced dragon
34. Drac (French) – Winged sea serpent
35. Drakon (Greek) – Greek dragons
36. Drakaina (Greek) – Dragons depicted with female characteristics
37. Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) – Fire-breathing and (normally) winged reptiles
38. Dragon turtle (Chinese) – Giant turtle with dragon-like head
39. Drangue (Albanian) – Semi-human winged warriors
40. Draugr (Norse) – Undead
41. Drekavac (Slavic) – Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
42. Drop Bear (Australian) – Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
43. Drow (Scottish) – Cavern spirit
44. Drude (German) – Possessing demon
45. Druk (Bhutanese) – Dragon
46. Dryad (Greek) – Tree nymph
47. Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) – Little people and forest spirits
48. Duergar (English) – Malevolent little people
49. Dullahan (Irish) – Headless death spirit
50. Duwende (Philippine) – Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
51. Dvergr (Norse) – Subterranean little people smiths
52. Dvorovoi (Slavic) – Courtyard spirit
53. Dwarf (Germanic) – Little people nature spirits
54. Dybbuk (Jewish) – Spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
55. Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) – Hideous monster
56. Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) – Child-eating hag