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Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
  1. Ba ( Egyptian) – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird
  2. Baba Yaga ( Slavic) – Forest spirit and hag
  3. Babi ngepet ( Indonesia) – Monster boar
  4. Baccoo ( Guyanese/ Surinamese) – Malevolent little people
  5. Badalisc ( Italian) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps
  6. Bagiennik ( Slavic) – Malevolent water spirit
  7. Bahamut ( Arabian) – Giant fish
  8. Bai Ze ( Chinese) – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
  9. Ba Jiao Gui ( Chinese) – Banana tree spirit
  10. Bak (Indian) – Assamese shape-shifting aqueous creature
  11. Bake-kujira ( Japanese) – Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
  12. Bakeneko ( Japanese) – Magical cat
  13. Bakezōri ( Japanese) – Animated straw sandal
  14. Bakhtak ( Iranian) – Night demon named Shaina
  15. Baku ( Japanese) – Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
  16. Bakunawa ( Philippine) – Sea serpent that causes eclipses
  17. Balaur ( Romanian) – Multi-headed dragon
  18. Baloz ( Albanian) – Sea monster
  19. Bannik ( Slavic) – Bathhouse spirit
  20. Banshee ( Irish) – Screaming death spirit
  21. Baobhan Sith ( Celtic Mythology) – Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers
  22. Bardha ( Albanian) – Mountain spirit
  23. Bardi ( Trabzon) – Shapechanging death spirit
  24. Barghest – Yorkshire black dog
  25. Bar Juchne ( Jewish) – Gigantic bird
  26. Barnacle Geese ( Medieval folklore) – Geese which hatch from barnacles
  27. Barong ( Balinese) – Tutelary spirit
  28. Basajaun ( Basque) – Ancestral, megalith-building race
  29. Baš Čelik ( Serbian) – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
  30. Bashe ( Chinese) – Elephant-swallowing serpent
  31. Basilisco Chilote ( Chilota) – Chicken-serpent hybrid
  32. Basilisk ( Italian) – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
  33. Basty ( Turkic) - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
  34. Bathala ( Philippine) – Primordial god of creation
  35. Batibat ( Philippine) – Female night-demon
  36. Batsu ( Chinese) – Drought spirit
  37. Baubas ( Lithuanian) – Malevolent spirit
  38. Bauk ( Slavic) – Darkness beast
  39. Baykok ( Ojibwa) – Flying skeleton
  40. Beast of Bray Road ( American Folklore) – Werewolf
  41. Beast of Gévaudan ( France) – French werewolf
  42. Bean Nighe ( Irish) – Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
  43. Behemoth ( Jewish) – Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or elephant
  44. Bendigeidfran ( Welsh) – Giant king
  45. Bennu ( Egyptian) – Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
  46. Berehynia ( Slavic) – Water spirit
  47. Bergrisar ( Norse) – Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. "Rime-Giants") in Jotunheim
  48. Bergsrå ( Norse) – Mountain spirit
  49. Bestial beast ( Brazilian) – Centauroid specter
  50. Betobeto-san ( Japanese) – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
  51. Bhūta ( Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
  52. Bi-blouk ( Khoikhoi) – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster
  53. Bies ( Slavic) – Demon
  54. Bigfoot ( American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
  55. Binbōgami ( Japanese) – Spirit of poverty
  56. Bishop-fish ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Fish-like humanoid
  57. Biwa-bokuboku ( Japanese) – Animated biwa
  58. Black Annis ( English) – Blue-faced hag
  59. Black Dog ( British) – Canine death spirit
  60. Black Shuck – Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
  61. Blafard – Imaginary creature from the early United States of America
  62. Blemmyae ( Medieval Bestiary) – Headless humanoid with face in torso
  63. Bloody Bones ( Irish) – Water bogeyman
  64. Błudnik ( Slavic) – Mischievous gnome
  65. Blue Crow ( Brazilian) – Giant amazonian bird
  66. Bluecap ( English) – Mine-dwelling fairy
  67. Bodach ( Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
  68. Bogeyman ( English) – Malevolent spirit
  69. Boggart ( English) – Malevolent household spirit
  70. Boginki ( Slavic) – Nature spirit
  71. Bogle ( Scottish) – Malevolent spirit
  72. Boi-tatá ( Brazilian) – Giant snake
  73. Bolla ( Albanian) – Dragon
  74. Bonnacon ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
  75. Boo Hag ( American Folklore) – Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
  76. Boobrie ( Scottish) – Roaring water bird
  77. Bozaloshtsh ( Slavic) – Death spirit
  78. Brag ( English) – Malevolent water horse
  79. British big cat ( English) – mysterious black panther
  80. Brownie ( English and Scottish) – Benevolent household spirit
  81. Broxa ( Jewish) – Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
  82. Bucca ( Cornish) – Male sea-spirit, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms
  83. Bokkenrijders ( Dutch) – Ghosts/devils riding flying goats; co-opted by bandits to instil fear during raids
  84. Bugbear ( English) – Bearlike goblin
  85. Buggane ( Manx) – Ogre-like humanoid
  86. Bugul Noz ( Celtic) – Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
  87. Bukavac ( Serbia) – Six-legged lake monster
  88. Bunyip ( Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
  89. Bunny Man ( American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax
  90. Bush Dai Dai ( Guyanese) – Spirit that seduces and kills men
  91. Byangoma ( Bengali) – Fortune-telling birds
  92. Bysen ( Scandinavian) – Diminutive forest spirit
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