List of legendary creatures (H)
Hippocampus drawn from a fresco in Pompeii
- Habrok (Norse) - listed as the "best" hawk
- Hadhayosh (Persian) - gigantic land animal
- Hades (Greek) - Ruler of the Underworld
- Haetae (Korean) - dog-lion hybrid
- Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - wise old woman who is usually a malevolent spirit or a disguised goddess
- Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - water serpent
- Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - male cannibalistic partially invisible monster
- Hakutaku (Japanese) - talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
- Hākuturi (Māori) - nature guardian
- Half-elf (Norse) - human-elf hybrid
- Haltija (Finnish) - spirit that protects a specific place
- Hamadryad (Greek) - oak tree nymph
- Hamingja (Scandinavian) - personal protection spirit
- Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu and Jainism) - mystic bird
- Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - long-eared humanoid
- Hantu Air (Malay) - shapeshifting water spirit
- Hantu Demon (Philippine) - demon
- Hantu Raya (Malay) - demonic servant
- Harionago (Japanese) - humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
- Harpy (Greek) - birdlike human-headed death spirit
- Haugbui (Norse) - undead being who cannot leave its burial mound
- Havsrå (Norse) - saltwater spirit
- Helloi (Manipuri mythology)-Celestial maidens, daughters of the Sky God Soraren
- Headless Horseman(European) - humanoid spirit who haunts or kills
- Headless Mule (Brazilian) - fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
- Hecatonchires (Greek) - primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
- Heikegani (Japanese) - crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
- Heinzelmännchen (German) - household spirit
- Helead (Greek) - fen nymph
- Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - underworld dog
- Heracles (Greek) - gatekeeper of Olympus
- Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - glowing bird
- Herensuge (Basque) - dragon
- Hesperides (Greek) - nymph daughters of Atlas
- Hidebehind (United States) - nocturnal forest creature
- Hiderigami (Japanese) - drought spirit
- Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - falcon-headed sphinx
- Hihi (Japanese) - baboon monster
- Hiisi (Finnish) - nature guardian
- hippalectryon (Greek)
- Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician) - horse-fish hybrid
- Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - hybrid of a griffin and horse; a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
- Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - horse-hoofed humanoid
- Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) - deer-goat hybrid
- Hitodama (Japanese) - ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
- Hitotsume-kozō (Japanese) - one-eyed childlike spirit
- Hob (English) - house spirit
- Hobbididance (English) - malevolent spirit
- Hobgoblin (Medieval) - friendly or amusing goblin
- Hodag (Native American) - frog-mammoth-lizard hybrid
- Hokhokw (Kwakiutl) - bird
- Hōkō (Japanese) - dog-like Chinese tree spirit
- Homa (Persian) - eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
- Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - human-alligator hybrid
- Hombre Gato (Latin America) - human-cat hybrid
- Homunculus (Alchemy) - small animated construct
- Hō-ō (Japanese) - rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
- Hoopoe - near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
- Hoop snake - snake which rolls by taking its tail in its mouth
- Horned Serpent (Native American) - serpentine rain spirit
- Hotoke (Japanese) - deceased person
- Houri (Islamic) - heavenly beings
- Hraesvelg (Norse) - giant, who in eagle form, creates the wind by beating his wings
- Hrímþursar (Norse) - frost giants who are the main inhabitants of either Jotunheim or Niflheim
- Huaychivo (Mayan) - human-deer hybrid
- Huginn and Muninn (Norse) - pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin whose names mean Thought and Memory.
- Huldufólk (Icelandic/Faroese) - secret mound/rock dwelling elves
- Huldra (Scandinavian) - forest spirit
- Huli jing (Chinese) - nine-tailed fox spirit
- Huma (Persian) - regenerative fire bird
- Humbaba (Akkadian) - lion-faced giant
- Hundun (Chinese) - chaos spirit
- Hupia (Taíno) - nocturnal ghost
- Hyakume (Japanese) - hundred-eyes creature
- Hydra (Greek) - multi-headed water serpent/dragon
- Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
- Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
- Hyōsube (Japanese) - hair-covered kappa
- Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - snake that kills its victims in their sleep
- Hudhud (mythology) – Hoopoe
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