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La-bar-tu (
Assyrian) – Disease demon
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Labbu (
Akkadian) – Sea snake
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Lady midday (
Slavic) – Sunstroke spirit
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Ladon (
Greek) – Dragon guarding the golden apples of the
Hesperides
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Laelaps (
Greek) – Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
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Laestrygonians (
Greek) – Anthropophagic giants
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Lakanica (
Slavic) – Field spirit
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Lake monster (Worldwide) – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world
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Lakhey (
Nepalese) – Demon with fangs
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La Llorona (
Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning
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Lamassu (
Akkadian and
Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion
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Lambton Worm (
English) – Giant worm
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Lamia (
Greek) – Child-devouring monster
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Lamiak (
Basque) – Water spirit with duck-like feet
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La Mojana (
Colombian) – Shapeshifting, female water spirit
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Lampades (
Greek) – Underworld nymph
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Landvættir (
Norse) – Nature spirits
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Langmeidong (
Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature
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Lares (
Roman) – House spirit
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La Sayona (
Venezuela) – Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
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La Tunda (
Colombian) – Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
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Lava bear – Miniature bear thought to inhabit the lava beds of south central Oregon
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Laukų dvasios (
Lithuanian) – Field spirit
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Lauma (
Baltic) – Sky spirit
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Lavellan (
Scottish) – Gigantic water rat
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Leanan sidhe (
Celtic) – Fairy lover
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Leanashe (
Irish) – Possessing spirit or vampire
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Leimakids (
Greek) – Meadow nymph
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Leokampoi (
Etruscan) – Fish-tailed lion
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Leontophone (
Medieval Bestiary) – Tiny animal poisonous to lions
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Leprechaun (
Irish) – Cobbler spirit
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Leszi (
Slavic) – Tree spirit
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Leuce (
Greek) – White poplar tree nymph
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Leucrota (
Medieval Bestiary) – Crocotta-lion hybrid
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Leviathan (
Jewish) – Sea monster seen in
Job 41
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Leyak (
Balinese) – Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
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Libyan Aegipanes (
Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-horse hybrid
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Libyan Satyr (
Medieval Bestiaries) – Human-goat hybrid
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Lidérc (
Hungary) – Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
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Lietuvēns (
Latvia) - Soul of a murdered person
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Lightning Bird (
Southern Africa) – Magical bird found at sites of lightning strikes
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Likho (
Slavic) – One-eyed hag or goblin
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Lilin (
Jewish) – Night-demoness
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Lilitu (
Assyrian) – Winged demon
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Limnades (
Greek) – Lake nymph
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Lindworm (
Germanic) – Dragon
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Ljósálfar (
Norse) – Sunlight spirits; the Light Elves
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Ljubi (
Albanian) – Demoness
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Llamhigyn Y Dwr (
Welsh) – Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
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Loch Ness Monster (
Scottish) – Serpentine sea monster
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Loki (
Norse mythology) – God of night
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Lo-lol (
Abenaki) – Hideous monster
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Lóng –
Chinese dragon
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Long Ma (
Chinese) – Dragon-horse hybrid
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Loogaroo (
French America) – Shapeshifting, female vampire
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Lou Carcolh (
French) – Snake-mollusk hybrid
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Loup-garou (
French) – Werewolf
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Loveland frog (
American Folklore) (
Ohio) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
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Lubber fiend (
English) – House spirit
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Luduan (
Chinese) – Truth-detecting animal
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Lugat (
Albanian) – Vampire
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Lui-kong-tsiau (
Taiwanese) – Thunderbird
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Luison (
Guaraní) – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog
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Lusca – Sea Monster
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Lutin (
French) – Amusing goblin
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Lyngbakr
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Lynx (
Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline guide spirit