Description | Legendary creature | Origin (est.) | % Correct |
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Half-human, half-fish | Merman / Mermaid | Worldwide | 93%
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Head of a bull, body of a man | Minotaur | Greek | 93%
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Big serpentine, often with wings and ability to breath fire | Dragon | Worldwide | 87%
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Head and wings of eagle, body and tail of lion, guards treasure | Griffin | Greek | 87%
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Skeleton, often robed, that collects people's souls | Grim Reaper | Western Europe | 80%
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Ape-like creature who chills in North American woods | Sasquatch | USA, Canada | 80%
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Apelike man, who lives in the Himalayas, assumed abominable | Yeti | Nepal, Tibet | 80%
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Upper body of a human, lower body of a horse | Centaur | Greek | 73%
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Multi-headed dog, guard of the underworld | Cerberus | Greek, Roman | 73%
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Horse- or goat-like creature with 1 horn, sometimes tail of boar | Unicorn | Worldwide | 73%
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Wailing and shrieking fairy woman, heralds death | Banshee | Irish | 67%
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Half-bird, torso and head of a woman, ugly, steals food | Harpy | Greek, Roman | 67%
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Giant cephalopod-like sea monster, sometimes whale- or crab-like | Kraken | Nordic, North Atlantic | 67%
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Male nature spirit, permanent horse-sized erection, ears and tails of horse | Satyr | Greek | 60%
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Undead, who visit loved ones and cause mischief or death | Vampire | Europe | 60%
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Attacks especially livestock and drinks their blood | Chupacabra | Latin America | 53%
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Demon attacking people sexually during night, causes impaired health, -mental state or death (name male or female) | Incubus / Succubus | Middle East, Mediterranean | 53%
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Jackrabbit with antelope horns, possibly variation of Wolpertinger | Jackalope | North America | 53%
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Reptile, serpent king, can cause death with a single glance, venomous, often confused with cockatrice | Basilisk | Europe | 47%
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Bakery comes to life, taunts people and animals he outruns, eaten by fox | Gingerbread Boy | German | 47%
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Head of human, body of lion, tail of venomous spines or of scorpion | Manticore | Persian | 33%
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Corpses reanimated by supernatural forces (general term) | Undead | Worldwide | 33%
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Shaman-/witch-like old woman, may help, hinder or kill according to whim, sometimes trio of sisters | Baba Yaga | Slavic | 27%
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Man with moth wings | Mothman | West Virginia | 27%
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Demon-like humanoid creature living in graveyards consuming flesh | Ghoul | Arabic | 20%
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Dog, bringer of death, supernaturally strong and fast, glowing eyes, ghostly | Hellhound | Worldwide | 20%
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Shapeshifting spirit living in lakes, black horse or human | Kelpie | Scottish, Celtic | 20%
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Dark feathered messengers of a top god (name either) | Huginn / Muninn | Norse | 13%
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Shapeshifting water spirit with intent to drown | Nix / Näkki | Germanic, Scandinavian, Finnic | 7%
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One-legged youngster, smokes pipe, wears red cap that enables him to disappear/reappear anywhere, annoying prankster | Saci | Brazil | 7%
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Comes out at night to suck blood from the shadows of victim, walks backwards head between hind legs, invisibility skill, nauseating odor | Sigbin | Philippine | 7%
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Spider, trickster, clever, sometimes holds all wisdom there is | Anansi | West Africa | 0%
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Bird representative of the Sun, with too many feet (two naming options) | Golden Crow / Three-legged bird | East Asia | 0%
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Two-faced demon (man and hyena), seduces young women and eats them | Kishi | Angola region | 0%
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Malicious entity riding on people's chest as they sleep, brings bad dreams | Nightmare | Germanic, Slavic | 0%
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Guardians of the underworld, human body and animal head or face (name either) | Ox-Head / Horse-Face | China, Japan | 0%
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Fish who is a transformed wise seer, statue in Belfast N.I. | Salmon of Knowledge | Irish | 0%
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Evil witch with ability to turn into or possess animal | Skin-walker | Navajo | 0%
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