List of legendary creatures (V) explained
- Vadātājs (Latvian) – Spirit that misleads people
- Vahana (Hindu) – Divine mounts
- Vaibhavi (Indian) – Deadly snake
- Valkyrie (Norse) – Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
- Vâlvă (Romanian) – Female nature spirit
- Valravn (Danish) – Supernatural raven
- Vampire (Slavic) – Reanimated corpse that feeds on blood
- Vanara (Hindu) – Human-ape hybrid
- Vântoase (Romanian) – Female weather spirit
- Varaha (Hindu mythology) – Third Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a boar
- Vârcolac (Romanian) – Vampire or werewolf
- Vardøger (Scandinavian) – Ghostly double
- Vedrfolnir (Norse) – Hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of the World Tree Yggdrasil
- Veļi (Latvian) – Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human
- Věri Şělen – Chuvash dragon
- Vetala (Hindu) – Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
- Víbria (Catalan) – Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak
- Vielfras (German) – Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
- Vila (Slavic) – Weather spirit
- Vilkacis (Latvian) – Animalistic, werewolf-like monster
- Viruñas (Colombian) – Handsome demon
- Vision Serpent (Mayan) – Mystical dragon
- Vishap (Armenian) – A dragon closely associated with water, similar to the Leviathan
- Víðópnir, (Norse) – Rooster that sits atop the tree
- Vodyanoy (Slavic) – Male water spirit
- Vrykolakas (Greek) – Undead wolf-human hybrid
- Vættir (Norse) – Nature spirit