List of legendary creatures (I)

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Incubus, 1870
  • Iannic-ann-ôd (Breton) – Ghost of a drowned person
  • Iara (Brazilian) – Female water spirit
  • Ibong Adarna (Philippine) – Bird that changes color when it finishes a song
  • Ichchhadhari Nag (Hindu) – Shapeshifting venomous snakes
  • Ichimoku-nyūdō (Japanese) – One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
  • Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) – Animated prayer beads
  • Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Dragon-killing animal
  • Ichthyocentaur (Greek) – Human-fish-horse hybrid
  • Iele (Romanian) – Female nature spirits
  • Ifrit (Arabian) – Fire genie
  • Ijiraq (Inuit) – Spirit that kidnaps children
  • Ikiryō (Japanese) – Can be considered a 'living ghost', as it is a person's spirit outside their body
  • Ikuchi (Japanese) – Sea serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
  • Iku-Turso (Finnish) – Sea monster
  • Il-Belliegħa (Maltese) – Malevolent well spirit
  • Imp (Medieval) – Small demonic servant
  • Impundulu (Southern Africa) – Avian, vampiric lightning spirit
  • Imugi (Korean) – Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons)
  • Inapertwa (Aboriginal) – Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else
  • Incubus (Medieval folklore) – Male night-demon and seducer
  • Indrik (Russian) – One-horned horse-bull hybrid
  • Indus Worm (Medieval Bestiaries) – Giant, white, carnivorous worm
  • Inkanyamba (Zulu) – Horse-headed serpent
  • Inugami (Japanese) – Dog spirit
  • Ior (Romanian) – Giant creature, with good spirit
  • Ipotane (Greek) – Two-legged horse-human hybrid, (as opposed to the four-legged centaur)
  • Ippon-datara (Japanese) – One-legged mountain spirit
  • Iratxoak (Basque) – Small demonic servants
  • Irin (Jewish) – Fallen angels
  • Ishigaq (Inuit) – Little people
  • Island Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) – Savage human-goat hybrid from a remote island chain
  • Isonade (Japanese) – Shark-like sea monster
  • Ittan-momen (Japanese) – Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people
  • Iwana-bōzu (Japanese) – Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
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