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A modern painting of the "
Piasa Bird ", on the bluffs of the
Mississippi River in
Alton, Illinois . Wings were not present in the original painting.
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
