List of legendary creatures (P) explained

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