Warm-up Lists and Activities

Draw an imaginary room

Draw yourself as you will look when you are 80 years old (or any other age)

Draw a flying frog

Draw a clock cooking a meatloaf

Draw the monster that hides under your bed.

List 10 things the color BLUE (or other color: list color) reminds you of.

Draw your greatest fear.

Draw things that float.

Draw things with wheels.

Draw things that roll.

Draw things that close.

Draw things that come from eggs.

Be an ant. Draw what you would see in the cafeteria.

If you had a candy bar named after you, what would it look like and what would it be called.

If you had been a pilgrim, draw what you think you would have looked like.

If you were a flower, what kind would you be? Draw a picture of yourself as this flower.

Express in your drawing, your happiest time that you've had in the past year.

Draw something that you are good at doing or playing.

If I could be a color, I'd be ___because…. Direction: Write Your Answer in Words then draw a picture.

Draw a picture of something you'd like to become better at doing.

Using any type of line or shape, create a picture with only the 3 primary colors.

An alien spaceship has landed in the schoolyard. Draw a picture of it.

High in the Himalayan Mountains lives an abominable snow-person. Draw what the snow-person looks like.

You have made a startling discovery while skin diving. Draw what it is.

Have you ever been to a circus? Draw a picture of your favorite act with yourself as the ringmaster.

Draw a picture of one of your family members at work.

Draw a picture of your shoe (or hat.) Draw it again from another view.

Draw your hand.

Draw a picture of your pet or the pet you would LOVE to have.

Fill your page with drawings of bugs, seashells, or something that you collect.

Draw a family member or a friend.

Draw a picture of yourself as you think you might look in 10 years.

Have you ever had a daydream instead of doing your work? Draw a picture of your daydream.

Draw a picture of your house and yard with a BIG, HUGE, dinosaur in the yard.

What is the best story your grandmother/grandfather tells about the olden days? Draw a picture of this story.

Draw a picture of your favorite (or least favorite) part about school.

Draw a picture of your dream car.

What does the boogeyman look like?

If you could cast a magic spell, what would it be? Draw a picture of it.

The famous American Pop artist Andy Warhol said, "Everyone will have at least fifteen minutes of fame in a lifetime." Illustrate your 15 minutes of fame.

A new musical group has asked you to design a CD COVER for them that illustrate their music. Be sure that your design is original and does not use any other group's design. Draw this NEW CD cover.

Draw a picture of your dream house.

Design your own bedroom floor plan.

Think of 3 different animals. Draw the head of one, the body of the second, and the legs of the third one. Give it a name and write the name under the picture.

Draw yourself screaming because you are scared.

Draw the silliest thing you ever saw.

Draw a monster truck.

Draw a spider that nobody has ever seen before.

Draw what you would look like if you received a MEDAL at the US OLYMPICS.

Draw your shoe

Draw a character from a book you like

Quickly sketch out an original design of a soda can label. Make a brand name, an image, and a slogan to create a market identity, Write a catchy slogan

I always like to start with "what-if" questions. What if it got bigger? Smaller? Bolder? More subtle...? Etc...

What I have been doing for my warm ups is to write a quote... any that will make a difference in my students and even myself and I make them draw something out of it... wonderful visual art comes from this quotes! Just don’t let them use too many symbols like hearts and stars or else they will just decorate the quote with too many of them...

Draw a vase and a beautiful arrangement of flowers

Draw a picture of the inside of your stomach and the food in it after a big meal

Draw your idea of Paradise

Draw a picture of someone you would like to kiss (your boyfriend/girlfriend, a baby, your cat, etc.)

If animals could draw, what would their artwork look like? Draw their artwork.

Why are people afraid to visit cemeteries at night? Draw it.

Draw a necktie and design an interesting pattern on it.

Draw a medal for yourself. It must be designed for the thing you do best.

Draw a city on another planet.

You are a toy designer; draw your new toy.

Draw a logo for a TV. show.

Draw a picture of yourself the way you will look 20 years from now.

Draw a picture of the perfect garden for your house.

Draw a scene from your early childhood.

Draw a parade.

Draw a cover for a CD of your favorite singer

Draw a picture of where you would like to fly to.

Draw a poster to advertise your favorite movie.

Draw a construction site.

Draw your view from an airplane window.

Draw a scene on another planet and include another kind of being.

Draw a picture of an ideal wedding ceremony.

Draw a picture of someone you would like to visit.

Draw what you think a garden would look like from the view of an insect.

Draw a sandcastle.

Draw a house built underground.

Draw what a spaceship commander would see on his video screen.

Draw a view under a magnifying glass (include the magnifying glass).

Draw the boat you would like to travel in around the world.

Draw a scientist's top secret project.

Draw a new piece of sculpture for the museum's sculpture garden.

Draw a picture of yourself if you grew flowers instead of hair.

An imaginative architect has changed the look of the skyline with an innovative new building; draw the building.

Draw a modern house which would still look good in a neighborhood with older houses.

Draw an idea that came into your head by thinking of food.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your ears.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your fingers.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your feet.

Take any one of the ideas you have already drawn and revise it - - redesign it.

Write a large number in the middle of a page. Turn it into a person/animal.

Make a design using your address.

Combine a plant and an animal to create a new life form.

Add a machine to a shape (square, circle, etc.) to create a new invention.

Draw a picture. Cut your pictures into squares. Paste the squares into a new design.

Draw a picture. Fold your picture into a fan. Cut little shapes out of the fan (like cutting snowflakes). Open the picture up and glue onto a second sheet.

Illustrate a famous saying/quotation.

Draw yourself in a mood.

Draw things that make noise and illustrate the sound.

Draw things that float.

Draw things with a flavor.

Draw your greatest fear.

Draw things that close.

Illustrate "the way things were".

Draw the world from the point of view of a frog/toad.

Draw your own game board.

Draw a "how to" poster.

Draw yourself with wings.

Draw things that come from eggs.

Draw a comic strip with your own characters.

Draw your dream room.

Design an advertisement for yourself.

Design a new license plate for North Carolina.

Illustrate words such as up, upside down, apart, crazy, sane...

Design new methods of transportation.

Design an ad for your favorite music.

Design a new map.

Create an imaginary alphabet.

Draw a Bulldog in an historical outfit.

Design a costume for 2090.

Draw old-fashioned puppets.

Illustrate: If you were the tallest person in the world.

Draw a view of the jungle.

Draw a lost dog.

Draw the trail of an imaginary insect.

Draw how you would be if you were the last person on earth.

Design a new CD cover.

Draw yourself dressed in clothing from the 1970's.

Draw your best friend.

Draw your birthday wish list.

Draw an illuminated letter for your best friend.

Draw yourself in the style of your favorite artist.

Draw your "dream car".

Draw a "fantasy" house.

Draw a bubble.

Draw a leaf.

Draw the sky.

Draw a mirror and all it reflects.

Draw your favorite animal with a human face.

Draw yourself as a robot.

Draw your favorite song.

Draw your favorite photograph.

Draw your favorite person (from life).

List 10 things a color such as red reminds you of.

Look at Van Gogh's bedroom. What objects can you find?

Express in a drawing your happiest moment in the past year.

Express in a drawing something you are good at.

If I could be any color, I'd be because...

Draw a picture of something you'd like to become better at.

Using any type of line or shape, create a picture with only the 3 primary colors.

Draw one of your shoes

Draw a picture of your shoe, overlapping three different views on the same page.

Draw a picture of your pet.

Fill a page with one line that keeps going.

What is art?

Self-portrait?

Draw your window.

A Value scale with your favorite color.

Still life using as many of the grays as you can.

Design your own bedroom (a floor plan) what would you put in that room, where would you put it, how would you put it.

Camouflage something (a bug on a leaf, you in your room, a lizard on a rock) by texture or color.

Draw yourself screaming.

A vampire turning into a bat and flying away

three frogs playing leap frog

A frog falling into a hole.

A flower growing.

Draw yourself at 16 years old, 30 and 80 years old. Triptych

Draw the silliest thing you ever saw.

Draw someone picking something up.

Draw the Thinker as an animal.

Distort something. A short fat pencil. A glue bottle, the thickness and length of a pencil. A ruler made with curved lines

What subject or topic are you really interested in?

Create a Dr. Seuss landscape

Draw the wind

Draw sadness

Draw happiness

Collections of objects: toys, books (opened, closed, stacked), kitchen utensils, art materials, contrasting texture items, knick-knack collections, crumpled paper bags, still-lifes of fruit or vegetables, clothing hung from hooks or chair backs, assorted balls, a collection of cans from the pantry or shampoo bottles from the shower. Stacks of shoes. Old hats. Spools of Thread.

Fantasy art: mythological interpretations, invented creatures from actual live creatures, fables and fairy tales.

Story illustrations: for stories they've read or written. To redo those they don't like, or to emulate or reinterpret those they do like.

Portraiture. Figures. Animals. Transportation forms. Functional object design, such as the book bag or wind suit they'd like to have.

Lautrec of the 90's poster designs for an event they are involved in. Formulate an

bookmarks for the school library

junk food with wrapper

part of a vehicle

instead of a hand... your foot ( no socks or shoe)

something not pretty (one of the 8th grades faves)

an interior of something (once a student did the inside of a jar of peanut butter)

inside of closet

3 unlikely objects together

part of any object ( mystery draw)

a scene that depicts peace

Illustrate your favorite poem

Draw the contents of a trash can

Drawing of a house plant (real or artificial)

Draw an object with a surface texture.

Draw tools used in certain professions

Draw a tennis shoe

Draw your favorite shoe

draw a grouping of leaves

Draw something you might find in a department store display

Draw a large jar and fill it up with something (candy, toys, rock, etc)

Design a school desk

Draw your favorite snack food

Draw an object melting

Draw a bowl of fruit, shade it.

Draw hands holding something

Draw a mechanical object

Word picture: select a word that brings to mind a mental picture, Draw the word as the shape of the object. Such as the word apple in the shape of an apple, or apples spelling out the word.

Draw popcorn

Keyhole: what would you see through a key hole

Select an above or below point of view in a specific area (your room, kitchen, bathroom, outside, in a car, etc. Complete this drawing paying attention to details. You may complete the drawing in pencil, colored pencil, pen, etc.

Choose a portion of a magazine or newspaper picture. Glue that picture on a page in your sketchbook. Create a drawing that incorporates that picture into a story. You may use more than one magazine or newspaper image BUT the artwork should be made mainly from your added drawings. This artwork should span 2 pages. You may use color or shading. OR you could use a color scheme (monochromatic, etc.)

Choose an enclosed space- a kitchen cabinet, a television, an oven, a refrigerator, in a drawer or closet. What human qualities do the objects in the enclosed space assume when no one is watching? Do the mustard bottles dance? Do the socks play cards? This can be one page with details…be sure and show the interior of the space as well as the objects.

Draw an animal turning into a household object.

If you got a holiday card from one of these artists what would it look like? Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot, Salvador Dali, Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo

Arrange three related objects (3 kitchen items, 3 shoes, sports equipment, etc.) into a composition. Draw on one page using a light source and shading

Create an image using only found images (from magazines, newspapers, worksheets, etc.) The image should communicate a message or tell a story

Practice drawing anything from observation- the most common things is good practice

Look at yourself in a spoon- draw the distorted image

What happens when a 6-foot tall squirrel shows up in your yard?

Identify an object that relates to your identity. Create an artwork that uses the image of that object (or the actual object) as the SINGLE FOCUS of the artwork. Open media.

Fill in the blank… "I am a _ in this world." Use the text of the completed sentence to inform the artwork. Open Media. This should be a 2 page spread

Answer these questions with an image: At age six I was , At age twelve I was _, Now I am , At age 25 I will be , At age 75 I will be __

Arrange these images in a composition that communicates your identity. Open media. Should span at least 4 pages in some order that communicates the answers to the questions.

Illustrate a dream you have had using only 5 symbols (single images that communicate ideas) this may take one or two pages. You may use color or black and white to complete the image. Consider what you know about composition, emphasis, etc. as you build the images.

Make a detailed drawing of your hand holding something related to the fall season OR related to school. Make the drawing large enough that it touches all the edges of the page. You may add color or use shading

Your choice- create a one or two page drawing that demonstrates several of your strongest art skills. This is your chance to create your own assignment as many of you have requested,

What does the holiday season really mean to you? Your image can be abstract or realistic; you may choose the media. AVOID common images- meaning if you choose to show holiday gifts- SHOW THEM IN A CREATIVE WAY!

Create a design using elements from magazine or newspaper images. Cut and paste the images onto the page in your sketchbook to create the design.

Practice observational drawing skills by drawing from the following list: Shoes, Corner of a room in your house, Create an arrangement of objects, use a lamp or other light to make dramatic shadows, your pet, Creative views of your car, bicycle, skateboard, etc., Make the image reach all the way to the edges of the page. Demonstrate what you know about point of view, emphasis, composition, positive and negative space, etc.

What would you see if you grew wings and flew over our town?

What if your big toe became its own person?

What if you suddenly became very, very small?

Draw a vase and a beautiful arrangement of flowers

Draw a picture of the inside of your stomach and the food in it after a big meal

Draw your idea of Paradise (Happy Place)

If animals could draw, what would their artwork look like? Draw their artwork.

Why are people afraid to visit cemeteries at night? Draw it.

Draw a necktie and design an interesting pattern on it.

Draw a medal for yourself. It must be designed for the thing you do best.

Draw a city on another planet.

You are a toy designer; draw your new toy.

Draw a logo for a TV. show.

Draw a picture of yourself the way you will look 20 years from now.

Draw a picture of the perfect garden for your house.

Draw a scene from your early childhood.

Draw a parade.

Draw a picture of where you would like to fly to.

Draw a poster to advertise your favorite movie.

Draw a construction site.

Draw your view from an airplane window.

Draw a scene on another planet and include another kind of being.

Draw a picture of an ideal wedding ceremony.

Draw a picture of someone you would like to visit.

Draw what you think a garden would look like from the view of an insect.

Draw a sandcastle.

Draw a house built underground.

Draw what a spaceship commander would see on his video screen.

Draw a view under a magnifying glass (include the magnifying glass).

Draw the boat you would like to travel in around the world.

Draw a scientist's top secret project.

Draw a new piece of sculpture for the museum's sculpture garden.

Draw a picture of yourself if you grew flowers instead of hair.

An imaginative architect has changed the look of the skyline with an innovative new building; draw the building.

Draw a modern house which would still look good in a neighborhood with older houses.

Draw an idea that came into your head by thinking of food.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your ears.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your fingers.

Draw an idea that came into your head through your feet.

Take any one of the ideas you have already drawn and revise it - - redesign it.

Write a large number in the middle of a page. Turn it into a person/animal.

Make a design using your address.

Combine a plant and an animal to create a new life form.

Add a machine to a shape (square, circle, etc.) to create a new invention.

Draw a picture. Cut your pictures into squares. Paste the squares into a new design.

Draw a picture. Fold your picture into a fan. Cut little shapes out of the fan (like cutting snowflakes). Open the picture up and glue onto a second sheet.

Illustrate a famous saying/quotation.

Draw yourself in a mood.

Draw things that make noise and illustrate the sound.

Draw things that float.

Draw things with a flavor.

Draw your greatest fear.

Draw things that close.

Illustrate "the way things were".

Draw the world from the point of view of a frog/toad.

Draw your own game board.

Draw a "how to" poster.

Draw yourself with wings.

Draw things that come from eggs.

Draw a comic strip with your own characters.

Draw your dream room.

Design an advertisement for yourself.

Design a new license plate for Kansas.

Illustrate words such as up, upside down, apart, crazy, sane...

Design new methods of transportation.

Design an ad for your favorite music.

Design a new map.

Create an imaginary alphabet.

Design a costume for 2090.

Draw old-fashioned puppets.

Illustrate: If you were the tallest person in the world.

Draw a view of the jungle.

Draw a lost dog.

Draw the trail of an imaginary insect.

Draw how you would be if you were the last person on earth.

Design a new CD cover.

Draw yourself dressed in clothing from the 1970's.

Draw your best friend.

Draw your birthday wish list.

Draw an illuminated letter for your best friend.

Draw yourself in the style of your favorite artist.

Draw your "dream car".

Draw a "fantasy" house.

Draw a bubble.

Draw a leaf.

Draw the sky.

Draw a mirror and all it reflects.

Draw your favorite animal with a human face.

Draw yourself as a robot.

Draw your favorite song.

Draw your favorite photograph.

Draw your favorite person (from life).

Draw something for the following quote "objects in mirror are closer than they appear."

http://www.incredibleart.org/files/Warm-Up.htm

Where, what and with what?

Locations
Museums
Springville Museum of Art
MOA
BYU Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Museum of Ancient Life (Thanksgiving Point)
BYU Museum of Paleontology
Classroom
Church
Mall
Richard’s Building-Dance practices
Playground
Zoo
Restaurant
Down Town
Nature
Cabellas
Baker
Bike store
Card dealership
Old Masters-study old masters drawings-Carefully observe their linework, hatching and shading. Copy and make notes about their technique to refer to next time you are in the drawing studio.
Subjects
family
friends
kids
portraits/heads
facial expressions
hands
feet
eyes
nose
mouth
animals
bugs
fish
something from the fridge
something scary
something scaly
something soft
Something cuddly
something from childhood
news article
architecture
windows
machines
cars
airplanes
bikes
boats
kitchen appliances
vegetables and fruit
Romance
Dead Serious
Demonic
Ponies
Cute
Monsters
Lazy
Sci – fi
Innocent
Socialite
Horror
Western

Tools to use

ink pens
white ink pen
colored pencils
watercolor pencils
watercolors and watercolor brush filled with water
colored markers or just a grey marker to add some shades
graphite pencils

I decided to make this to test what I really knew about good visual character design, and also to help others who were stuggling with this subject. There's a lot to consider when designing a character for illustration, film or television, but hopefully by the end of this tutorial, it will all come second-nature to you.

A good way to start thinking critically about character design is by analyzing existing characters created in the industry. I call this a "character analysis". Look at every aspect of a character's design. The shapes, the eyes, the colours, the posture, the texture. Each element in a character's design is chosen with a simple purpose in mind - to visually introduce the audience to the character. Ask "why did they do that?", "what was the reason for that aspect of the design?". You see, every decision made in the design process sends a subtle message to the viewer, and understanding symbolism in character design can allow you to create memorable and instantly recognizable characters.

A lot of character design is thinking about the psychological impact of specific shapes, colours, proportions and symbols (as well as cultural symbols). You want your audience to "know" this character as soon as they see them. Like most artistic endeavors, there is no ultimately right or wrong way to go about character design, I'm just giving you some tips. For every rule there is an exception, you should learn the rules, and then learn when it's appropriate to break them.

K.I.S.S - Or Keep It Simple Stupid

Just a little hint. Try to keep the design as simple as you can, even in a realistic style. The simplest designs are always the most memorable (eg. Iron Man's costume is red and gold, with no tentacles or extensions growing out of it). Don't overload your character with complex appendages. Also try to minimize the finer details on your character. Get rid of any detail that your audience wouldn't notice (like a small keyring that hangs out of the character's pocket and is only visible in a close up shot).

Starting abstract:

This is where you take out your sketchbook or Photoshop and make a rough, aimless, messy sketch. Practically a scribble. Sometimes you may see something starting to form within the scribble, forming the basic structure of your character. Don't lift your pencil off the page until you're done with the sketch. Sketch roughly, lightly and quickly, because sketches that are done quickly have more energy in them.

Another way to start would be to use a blobby brush in Photoshop and paint roughly with it. The combined strokes could become a character silhouette (I'll touch more in silhouette later).

Get references:

If your character is going to be something that exists in the real world, it would be helpful to collect a bunch of photo references to help you. Constantly referring back to the photos and drawing on them in your own style won't design your character for you, but it will give you a starting point. Collecting references is a good habit to get into anyway.

I like looking at photos of animals and then making cartoon versions of them.

Who IS this character?:

The worst way you could possibly start designing a character is by telling yourself "I'm going to design a cute little teddy bear"...Okay. Unfortunately characters these days have to be deeper than that and it has to show in their design. Think of your characters as real people, develop their personalities, their histories and their physical appearances (hair colour, eye colour, height, body type, etc). Do they have any visible scars, injuries, birthmarks, deformities, etc? You'd have to remember those in the design. Write all this information down somewhere. Make a detailed profile of your character to help develop them.

It is essential for your character to posess an "inner life", which is shaped by their history and personality (actually in some cases a character's personality is shaped entirely by their history), and shows in the outer appearance of the character.

So in a way the best place to start is by developing the character's history and personality. Get to know the way the character thinks and makes decisions. If necessary, spend a day trying to think like the character. As you make decisions in everyday life, ask yourself "what would the character do?".

Once you have a history and personality for your character (that is deeper than "this is a cute, happy little teddy bear that lives in a house"), you can use that information to provide hints for designing the visual appearance of your character.

For example, I'm developing a character that is in excellent physical shape, and has fought many battles in hand to hand combat throughout his life. Some he has won, but others have ended terribly for him. He doesn't want to fight anymore, but he knows it's his responsibility. He's rather serious and extremely dedicated to his work.

Using that information, I would create a character that has a broken or bent nose, or missing teeth, along with scars and flesh wounds and maybe even a missing limb to symbolize the history of fighting and the battles he has lost. A hunched over, defeated posture would communicate a sense of exhaustion and struggle. Small, narrow eyes will be able to show a sense of seriousness in his face. Finally, of course the character will have well developed muscles, not so developed he looks like a monster, but more superhero kind of muscles.

Humans love humans:

It's true. Humans love to see stories about humans, humans can relate to humans. But what if you have a character that ISN'T human? Well, it is possible to anthropomorphise or personify your character so it looks at least a little bit like a human, but humans can see themselves in the most abstract of images, as long as you stick to a simple formula. The head and eyes on top (or in front) and the locomotion at the bottom (or behind).

Symmetry:

Viewers will most often look for bilateral symmetry, meaning one half is the mirror image of the other half. Symmetry can help you and the viewer in visualizing a full 360 degree view of your character, and makes 3D character models much easier, but in real life, living creatures are not completely symmetrical. One of our eyes could be a little lower or smaller than the other. We may have a scar on one of our cheeks and not on the other one.

Now I'm not saying symmetry is a bad thing, it can really help you in defining the basic shape and structure of your character, but breaking symmetry once it's established can really add new effect to your characters. Adding a little bit of asymmetry in the facial features and minor details like the clothes (eg. pocket on one side of the shirt) can help to add realism to the character (and make it not look like a mass-produced computer generated figure).

However going further with asymmetry, especially in facial expressions like terror, establishes a feeling of imbalance. Creating a completely asymmetrical character structure will result in a character that looks mutated or deformed, and enhance the feeling of imbalance.

Shapes:

No matter how complex a character is, it can be broken down into simple basic shapes, even with a realistic style. Shapes are the building blocks for basic character structure, especially in a simplistic cartoony style.

Rounded shapes convery a sense of innocence, an upside down triangle shows strength (since it's generally the shape of a well developed chest), while an upright triangle communicates a low centre of gravity. Sharp angles (particularly on squares and rectangles) can show rigidity and danger to enhance the effect of a stubborn and angry character. Placing sharp edges and points in a character design helps to create a dangerous or evil character (eg. Jafar from Aladdin).

Try rotating these basic shapes too for different designs. Try using ovals as well as circles in a rounded character. How about a yogurt tub shape?

Proportions:

It's important to play around with proportions to get a variety of designs (yes even in a realistic style, not everybody has exactly the same anatomy, but it's still important to learn human anatomy in realism). I like doing a simple cartoon style because I can distort and exaggerate the character as much as I want.

Anyway, in most cases the larger you make a feature, proportionally to the rest of the character, the more you're exaggerating it. If a character has large arms, you expect them to be physically strong with them. The audience would expect a character to use a long tail like a third arm (which is one thing I see neglected a lot in animation, tails that are long enough SHOULD act like third arms to strengthen a pose). A character with a large belly and short hindlegs would be perceived as slow and maybe even lethargic. Large eyes may present optimism or curiosity in your character.

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Take the size of your character's parts into account when designing them.

Posture and Movement:

Symbolism can even be found in character posture. A character that slouches over all the time will appear physically weaker or lazier than a character that always stands upright with its chest out. Keep in mind that even when standing still, a character's body (and spine) will still curve. Nobody stands as if they have a steel rod stuck up their back, not even soldiers.

Movement should mostly be considered for animation, but it is also useful to think about for poses. If a character is not athletic, you wouldn't see them running happily, they'd more likely be running just to get away from something.

Another thing that's crucial to character design is making sure your character IS ABLE TO COMPLETE THE ACTIONS REQUIRED BY THE STORY. For example you wouldn't design a fat character with short stubby arms and then expect them to be able to hang from monkey bars, or swing from a gymnast's bar. Would you?

While we're on movement, it would be advantageous to consider a character's balance. How does the character distribute their weight, especially when moving? Although this is a minor thing to consider because it is completely acceptable to design characters that would not balance at all in the real world (eg. Jessica Rabbit). To make a character that appears more human-like, it will be useful to know that men have a center of gravity (the point which gravity seems to pull on first) in their chest, and a woman's center of gravity is closer to their pelvis.

Ugliness:

I've fallen into the trap of making every character I create either cute or beautiful. It's tempting. We can't stand to see (let alone draw) an ugly character. Some people try to make all their characters beautiful, when really, there are many different kinds of beautiful, and characters would look even more beautiful if they had an ugly character standing next to them (eg. in Beauty and the Beast).

If your character is meant to be a villain or someone that is designed to scare and disgust your viewers, then it's okay to crank the ugliness RIGHT UP. The uglier a character is, the less your audience will empathize with them (however in some cases an ugly character can be so well internally developed that the audience will empathize with them anyway). Notice how in "Beauty and the Beast" that while the beast looked fierce and hideous, he didn't look so ugly that you couldn't feel for him? (Of course it was a kids movie so they could only go so far with the ugliness). He could have had warts, strangely distorted anatomy, bloodshot glowing eyes, etc.

Some people use only wounds and scars in an attept to make a character ugly. While these things do detract from a character's appearance, using them alone will only make the character look tough and warrior-like. It's the signs of ill health (eg. rotting teeth) and extreme distortion in anatomy (one eye being exceptionally larger than the other) that will help add to a character's ugliness.

Here are some things that are guaranteed to make a character look ugly:

- Discoloured teeth - not seeing teeth as their natural colour gives a feeling of strangeness and sickness
- Rotted or missing teeth
- Buck or misaligned teeth - You ever look back on your dental cast from before you had braces? Try exaggerating that
- Extreme distortions in anatomy - I mean stuff that is so extreme it might throw the character off balace. Try distorting the face into an extremely assymetrical image
- Pus - nobody likes pus. Try putting it around the eyes, in scars/wounds and around the teeth
- Bloodshot eyes
- Pimples and blisters
- Extreme flesh wounds - Try out huge scars and even areas where the flesh has been completely teared off
- Bone showing through flesh wounds - Enhances realism and anatomy
- Lumps and bumps - especially in places you wouldn't expect to find them
- Warts
- Veins showing through skin
- Bones slightly visible through skin - Like when a person is starved
- Unnatural spots or bruises
- Wrinkles - You know like the kind old people get. I'm not saying old people are ugly, but everybody does what they can to hide wrinkles

Don't forget, ugly characters look even uglier if these features look REALISTIC.

Eyes:

The eyes are a window to the soul, so I thought it needed its own section. Eyes can communicate a lot about a character, especially in facial expression. Large, wide eyes can show a sense of optimism and curiosity, while small eyes can emphasise a narrow minded character. Drooping eyelids can portray a sleepy character or a character that doesn't care about very much besides himself...or even a character that's stoned.

Bear in mind that asian characters have different shaped eyes compared to western characters. They are naturally narrower, but can be just as expressive. Just don't draw a coin slot to represent these eyes.

Experiment with the proportion and shape of the eyes for different expressions.

Colours:

The key to using colour effectively in character design is to use it sparingly. Just like fine details and complex appendages, the more colourful you make a character, the more your audience will have to remember and the less memorable your character will become.

The tip is, don't use a million colours. Try to use a maximum of three base colours for large areas on the character (like a whole cloak/coat or the skin) and two more colours for finer detail areas (like buttons on the coat). Try to use even fewer colours than that.

It would be advisable to use colours that work harmoniously together (don't clash) (like an analogous or complimentary colour scheme) and reflect the character's personality.

Be aware that certain colours represent certain symbols or emotions. For example red helps to signify action, romance and danger. Purple on the other hand is seen in studios as the colour of royalty, mainly because before digital colour was introduced, it was the most expensive paint colour available to animation studios. There are resources on the internet that list possible emotions and symbols that are connected to each colour:

www.princetonol.com/groups/iad…
www.squidoo.com/colorexpert

It also wouldn't hurt to learn a bit of colour theory so you can make pleasing colour combinations on your character.

Silhouette:

If you've kept the character's design simple and not overloaded it with details, then the character (and what they're doing) should be instantly recognizable as a silhouette. If not, you may need to go back and rework your character.

There will be times when you want the character to look mysterious and menacing and your don't want your viewer to be able to pick it from the silhouette. This is the only exception to the silhouette rule.

Using silhouette in posing your character is also a good way to utilize negative space, which is empty space that is not taken up by a character or object.

Fitting In With Other Characters:

One aspect of character design that was practiced well in the era of the 90s and classic Disney (but doesn't get much attention anymore) is considering how a character design will look when it's standing next to some of your other character designs from the same story. A good example of this would be from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Notice how the characters have colour schemes that do not clash with each other, and they blend in well with the castle interiors. Most importantly, all the characters in that film appear to come from the same universe, like they belong in the same world.

Only recently did I notice that in the classic series of Inspector Gadget, all the characters were designed with a cartoony style as a foundation, while Penny's design appeared to be more influenced by anime. Now that I've realized it, it appears to me that Penny comes from an entirely different world from the other characters.

Artistic style, height, colour schemes and negative space are the main things one must consider when "testing" out character designs alongside other characters.

Stereotypes and Cliche:

It is the mission of an animator and storyteller to avoid cliche, however in an effort to be clear and concise, it is very easy to default to cliche without realizing it. A cliche is an element in storytelling, be it a character, symbol, concept, line of dialogue or plot, that has been used so many times that it has lost its originality.

In a scenario where you want to surprise your viewers, you may design a character to communicate the opposite of that character's personality. For example a character that appears to be a fighter and a bodybuilder could actually be quite intelligent, and without interest in violence. When this is revealed, it's an unexpected surprise, because we were lead to think differently through the visual messages in the design.

Again, this is an example of breaking the rules of character design. I'm not saying you should do this for every character you create. That might be a bit too much surprise.

Finding Your Style:

Every artist has their own unique visual style, which was developed over many years of drawing. Even if your style is an abstract, cartoony one, it will very much improve if you learn realistic human anatomy and learn how to observe things in the real world.

The style you will be most comfortable with will greatly be influenced by the artists and media that has inspired you to pick up a pencil and start drawing in the first place. If you want to start defining a visual style, making a list of the things that have greatly influenced you and studying those sources of inspiration as a form of reference is a good way to go about it.

Avoiding Mary Sues:

Thought I'd put this last. In case you don't know, a Mary Sue is a character that is "invincible" in the story and doesn't have any flaws. They are usually beautiful and are admired by other characters for their beauty. Sometimes other characters (even the villain) become jealous of their beauty. In some cases, a Mary Sue can be so powerful they can easily reform the villain. It is also a Mary Sue trait for these characters to have powers, animals or objects that are not usually possessed by people in the world of the story (eg. a pet gryphon in a world where everyone has cats and dogs), and to be able to master advanced magic or weaponry in an extremely short time (eg. mastering a spell that takes years to learn in only a couple of weeks).

If your character does not have any physical or psychological flaws, then they won't be memorable. We remember characters like Woody because they have flaws, which make them appear more human and relatable.

Don't Be Satisfied With the First Drawing:

The best character designs were not just "designed", they evolved from previous designs. This pretty much means that you shouldn't do just one drawing of the character and assume that will do. Movie studios do pages and pages of character designs, some just trying out different hairstyles or features, before they decide on a final design. You never see the scrapped designs unless you buy the art book, if there is one produced.

Always look at your character and ask yourself what could be changed or improved. Experiment with different shapes and proportions. Allow the character to "evolve" until you believe there's nothing left to improve.

You may find your character design continues to evolve even after this "design" process is complete. This is completely normal and (in most cases) your audience will accept it. Take Bugs Bunny for example. His original design looks almost nothing like how we see him now, and Warner Bros are in the process of changing him again to suit a more abstract and simplified style. I've found videogame characters like Super Mario, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot have also "evolved" in design over the years.

Creative Character Design Challenge

Make a list of animals, insects and birds; character types; props; attitudes/expressions. Print them out and cut them into little slips of paper. Put them all in one Ziploc bag or separate different categories into several Ziploc bags.

Before you start drawing into your sketchbook pull out few pieces of papers and challenge yourself to create a character using that combination. For example, combining “rhino”, “lederhosen”, and “ready to fight” would probably result in a burly German rhino looking like he’ll knock your block off if you dare to snicker at his silly green outfit.

List of animals, birds, insects:

Abyssinian
Adelie Penguin
Affenpinscher
Afghan Hound
African Bush Elephant
African Civet
African Clawed Frog
African Forest Elephant
African Palm Civet
African Penguin
African Tree Toad
African Wild Dog
Ainu Dog
Airedale Terrier
Akbash
Akita
Alaskan Malamute
Albatross
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Alligator
Alpine Dachsbracke
American Bulldog
American Cocker Spaniel
American Coonhound
American Eskimo Dog
American Foxhound
American Pit Bull Terrier
American Staffordshire Terrier
American Water Spaniel
Anatolian Shepherd Dog
Angelfish
Ant
Anteater
Antelope
Appenzeller Dog
Arctic Fox
Arctic Hare
Arctic Wolf
Armadillo
Asian Elephant
Asian Giant Hornet
Asian Palm Civet
Asiatic Black Bear
Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Kelpie Dog
Australian Mist
Australian Shepherd
Australian Terrier
Avocet
Axolotl
Aye Aye
Baboon
Bactrian Camel
Badger
Balinese
Banded Palm Civet
Bandicoot
Barb
Barn Owl
Barnacle
Barracuda
Basenji Dog
Basking Shark
Basset Hound
Bat
Bavarian Mountain Hound
Beagle
Bear
Bearded Collie
Bearded Dragon
Beaver
Bedlington Terrier
Beetle
Bengal Tiger
Bernese Mountain Dog
Bichon Frise
Binturong
Bird
Birds Of Paradise
Birman
Bison
Black Bear
Black Rhinoceros
Black Russian Terrier
Black Widow Spider
Bloodhound
Blue Lacy Dog
Blue Whale
Bluetick Coonhound
Bobcat
Bolognese Dog
Bombay
Bongo
Bonobo
Booby
Border Collie
Border Terrier
Bornean Orang-utan
Borneo Elephant
Boston Terrier
Bottle Nosed Dolphin
Boxer Dog
Boykin Spaniel
Brazilian Terrier
Brown Bear
Budgerigar
Buffalo
Bull Mastiff
Bull Shark
Bull Terrier
Bulldog
Bullfrog
Bumble Bee
Burmese
Burrowing Frog
Butterfly
Butterfly Fish
Caiman
Caiman Lizard
Cairn Terrier
Camel
Canaan Dog
Capybara
Caracal
Carolina Dog
Cassowary
Cat
Caterpillar
Catfish
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Centipede
Cesky Fousek
Chameleon
Chamois
Cheetah
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Chicken
Chihuahua
Chimpanzee
Chinchilla
Chinese Crested Dog
Chinook
Chinstrap Penguin
Chipmunk
Chow Chow
Cichlid
Clouded Leopard
Clown Fish
Clumber Spaniel
Coati
Cockroach
Collared Peccary
Collie
Common Buzzard
Common Frog
Common Loon
Common Toad
Coral
Cottontop Tamarin
Cougar
Cow
Coyote
Crab
Crab-Eating Macaque
Crane
Crested Penguin
Crocodile
Cross River Gorilla
Curly Coated Retriever
Cuscus
Cuttlefish
Dachshund
Dalmatian
Darwin’s Frog
Deer
Desert Tortoise
Deutsche Bracke
Dhole
Dingo
Dinosour
Discus
Doberman Pinscher
Dodo
Dog
Dogo Argentino
Dogue De Bordeaux
Dolphin
Donkey
Dormouse
Dragonfly
Drever
Duck
Dugong
Dunker
Dusky Dolphin
Dwarf Crocodile
Eagle
Earwig
Eastern Gorilla
Eastern Lowland Gorilla
Echidna
Edible Frog
Egyptian Mau
Electric Eel
Elephant
Elephant Seal
Elephant Shrew
Emperor Penguin
Emperor Tamarin
Emu
English Cocker Spaniel
English Shepherd
English Springer Spaniel
Entlebucher Mountain Dog
Epagneul Pont Audemer
Eskimo Dog
Estrela Mountain Dog
Falcon
Fennec Fox
Ferret
Field Spaniel
Fin Whale
Finnish Spitz
Fire-Bellied Toad
Fish
Fishing Cat
Flamingo
Flat Coat Retriever
Flounder
Fly
Flying Squirrel
Fossa
Fox
Fox Terrier
French Bulldog
Frigatebird
Frilled Lizard
Frog
Fur Seal
Galapagos Penguin
Galapagos Tortoise
Gar
Gecko
Gentoo Penguin
Geoffroys Tamarin
Gerbil
German Pinscher
German Shepherd
Gharial
Giant African Land Snail
Giant Clam
Giant Panda Bear
Giant Schnauzer
Gibbon
Gila Monster
Giraffe
Glass Lizard
Glow Worm
Goat
Golden Lion Tamarin
Golden Oriole
Golden Retriever
Goose
Gopher
Gorilla
Grasshopper
Great Dane
Great White Shark
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
Green Bee-Eater
Greenland Dog
Grey Mouse Lemur
Grey Reef Shark
Grey Seal
Greyhound
Grizzly Bear
Grouse
Guinea Fowl
Guinea Pig
Guppy
Hammerhead Shark
Hamster
Hare
Harrier
Havanese
Hedgehog
Hercules Beetle
Hermit Crab
Heron
Highland Cattle
Himalayan
Hippopotamus
Honey Bee
Horn Shark
Horned Frog
Horse
Horseshoe Crab
Howler Monkey
Human
Humboldt Penguin
Hummingbird
Humpback Whale
Hyena
Ibis
Ibizan Hound
Iguana
Impala
Indian Elephant
Indian Palm Squirrel
Indian Rhinoceros
Indian Star Tortoise
Indochinese Tiger
Indri
Insect
Irish Setter
Irish WolfHound
Jack Russel
Jackal
Jaguar
Japanese Chin
Japanese Macaque
Javan Rhinoceros
Javanese
Jellyfish
Kakapo
Kangaroo
Keel Billed Toucan
Killer Whale
King Crab
King Penguin
Kingfisher
Kiwi
Koala
Komodo Dragon
Kudu
Labradoodle
Labrador Retriever
Ladybird
Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Lemming
Lemur
Leopard
Leopard Cat
Leopard Seal
Leopard Tortoise
Liger
Lion
Lionfish
Little Penguin
Lizard
Llama
Lobster
Long-Eared Owl
Lynx
Macaroni Penguin
Macaw
Magellanic Penguin
Magpie
Maine Coon
Malayan Civet
Malayan Tiger
Maltese
Manatee
Mandrill
Manta Ray
Marine Toad
Markhor
Marsh Frog
Masked Palm Civet
Mastiff
Mayfly
Meerkat
Millipede
Minke Whale
Mole
Molly
Mongoose
Mongrel
Monitor Lizard
Monkey
Monte Iberia Eleuth
Moorhen
Moose
Moray Eel
Moth
Mountain Gorilla
Mountain Lion
Mouse
Mule
Neanderthal
Neapolitan Mastiff
Newfoundland
Newt
Nightingale
Norfolk Terrier
Norwegian Forest
Numbat
Nurse Shark
Ocelot
Octopus
Okapi
Old English Sheepdog
Olm
Opossum
Orang-utan
Ostrich
Otter
Oyster
Pademelon
Panther
Parrot
Patas Monkey
Peacock
Pekingese
Pelican
Penguin
Persian
Pheasant
Pied Tamarin
Pig
Pika
Pike
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Piranha
Platypus
Pointer
Poison Dart Frog
Polar Bear
Pond Skater
Poodle
Pool Frog
Porcupine
Possum
Prawn
Proboscis Monkey
Puffer Fish
Puffin
Pug
Puma
Purple Emperor
Puss Moth
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Pygmy Marmoset
Quail
Quetzal
Quokka
Quoll
Rabbit
Raccoon
Raccoon Dog
Radiated Tortoise
Ragdoll
Rat
Rattlesnake
Red Knee Tarantula
Red Panda
Red Wolf
Red-handed Tamarin
Reindeer
Rhinoceros
River Dolphin
River Turtle
Robin
Rock Hyrax
Rockhopper Penguin
Roseate Spoonbill
Rottweiler
Royal Penguin
Russian Blue
Sabre-Toothed Tiger
Saint Bernard
Salamander
Sand Lizard
Saola
Scorpion
Scorpion Fish
Sea Dragon
Sea Lion
Sea Otter
Sea Slug
Sea Squirt
Sea Turtle
Sea Urchin
Seahorse
Seal
Serval
Sheep
Shih Tzu
Shrimp
Siamese
Siamese Fighting Fish
Siberian
Siberian Husky
Siberian Tiger
Silver Dollar
Skunk
Sloth
Slow Worm
Snail
Snake
Snapping Turtle
Snowshoe
Snowy Owl
Somali
South China Tiger
Spadefoot Toad
Sparrow
Spectacled Bear
Sperm Whale
Spider Monkey
Spiny Dogfish
Sponge
Squid
Squirrel
Squirrel Monkey
Sri Lankan Elephant
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Stag Beetle
Starfish
Stellers Sea Cow
Stick Insect
Stingray
Stoat
Striped Rocket Frog
Sugar Glider
Sumatran Elephant
Sumatran Orang-utan
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Sumatran Tiger
Sun Bear
Swan
Tang
Tapir
Tarsier
Tasmanian Devil
Tawny Owl
Termite
Tetra
Thorny Devil
Tibetan Mastiff
Tiffany
Tiger
Tiger Salamander
Tiger Shark
Tortoise
Toucan
Tree Frog
Tropicbird
Tuatara
Turkey
Turkish Angora
Uakari
Uguisu
Umbrellabird
Vampire Bat
Vervet Monkey
Vulture
Wallaby
Walrus
Warthog
Wasp
Water Buffalo
Water Dragon
Water Vole
Weasel
Welsh Corgi
West Highland Terrier
Western Gorilla
Western Lowland Gorilla
Whale Shark
Whippet
White Faced Capuchin
White Rhinoceros
White Tiger
Wild Boar
Wildebeest
Wolf
Wolverine
Wombat
Woodlouse
Woodpecker
Woolly Mammoth
Woolly Monkey
Wrasse
X-Ray Tetra
Yak
Yellow-Eyed Penguin
Yorkshire Terrier
Zebra
Zebra Shark
Zebu
Zonkey
Zorse
admiral butterfly
ambush bug
ant
aphid
armyworm
assassin bug
atlas moth
backswimmer
bedbug
bee
beetle
blue morpho butterfly
bluet
borer
brown butterfly
buckeye butterfly
bug
bumblebee
butterfly
carpenter ant
caterpillar
chrysalis
cicada
cockroach
comma butterfly
copper butterfly
crane fly
cricket
cutworm
damselfly
darkling beetle
dragonfly
dung beetle
earwig
egg
fire ant
firefly
flea
fly
fritillary butterfly
fruitfly
gnat
gossamer-winged butterfly
grasshopper
green darner dragonfly
ground beetle
grub
gypsy moth
hairstreak butterfly
harlequin bug
horse fly
honeybee
hornet
house fly
hover fly
imago
insect
Japanese beetle
Julia butterfly
jumping bean
junebug
katydid
kissing bug
ladybug
lacewing
larva
leafcutter ant
leafhopper
lice
lightning bug
locust
longhorn beetle
louse
luna moth
maggot
mantid
mantis
mayfly
meadowhawk
mealworm
metalmark butterfly
metamorphosis
midge
milkweed bug
monarch
morpho
mosquito
moth
nymph
Oregon silverspot butterfly
owl butterfly
painted lady butterfly
paper wasp
planthopper
pond skater
praying mantid
praying mantis
pupa
Queen Alexandra’s birdwing butterfly
roach
robber fly
scarab
silkworm
silverfish
skipper
snout butterfly
spittlebug
springtail
stag beetle
stink bug
stonefly
sulphur butterfly
swallowtail butterfly
termite
thriptiger beetle
tiger moth
tsetse fly
Ulysses butterfly
viceroy butterfly
walkingstick
wasp
water boatman
waterbug
waterstrider
weevil
wood-borer
wood nymph butterfly
woolly bear caterpillar
yellowjacket
yellow-white butterfly
zebra longwing butterfly
zebra swallowtail butterfly

Prop list for character design:

America: Burger and soda pop, stuffed whale, aviator goggles, a stuffed eagle, his chainsaw, hotdog, Superman/hero cape,
Japan: Bokken, katana, Japanese sweets, a manga, a tourist book, a digital camera, his stick sword from Paint It White, bentou
China: Stuffed panda, hello kitty stuff, fake chinese rice buns in a bamboo dish, wok, ladles, basket,
Germany: Gun, cuckoo clock, riding crop, italy’s letter, the underwear that italy gives him, beer stein, field radio, survival knife, dog plushie, potatoes, wrench/tools, plate of wurst
Prussia: Crown, Gilbird, riding crop, beer stein
N Italy: Pizza, pasta, white flag, stuffed cats, marker from PIW, Fail!grenade
S Italy: Mustache, pizza, pasta, tomato, Fail!Grenade
Chibitalia: Broom, pizza, pasta, paint brush and canvas,
Chibiromano: Pizza, tomatoes
Spain: Tomatoes, Turtles, halberd, cross
Austria: Violin, sheet music, tea cup, conductor baton
England: Tea cup, fake burnt scones, wand, embroidery hoop, spell book, flying mint bunny, unicorn, handcuffs (cop), punk guitar,
France: Rose, bottle or glass of wine, Pierre the bird,
Russia: Pipe, sunflowers, bazooka, vodka bottle, rocket launcher, Cheburashka doll, fur coat, fur hat, pickle
Belarus: Knife, sunflower, wedding bouquet
Sealand: Stuffed goat
Canada: stuffed Kumajiro, stuffed polar bear, maple syrup
Hungary: Frying pan, flowers, bento, video camera
Seychelles: giant fish, spear
Ukraine: basket of flowers, pitchfork, hoe
Switzerland: a gun, chocolates
Poland: pony plushie,
Estonia: electronics, barnswallow, blue cornflower, blood sausage,
Liechtenstein: switzerland’s drawings, diary/journal
Denmark: axe, beer
Hong Kong: panda
Belgium: chocolates
Taiwan: Parasol
Ancient Rome: spear, shield,
Germania: Lederhosen, braided hair, sauerkraut
Netherlands: pipe, bouquet of tulips
Sweden: “I love my Finnish Wife” shirt, a plushie Finland,
Lithuania: Tea set on a tray, white stork, Common Rue
Latvia: wagtail plushie, ladybug plushie, daisy
Finland: Hanatamago plushie, sack of presents, reindeer
Turkey: tulips
Greece: Stuffed cats,
Holy Rome: picture of chibitalia, underwear from chibitalia, broom
Iceland: stuffed puffin
Norway: stuffed fairy, stuffed troll,
Cuba: Fake cigar, ice cream, Dominoes, Tostones, Plantain chips,
Monaco: playing cards
Egypt: camel plushie, stuffed egyptian dog, jackal
Vietnam: rice paddle
New Zealand: stuffed sheep, kiwi bird, cane
Australia: Koala plushie, kangaroo plushie, boomerang
Thailand: stuffed elephant, orange monk robe,
Cameroon: stuffed wildcat,
Romania: Candle
sword
gun
passport
ethnic food
staff
knife
spoon
bottle
axe
tiger claw
daggers
iron fan
rifle
brass knuckles
bow
scissors
hammer
club
frying pan
baseball bat
broom
spear
javelin
boomerang
throwing darts
throwing knives
throwing axe
slingshot
chain
handcuffs
prisoner uniform
shield
jumprope
fur coat
fur hat
highheels
boots
tennis shoes
tennis racket
basketball
soccerball
golf clubs
swimming ring (duck, ladybug)
lifevest
parashoot
cap
hoodie
suit
coat
vest
skirt
dress
pants
tailcoat
navy outfit
army outfit
nazi outfit
machete
cannon
missile
apron
ball gown
bandanna
baseball cap
bathing suit
battledress
beanie
bedclothes
bell-bottoms
belt
beret
Bermuda shorts
bib
bikini
blazer
bloomers
blouse
boa
bonnet
bow
bow tie
boxer shorts
boxers
bra
bracelet
brassiere
breeches
briefs
buckle
button
button-down shirt
caftan
camisole
camouflage
cap
cap and gown
cape
capris
cardig
chemise
cloak
clogs
clothes
clothing
coat
collar
corset
costume
coveralls
cowboy boots
cowboy hat
cravat
crown
cuff
cuff links
culottes
cummerbund
dashiki
diaper
dinner jacket
dirndl
drawers
dress
dress shirt
duds
dungarees
earmuffs
earrings
elastic
evening gown
fatigues
fedora
fez
flak jacket
flannel nightgown
flannel shirt
flip-flops
formal wear
frock
fur
gaiters
galoshes
garb
gabardine
garment
garters
gear
getup
gilet
girdle
glasses
gloves
gown
halter top
handbag
handkerchief
hat
Hawaiian shirt
hazmat suit
headscarf
helmet
hem
high heels
hoodie
hook and eye
hose
hosiery
hospital gown
houndstooth
housecoat
jacket
jeans
jersey
jewelry
jodhpurs
jumper
jumpsuit
kerchief
khakis
kilt
kimono
kit
knickers
lab coat
lapel
leather jacket
leggings
lederhosen
leg warmers
leotard
life jacket
lingerie
loafers
loincloth
longjohns
long underwear
miniskirt
mittens
moccasins
muffler
mumu
neckerchief
necklace
nightgown
nightshirt
onesies
outerwear
outfit
overalls
overcoat
overshirt
pajamas
panama hat
pants
pantsuit
pantyhose
parka
pea coat
peplum
petticoat
pinafore
pleat
pocket
pocketbook
polo shirt
poncho
poodle skirt
porkpie hat
pullover
pumps
purse
raincoat
ring
robe
rugby shirt
sandals
sari
sarong
scarf
school uniform
scrubs
shawl
sheath dress
shift
shirt
shoe
shorts
shoulder pads
shrug
singlet
skirt
slacks
slip
slippers
smock
snaps
sneakers
sock
sombrero
spacesuit
Stetson hat
stockings
stole
suit
sunbonnet
sundress
sunglasses
sun hat
suspenders
sweater
sweatpants
sweatshirt
sweatsuit
swimsuit
T-shirt
tam
tank top
teddy
threads
tiara
tie
tie clip
tights
toga
togs
top coat
top hat
train
trench coat
trunks
turtleneck
tutu
trench coat
trousers
trunks
tube top
tunic
turban
turtleneck shirt
tux
tuxedo
tweed jacket
twill
twin set
umbrella
underclothes
undershirt
underwear
uniform
veil
Velcro
vest
vestments
visor
waders
waistcoat
wear
wedding gown
Wellingtons
wetsuit
white tie
wig
windbreaker
woollens
wrap
yoke
zipper
zoris
Screwdrivers
tape measure
drill
plunger
Duct tape
Rubber gloves
saw
shovel
rake
hammer
gasmask
Fire Fighter
Police Man
Medical Examiner
Nurse
McDonalds Workers
Burger King Workers
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List of Mythological Creatures:

Centaur,a head and torso of a human with the legs and behind of a horse
Cerberus, the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of the Underworld
Charybdis, a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool
Chimera, a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the middle-parts of a goat and a snake for its tail.
Empousai, seductive female vampire demons with a leg of bronze and a donkey’s foot. They are especially good at killing men with their beauty.
Gorgons, three cursed sisters with serpents for hair
Medusa, whose gaze could turn mortals to stone
Stheno, most murderous of the sisters
Euryale whose scream could kill
Graeae, three old women with one tooth and one eye
Harpies, winged monsters with heads and torsos of women
Hippalectryon, a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body of a horse
Hippocampi, sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of fish
Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish
Ipotane, a race of half-horse, half-humans
Kobaloi, a species of mischievous creatures, fond of tricking or frightening humans
Manticore, a monster with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and a tail that can shoot spikes.
Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain multiple times.
Mormo, a vampiric creature who bit bad children
Lamia, a vampiric demon which preyed on children
Hydra, a many-headed, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour
Furies, the three goddesses of pain. Worked for Hades in the Underworld to punish evil souls. Created from the blood of Ouranos.
Charon, a ferryman at the river Styx
Ophiotaurus, a creature part bull and part serpent
Orthrus, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, slain by Heracles
Panes, a tribe of nature-spirits which had the heads and torsos of men, the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces and goat-horns
Pholus, a wise centaur and friend of Heracles
Satyrs and Satyresses, companions of Pan and Dionysus which had human upper bodies, and the horns and hindquarters of a goat
Scylla, lover of Poseidon, transformed by Circe into a many-headed, tentacled monster who fed on passing sailors in the straits between herself and Charybdis.
Sirens, three beautiful mermaid/bird like women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths
Taraxippi, ghosts that frightened horses
Telekhines, skilled metal-workers with the heads of dogs and flippers of seals in place of hands
Wood Nymphs, beautiful women who each had a plant that they lived in, they were often chased by heroes, gods and satyrs
Arion, the immortal horse of Adrastus who could run at fantastic speeds
Balius and Xanthus, the immortal horses of Achilles
Calydonian Boar, a gigantic boar sent by Artemis to ravage Calydon and slain in the Calydonian Boar Hunt
Ceryneian Hind, an enormous deer which was sacred to Artemis; Heracles was sent to retrieve it as one of his labours
Griffin or gryphon, a creature that combines the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle
Golden Fleece, from a golden-haired ram, which was held in Colchis.
Erymanthian Boar, a gigantic boar which Heracles was sent to retrieve as one of his labours
Karkinos, a giant crab which fought Heracles alongside the Hydra
Laelaps, a dog destined always to catch its prey
Mares of Diomedes, four man-eating horses belonging to the giant Diomedes
Nemean Lion, a gigantic lion whose skin was impervious to weapons; it was strangled by Heracles
Pegasus, a divine winged horse that is pure white, was foaled by Medusa
Phoenix, a golden-red bird of which only one could live at a time, but would burst into flames to form a new phoenix
Sphinx has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman
Stymphalian Birds, man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims
Teumessian fox, a gigantic fox destined never to be caught
Unicorn, a beatiful horse like creature with a magical horn on it’s forehead
Agrius, a man-eating Thracian giant who was half man and half bear
Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant tasked with guarding over Io
Cyclopes (Elder), one-eyed cannibalistic giants who shepherded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily
The Gegenees, a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia
Geryon, a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island of Erytheia
Drakons were giant serpents, sometimes possessing multiple heads, or being able to breath fire but most just spit deadly venom.
Cetea were sea monsters. They were usually featured in myths of a hero rescuing a sacrificial princess.
Arimaspi, a tribe of one-eyed men
Monopodes or Skiapodes, a tribe of one-legged Libyan men who used their gigantic foot as shade against the midday sun
Panotii, a tribe of northern men with gigantic, body-length ears
Pygmies, a tribe of one and a half foot tall African men who rode goats into battle against migrating cranes
Abominable Snowman - Giant human-like body, white shaggy fur, big feet
Aigamuxa - Human-like mythical creatures with eyes on their feet
Amarok - Gigantic wolf that hunts alone
Amphisbaena - Snake with a head at each end
Antmen - Four weapon bearing arms, red eyes and a crushing jaw
Aswang - Evil vampire-like witch
Baba Yaga - Frail looking woman with jewelry made of bones
Bunyip - Large water monster, huge mouth, crocodile tail
Caladrius - Mythical snow-white bird
Cerastes - Large and extremely flexible serpent with horns
Chupacabra - Small bear-like, hairless beast with spikes
Cretan Bull - A giant and beautiful white bull
Cthulhu - Large green body, long tentacles, wings and talons
Cyclopes - Big hairy giants with one eye
Fenrir - Gigantic wolf
Gogmagog - Distorted human-like body and twice the size
Golems - Human-like body made of clay, rock or wood
Grendel - Giant and deformed, troll-like human
Hecatoncheires - Giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms
Hybrids - List of mythical human and animal hybrids
Jersey Devil - Deformed body and head of a horse, horns & wings
Jormungand - Enormous snake with huge fangs and a flat tail
Kelpie - Deadly shape-shifting water horse
Kludde - Gigantic black dog with a blue flame around it’s head
Kongamato - Large bird with teeth, leathery skin and bat-like wings
Kraken - Gigantic squid or octopus
Lernaean Hydra - Serpent with nine heads
Loch Ness Monster - Long neck, large body, flippers and a tail
Mngwa - Oversized and out of control, deadly tabby cat
Mokele-mbembe - Large water creature with a flexible and long neck
Mongolian Death Worm - Enormous, slimy red worm with long fangs
Morgan Le Fay - Human female capable of shape-shifting
Nandi Bear - Overgrown hyena-like beast
Nemean Lion - Super strong lion with impenetrable skin
Ogopogo - Large sea serpent with horns and flippers
Ogre - Large and ugly humanoid with deformed facial features
Orcs - Evil creatures with long fangs, red eyes and long arms
Owlman - Large human sized owl with red glowing eyes
Pegasus - Magnificent winged horse
Phoenix - Multi-colored fire bird
Roc - Gigantic bird with a forked tongue
Shiva - Human form with three eyes and four arms
Sleipnir - Giant eight legged, black horse
Springheeled Jack - Mask wearing monster that breaths blue flame
Stymphalian Bird - Large bird with bronze feathers, metal beak & claws
Talos - Gigantic human-like body made of bronze
Thunderbird - Extremely large bird that could shoot lightening
Unicorn-horse with a horn
Troll-like a large ugly giant
Wyvern: A creature very similar to a dragon except it only has four limbs (2 wings, 2 hind legs) and is smaller in size. Usually the other aspects are the same, although wyverns are generally not characterized as breathing flame.
Jinn: In Arabian and Muslim folklore, jinns are ugly and evil demons having supernatural powers which they can bestow on persons having powers to call them up. In the Western world they are called genies. Legend has it that King Solomon possessed a ring, probably a diamond, with which he called up jinns to help his armies in battle
Pegasus: In Greek mythology, Pegasus is the winged horse that was fathered by Poseidon with Medusa. When her head was cut of by the Greek hero Perseus, the horse sprang forth from her pregnant body. His galloping created the well Hippocrene on the Helicon (a mountain in Boeotia).
Fetch: A wraith or fetch is the disembodied ghost of a living person. They most commonly appear to distant friends and relations at the very moment before the death of those they represent. Fetch-light or fetch candle is a light appearing at night and which supposedly foretells someone’s death.
Nightmare: The nightmare is a ghost or night demon that terrorizes people while they sleep by sitting on their chests and suffocating them. The victim is paralyzed, unable cry out, and aware of a frightening presence in the room. A similar sensation is associated with alien abductions.
Wichtlein: A wichtlein is a mine-fairy, a little creature that haunts mines and announces the grave misfortune or death of a miner by knocking three times. They announce lesser tragedies by making digging and pounding noises. They enjoy throwing small stones at the miners just to tease them, not to hurt them, unless they deserve it. They watch the miners work and imitate them but never do any actual work.
Shadow Cats: A shadow cat is a small filmy creature in the vague form of a domestic house cat. They are believed to be revenants or they may be living cats from another dimension. They can only be seen from the corner of the eye, appearing as a shadow that quickly slips away when you look directly at it. They may also resemble a corporeal cat, but when you see one you’re left thinking you saw something that wasn’t there.
Harpy: A harpy is a vulture with the head and sometimes breasts of a woman. They were originally represented as beautiful winged maidens, then later as fierce creatures who lived in filth and contaminated everything they encountered. They are also depicted as pale hungry bird-creatures with the claws of lions.
Dwarf is a short, stout, stocky and strong humanoid creature in Norse mythology as well as other Germanic mythologies. live underground or in mountainous areas.Generally shorter than humans, they are on average stockier and hairier, usually sporting full beards. Though slow runners and poor riders, dwarves are said to be excellent warriors and defenders of their strongholds. Some myths and games also ascribe to dwarves the ability to forge magical items.
Á Bao A Qu (Malay) - An entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor.
Aatxe (Basque) - A spirit that takes the form of a bull.
Abaasy (Yakuts) - Demons that have teeth of iron.
Abada (African) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo.
Äbädä (Tatar) - Forest spirit.
Abaia (Melanesia) - Huge magical eel.
Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet.
Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal.
Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids.
Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost.
Achlis (Roman) - Curious elk.
Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages.
Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk.
Adhene (Manx) - Nature spirit.
Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit.
Adze (Ewe people) - An African vampiric-forest being.
Aerico (Greek) - Disease demon.
Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story).
Agni (Hindu) - God of fire and sacrifices.
Agathodaemon (Greek) - Spirit of vinefields and grainfields.
Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen.
Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid.
Ahkiyyini (Inuit) - Animated skeleton that causes shipwrecks.
Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid.
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous humanoid with eyes in its instep.
Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat.
Airavata (Hindu) - Divine Elephant.
Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons.
Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit.
Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon.
Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa.
Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster.
Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter.
Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses.
Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid.
Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster.
Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit.
Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world.
Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease.
Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women.
Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon.
Alal (Chaldean) - Demon.
Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children.
Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin.
Aleya (Bengali) - Spirit of a dead fisherman.
Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver.
Alicorn - A winged unicorn from the Latin “ala” (wing) and “corn” (horn).
Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts.
Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid.
Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid.
Al-mi’raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit.
Aloja (Catalan) - Female water spirit.
Alom-bag-winno-sis (Abenaki) - Little people and tricksters.
Alp (German) - Male night-demon.
Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs.
Alp-luachra (Irish) - Parasitic fairy.
Al Rakim (Islamic) - Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers.
Alseid (Greek) - Grove nymph.
Alû (Assyrian) - Leprous demon.
Alux (Mayan) - Little people.
Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku.
Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world.
Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku.
Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon.
Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf.
Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit.
Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag.
Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster.
Ammit (Ancient Egyptian) - Female demon with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile.
Amorōnagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami Ōshima.
Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent.
Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end.
Anakim (Jewish) - Giant.
Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx.
Angel (Christian, Jewish, Islamic traditions) - Divine beings of Heaven who act as mediators between God and humans; the counterparts of Demons.
Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid.
Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit.
Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern and a scythe.
Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture.
Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground.
Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant.
Ao Ao (Guaraní) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep.
Aobōzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children.
Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki.
Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit.
Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid.
Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon.
Argus Panoptes (Greek) - Hundred-eyed giant.
Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers.
Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid.
Arion (Greek) - Extremely swift horse with a green mane and the power of speech.
Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog.
Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon.
Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon.
Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire.
Asena (Turkic) - Blue-maned wolf.
A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant.
Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement.
Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit.
Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit.
Ask-wee-da-eed (Abenaki) - Fire elemental and spectral fire.
Asobibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Kōchi Prefecture.
Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle.
Asrai (English) - Water spirit.
Astomi (Greek) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food.
Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid.
Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature.
Ato-oi-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people.
Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit.
Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph.
Avalerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds.
Awa-hon-do (Abenaki) - Insect spirit.
Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid.
Ayakashi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil.
Ayakashi-no-ayashibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Ishikawa Prefecture.
Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters.
Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides.
Azukibabaa (Japanese) - Bean-grinding hag who devours people.
Azukitogi (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides.
Ba (Egyptian) - Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
Bar Juchne (Abrahamic and Talmudic) - Bird
Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
Bake-kujira (Japanese) - Ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline of Shimane Prefecture
Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon
Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
Baobhan Sith (Celtic Mythology) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers by night
Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
BasCelik (Serbian) - Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk (Italian) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit; a type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Behemoth (Jewish) - Massive beast, possibly like a dinosaur or crocodile
Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration for) the Phoenix
Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giants who live alongside the Hrimthursar (lit. “Rime-Giants”) in Jotunheim
Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Bies (Slavic) - Demon
Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese)- Animated biwa
Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
Blue Crow (Brazilian) - a giant amazonian bird.
Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - bandits
Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirit
Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white; malevolent and black
Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Human/incubus or succubus hybrid
Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
Camulatz (Mayan) - Bird that ate the heads of the first men
Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a particular type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
Čhápa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
Căpcăun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
Carbuncle (Latin America) - Small creature with a jewel on its head
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
Ceffyl Dŵr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
Centicore Indian mythology Indian- Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
Changeling (European) - Humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chickcharney (Bahamian) - Bird-mammal hybrid
Chimbwe (hyena) in Tumbuka (an ethnic group living in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania) mythology
Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghost that causes dust devils
Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
Chōchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savage with dog teeth
Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
Chrysomallus (Greek mythology) - Golden haired winged ram
Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Chupacabra (Latin America) - Cryptid beast, named for its habit of sucking the blood of goats and other livestock
Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghost of women that died in childbirth
Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
Cirein cròin (Scottish) - Sea serpent
Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Cofgod (English) - Cove god
Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
The Cu Bird (Mexican) - El Pájaro Cu; a bird.
Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cuélebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
Cŵn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dog
Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giant
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses’ message
Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
Demon (Global) - From the Greek daemon, evil spirits of Hell mostly seen as minions of the Devil, or Satan; the counterparts of Angels.
Demigod (Global) - Half human, half god.
Dhampir (Balkans) - Human/vampire hybrid
Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
Djinn (Islam) - Genii
Dilong (Chinese) - Earth dragon
Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Drakon (Greek) A snakelike creature with bat wings acidic breath and a paralyzing stare.
Drakaina (Greek) - Dragons depicted with female characteristics
Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) - Fire-breathing and winged (normally)
Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
Drop Bear (Australian) Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
Drude (German) - Possessing demon
Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) - Little people and forest spirits
Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
Dybbuk (Jewish) - A spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka’wakw) - Child-eating hag
Each Uisge (Scottish) – Malevolent water horse
Eachy (English and Scottish) – Humanoid lake monster
Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) – Leadership or guidance totem
Ebu Gogo (Flores) – Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
Edimmu (Sumerian) – Ghosts of those not buried properly
Egbere (Yoruba) – Humanoid that carries a magical mat
Einherjar (Norse) – Spirits of brave warriors
Ekek (Philippine) – Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) – Hags with awls in their elbows
Eldjötnar (Norse) – the Fire Giants who reside in Muspelheim, with Surtr as their leader
Eleionomae (Greek) – Marsh nymph
Elemental (Alchemy) – Personification of one of the Classical elements
‘Elepaio (Hawaiian) – Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
Elf (Germanic) – Nature and fertility spirit
Eloko (Central Africa) – Little people and malevolent nature spirits
Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) – Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
Emere (Yoruba) – Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
Emim (Jewish) – Giant
Empusa (Greek) – Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
Encantado (Brazilian) – Dolphin-human shapeshifter
Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) – Enchanted princesses
Enfield (Heraldic) – Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
Engkanto (Philippine) - neutral nature spirit
Enkō (Japanese) – Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
Epimeliad (Greek) – Apple tree nymph
Erchitu (Sardinia) - Ox-human, wereox
Er Gui (Chinese) – Hungry ghost
Erinyes (Greek) – possibly winged spirits of vengeance or justice. Also known as Furies.
Erlking (German) – Death spirit
Erymanthian Boar (Greek) – Giant boar
Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) – Two-horned, winged horse
Ettin (English) – Three-headed giant
Eurynomos (Greek) – Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
Ewah (Cherokee) - Human-cougar hybrid
Ežerinis (Lithuanian) – Lake spirit
Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
Familiar (English) - Animal servant
Far darrig (Irish) - Little people that constantly play pranks
Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
Feathered Serpent - Mesoamerican dragon
Fenghuang (Chinese) - Chinese Phoenix, female in marriage symbol
Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit
Fenris (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
Fetch (Irish) - Double or doppelgänger
Fext (Slavic) - Undead
Finfolk (Orkney) - Fish-human hybrid that kidnaps humans for servants
Fir Bolg (Irish) - Ancestral race
Fire Bird (Many cultures worldwide) - Regenerative, solar bird
Firedrake (Germanic) - Dragon
Fish-man (Cantabrian) - Amphibious, scaled humanoid
Fomorian (Irish) - Goat-headed giant
Forest Bull (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, red cattle with swiveling horns
Freybug - Norfolk black dog
Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
Funayūrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
Furu-utsubo (Japanese) - Animated jar
Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head
Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar
Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous hound
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gashadokuro (Japanese) - Giant, malevolent skeletons
Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shape shifting desert anthropophagus, often classified as undead.
Giant (Worldwide) - Humanoid creatures of immense size and strength
Giant animal (Worldwide) - Unusually large beasts
Gichi-anami’e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
Goryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
Guffin (American Folklore) - Plant hybrid creatures
Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
Gurumapa (Nepalese) - Child-eating demon
Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gyascutus (American folklore) - Four-legged herbivore
Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
Gyūki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
Habrok (Norse) - the “best” hawk
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Hākuturi (Māori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical 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) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsrå (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
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 the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelmännchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffin and horse, that is 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) - part frog, part mammoth, part lizard, from Native American mythology
Hokhokw (Kwakiutl) - a bird
Hōkō (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
Hō-ō (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hraesvelg (Norse) - a 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
Hugin and Munin (Norse) - Thought and Memory; a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin
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) - Creature with a hundred eyes
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
Iannic-ann-ôd (Breton) - Ghost of a drowned person
Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
Ichchhadhari Nag (Hindu) - shape-shifting 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) - Diminutive, 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 rapist
Indrik (Russian) - One-horned horse-bull hybrid
Indus Worm (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, white, carnivorous worm
Inkanyamba (Zulu) - Horse-headed serpent
Inugami (Japanese) - Dog spirit
Ipotane (Greek) - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged (as opposed to the four-legged centaur)
Ippon-datara (Japanese) - One-legged mountain spirit
Iratxoak (Basque) - Diminutive, 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
Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
Jasy Jaterei (Guaraní) - Nature guardian and bogeyman
Jatayu (Hindu mythology) - A demi-god who has the form of a vulture
Jaud (Slavic) - Vampirised premature baby
Jenglot (Java) - Vampiric little people
Jengu (Sawa) - Water spirit
Jentil (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Jenu (Mi’kmaq) - Anthropophagous giant
Jerff (Swedish) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Jersey Devil (American) - Demonic dragon that was given birth to by an American living in New Jersey
Jian (Chinese) - One-eyed, one-winged bird who requires a mate for survival
Jiangshi (Chinese) - Life-draining, reanimated corpse
Jiaolong (Chinese) - Dragon
Jibakurei (Japanese) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Jievaras (Lithuanian) - House spirit
Jikininki (Japanese) - Corpse-eating ghost
Jinn (Arabian) - Spiritual creatures
Jiufeng (Chinese) - a nine-headed bird worshiped by ancient natives in Hubei Province.
Jiu tou niao (Chinese) - Nine-headed, demonic bird
Jogah (Iroquois) - Little people nature spirit
Jörmungandr (Norse) - Sea serpent
Jorōgumo (Japanese) - Spider woman
Jotai (Japanese) - Animated folding screen cloth
Jötunn (Norse) - Gigantic nature spirits
Jujak (Korean) - A bird
Jumbee (Guyanese) - Malevolent spirit
Kabouter (Dutch) - Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
Kachina (Hopi and Puebloan) - Nature spirit
Kahaku (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kajsa (Scandinavian) - Wind spirit
Kalakeyas (Hindu) - Descendents of Kala
Kallikantzaroi (Greek) - Grotesque, malevolent spirit
Kamaitachi (Japanese) - Wind spirit
Kami (Japanese) - Nature spirit
Kamikiri (Japanese) - Hair-cutting spirit
Kanbari-nyūdō (Japanese) - Bathroom spirit
Kanbo (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Kanedama (Japanese) - Money spirit
Kappa (Japanese) - Little people and water spirits
Kapre (Philippine) - Malevolent tree spirit
Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish) - Troublesome spirit
Karakura (Turkish) - Male night-demon
Karasu-tengu (Japanese) - Tengu with a bird’s bill
Karkadann (Persian) - One-horned giant animal
Karkinos (Greek) - Giant crab
Karura (Japanese) - Eagle-human hybrid
Karzełek (Polish) - Little people and mine spirits
Kasa-obake (Japanese) - Animated parasol
Kasha (Japanese) - Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
Kashanbo (Japanese) - Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
Katawa-guruma (Japanese) - Woman riding on a flaming wheel
Katsura-otoko (Japanese) - Handsome man from the moon
Kaukas (Lithuanian) - Nature spirit
Kawa-uso (Japanese) - Supernatural river otter
Kawa-zaru (Japanese) - Smelly, cowardly water spirit
Keelut (Inuit) - Hairless dog
Kee-wakw (Abenaki) - Anthropophagous giant
Kekkai (Japanese) - Amorphous afterbirth spirit
Kelpie (Irish and Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Ker (Greek) - Female death spirit
Kesaran-pasaran (Japanese) - Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
Keukegen (Japanese) - Disease spirit
Keythong (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Khalkotauroi (Greek) - Bronze-hoofed bulls
Khyah (Nepalese) - Fat, hairy ape-like creature
Kigatilik (Inuit) - Night-demon
Kijimunaa (Japanese) - Tree sprite from Okinawa
Kijo (Japanese) - She-devil
Kikimora (Slavic) - Female house spirit
Killmoulis (English and Scottish) - Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
Kinnara (Hindu) - Human-bird hybrid
Kin-u (Japanese) - a bird
Kirin (Japanese) - Japanese Unicorn
Kishi (Angola) - Malevolent, two-faced seducer
Kitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit
Kitsune-Tsuki (Japanese) - Person possessed by a fox spirit
Kiyohime (Japanese) - Woman who transformed into a serpent-demon out of the rage of unrequited love
Klabautermann (German) - Ship spirit
Knocker (folklore) (Cornish and Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Knucker (English) - Water dragon
Kobalos (Greek) - Shape-shifting thieves and tricksters
Kobold (German) - Little people and mine or house spirits
Kodama (Japanese) - Tree spirit
Kofewalt (Germanic) - House spirit
Ko-gok (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Kokakuchō (Japanese) - Ubume bird
Komainu (Japanese) - Protective animal
Konaki-Jijii (Japanese) - Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
Kongamoto (Congo) - Flying creature
Konoha-tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Koro-pok-guru (Ainu) - Little people
Korrigan (Breton) - Little people and nature spirits
Kraken (Scandinavian) - Sea monster
Krasnoludek (Slavic) - Little people nature spirits
Krasue (Southeast Asian) - Vampiric, floating head
Kuarahy Jára (Guaraní) - Forest spirit
Kubikajiri (Japanese) - Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
Kuchisake-onna (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
Kuda-gitsune (Japanese) - Miniature fox spirit
Kudan (Japanese) - Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity and then dies
Kui (Chinese) - One-legged monster
Kulshedra (Albanian) - Drought-causing dragon
Kumakatok (Philippine) - Death spirits
Kumiho (Korean) - Fox spirit
Kun (Chinese) - Giant fish
Kupua (Hawaiian) - Shapeshifting tricksters
Kurabokko (Japanese) - Guardian spirit of a warehouse
Kurage-no-hinotama (Japanese) - Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
Kurma (Hindu mythology) - the second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
Kurupi (Guaraní) - Wild man and fertility spirit
Kushtaka (Tlingit) - Shapeshifting otter spirit
Kwakwakalanooksiwae (Kwakiutl) - a bird
Kwame (Ghanan religion) - A giggling spirit of the night who kidnaps babies and has sex with livestock.
Kye-ryong (Korean) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Kyourinrin (Japanese) - Animated scroll or paper
Kyūbi-no-kitsune (Japanese) - Nine-tailed fox
Kyūketsuki (Japanese) - Vampire
La-bar-tu (Assyrian) - Disease demon
Labbu (Akkadian) - Sea snake
Lady midday (Slavic) - Sunstroke spirit
Ladon (Greek) - Dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides
Laelaps (Greek) - Enchanted dog that always caught his prey
Laestrygonians (Greek) - Anthropophagic giants
Lakanica (Slavic) - Field spirit
Lake monster (Worldwide) - Gigantic animals reputed to inhabit various lakes around the world
Lakhey (Nepalese) - Demon with fangs
La Llorona (Latin America) - Death spirit associated with drowning
Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
Lambton Worm (English) - Giant worm
Lamia (Greek) - Child-devouring monster
Lamiak (Basque) - Water spirit with bird feet
La Mojana (Colombian) - Shapeshifting, female water spirit
Lampades (Greek) - Underworld nymph
Landvættir (Norse) - Nature spirits
Lares (Roman) - House spirit
La Sayona (Venezuela) - Female ghost that punishes unfaithful husbands
La Tunda (Colombian) - Nature spirit that seduces and kills men
Laukų dvasios (Lithuanian) - Field spirit
Lauma (Baltic) - Sky spirit
Lavellan (Scottish) - Gigantic water rat
Leanan sidhe (Celtic) - Fairy lover
Leanashe (Irish) - Possessing spirit or vampire
Leimakids (Greek) - Meadow nymph
Leokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed lion
Leontophone (Medieval Bestiary) - Tiny animal poisonous to lions
Leprechaun (Irish) - Cobbler spirit
Leszi (Slavic) - Tree spirit
Leuce (Greek) - White poplar tree nymph
Leucrota (Medieval Bestiary) - Hybrid of a lion and crocotta
Leviathan (Jewish) - Sea monster, as seen in Job 41
Leyak (Balinese) - Anthropophagous flying head with entrails
Libyan Aegipanes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-horse hybrid
Libyan Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-goat hybrid
Lidérc (Hungary) - Magical chicken that transforms into a humanoid
Lightning Bird (Southern Africa) - Magical bird that can be found at sites of lightning strikes
Likho (Slavic) - One-eyed hag or goblin
Lilin (Jewish) - Night-demoness
Lilitu (Assyrian) - Winged demon
Limnades (Greek) - Lake nymph
Lindworm (Germanic) - Dragon
Ljósálfar (Norse) - Sunlight spirit
Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Welsh) - Frog-bat-lizard hybrid
Lo-lol (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Lóng - Chinese dragon
Longana (Italian) - Female human-goat hybrid and water spirit
Long Ma (Chinese) - Dragon-horse hybrid
Loogaroo (French America) - Shapeshifting, female vampire
Lorch (North Ozarkan) - Goat/man who rides the “Chariot of Hawking” - Epithets: “Dream killer” and “Grammar Master”[citation needed]
Lou Carcolh (French) - Snake-mollusk hybrid
Loup-garou (French) - Werewolf
Lubber fiend (English) - House spirit
Luduan (Chinese) - Truth-detecting animal
Luison (Guaraní) - Death spirit
Lutin (French) - Amusing goblin
Lynx (Medieval Bestiaries) - Feline guide spirit
Maa-alused (Estonian mythology) - Subterranean spirit
Machlyes (Medieval bestiaries) - Hermaphroditic humanoid
Macrocephali (Medieval bestiaries) - Giant-headed humanoid
Madremonte (Colombian folklore) - Nature guardian
Maero (Māori) - Savage, arboreal humanoids
Magog (English folklore) - Giant protector of London
Maha-pudma (Hindu mythology) - Giant elephant that holds up the world
Mairu (Basque mythology) - Megalith-building giant
Mājas gari (Latvian mythology) - Benevolent house spirit
Makara (Indian mythology) - Aquatic beings
Makura-gaeshi (Japanese mythology) - Pillow-moving spirit
Mami Wata (Africa and the African diaspora) - Supernaturally beautiful water spirits
Manananggal (Philippine mythology) - Vampires that sever their torsos from their legs to fly around
Mandi (Medieval bestiaries) - Humanoid with a forty-year lifespan
Mandrake (Medieval folklore) - Diminutive, animated construct
Manes (Roman mythology) - Ancestral spirits
Mannegishi (Cree) -Little people with six fingers and no noses
Manticore (Persian mythology) - Lion-human-scorpion hybrid
Mapinguari (Brazilian mythology) - Giant sloth
Mara (Scandinavian folklore) - Female night-demon
Marabbecca (Italian folklore) - Malevolent water spirit
Mareikura (Tuamotu) - Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god
Mares of Diomedes (Greek mythology) - Man-eating horses
Marid (Arabian mythology) - Jinn associated with open waters of the seas and oceans
Maro deivės (Lithuanian mythology) - Disease spirits
Martino - A skinny, mischievous demon, with plums for testicles.
Maski-mon-gwe-zo-os (Abenaki mythology) - Shapeshifting toad spirit
Matagot (French mythology) - Spirit that takes animal form; usually that of a black cat
Matsya (Hindu mythology) - first Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a half-fish and half-man
Mayura (Hindu mythology) - Peacock spirit
Mazikeen (Jewish mythology) - Invisible, malevolent spirit
Mbói Tu’ĩ (Guaraní mythology) - Snake-parrot hybrid
Mbwiri (Central Africa) - Possessing demon
Meliae (Greek mythology) - Ash tree nymph
Melusine (Medieval folklore) - Female water spirit, with the form of a winged mermaid or serpent
Menehune (Hawaiian mythology) - Little people and craftsmen
Menninkäinen (Finnish mythology) - Little people and nature spirits
Merlion (Singapore) - Combination of a lion and a fish, the symbol of Singapore
Mermaid (multiple cultures) - Human-fish hybrid
Merrow (Irish mythology and Scottish) - Human-fish hybrid
Metee-kolen-ol (Abenaki mythology) - Ice-hearted wizards
Mimi (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Extremely elongated humanoid that has to live in rock crevasses to avoid blowing away
Minka Bird (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Death spirit
Minokawa (Philippine) - Giant swallow
Minotaur (Greek mythology) - Human-bull hybrid
Mishibizhiw (Ojibwa) - Feline water spirit
Misi-ginebig (Ojibwa) - Serpentine rain spirit
Misi-kinepikw (Cree) - Serpentine rain spirit
Mizuchi (Japanese mythology) - Water dragon
Mogwai (Chinese mythology) - Vengeful ghost or demon
Mohan (Latin American folklore) - Nature spirit
Mokoi (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Malevolent spirit that kills sorcerers
Moñái (Guaraní mythology) - Giant snake with antennae
Monocerus (Medieval bestiaries) - One-horned stag-horse-elephant-boar hybrid, sometimes treated as distinct from the unicorn
Mono Grande (South America) - Giant monkey
Monopod (Medieval bestiaries) - Dwarf with one giant foot
Mooinjer veggey (Manx folklore) - Nature spirit
Mora (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied spirit
Morgens (Breton and Welsh mythology) - Water spirits
Morinji-no-okama (Japanese mythology) - Animated tea kettle
Mormolykeia (Greek) - Underworld spirit
Moroi (Romanian) - Vampiric ghost
Moss people (Continental Germanic mythology) - Little people and tree spirits
Mujina (Japanese mythology) - Shapeshifting badger spirit
Muldjewangk (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Water monster
Muma Pădurii (Romanian folklore) - Forest-dwelling hag
Muscaliet (Medieval bestiaries) - Extremely hot hare-squirrel-boar hybrid
Muse (Greek mythology) - Spirits that inspire artists
Musimon (Heraldic) - Sheep-goat hybrid
Myling (Scandinavian folklore) - Ghosts of unbaptized children
Myrmecoleon (Medieval bestiaries) - Ant-lion hybrid
Nachzehrer (German) - Anthropophagous undead
Nāga (Buddhist and Hindu) - Nature and water spirits, serpentine or human-serpent hybrids
Naga fireballs (Thai) - Spectral fire
Nagual (Mesoamerica) - Human-animal shapeshifter
Naiad (Greek) - Freshwater nymph
Näkki (Finnish) - Water spirit
Namahage (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from the Oga Peninsula
Namazu (Japanese) - Giant catfish whose thrashing causing earthquakes
Nando-baba (Japanese) - Old woman who hides under the floor in abandoned storerooms
Nang Takian (Thai) - Tree spirit
Nanom-keea-po-da (Abenaki) - Earthquake spirit
Napaeae (Greek) - Grotto nymph
Narasimha (Hindu mythology) - Avatar of Vishnu in the form of half-man/half-lion
Narecnitsi (Slavic) - Fate spirit
Nariphon (Thai) - Pod people
Nargun (Gunai) - Water monster
Nasnas (Arabian) - Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body
Nav’ (Slavic) - Ghost
Nawao (Hawaiian) - Savage humanoid
N-dam-keno-wet (Abenaki) - Fish-human hybrid
Neck (Germanic mythology) - Female water spirit
Negret (Catalan) - Little people that turn into coins
Nekomata (Japanese) - Split-tailed magical cat
Nekomusume (Japanese) - Cat in the form of a girl
Nemean Lion (Greek) - Lion with impenetrable skin
Nephilim (Jewish) - Giant
Nereid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Nereus
Ngen (Mapuche) - Nature spirit
Nguruvilu (Mapuche) - Fox-like water snake
Nian (Chinese) - Predatory animal
Nightmarchers (Hawaiian) - Warrior ghosts
Nikusui (Japanese) - Monster which appears as a young woman and sucks all of the flesh off of its victim’s body
Nimerigar (Shoshone) - Aggressive little people
Ningyo (Japanese) - Monkey-fish hybrid
Ninki Nanka (Western Africa) - Large reptile, possibly a dragon
Nisse (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Níðhöggr (Norse) - Dragon
Nivatakavachas (Hindu) - Ocean demon
Nix (Germanic) - Female water spirit
Nobusuma (Japanese) - Supernatural wall. Also a monstrous flying squirrel
Nocnitsa (Slavic) - Nightmare spirit
Noppera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Nozuchi (Japanese) - Small sea serpent
Nuckelavee (Scottish) - Malevolent human-horse-fish hybrid
Nue (Japanese) - Monkey-raccoon dog-tiger-snake hybrid
Nu Gui (Chinese) - Vengeful female ghost
Nukekubi (Japanese) - Disembodied, flying head that attacks people
Nuku-mai-tore (Māori) - Forest spirit
Nuli (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with backwards, eight-toed feet
Numen (Roman) - Tutelary spirit
Nuno (Philippine) - Malevolent little people
Nuppeppo (Japanese) - Animated chuck of dead flesh
Nurarihyon (Japanese) - Head-sized ball-like creature that floats in the sea and teases sailors
Nure-onna (Japanese) - Female monster who appears on the beach
Nurikabe (Japanese) - Spirit that manifests as an impassable, invisible wall
Nyami Nyami (Tonga (Zimbabwean) mythology) - The snake-spirit of the Zambezi River
Nykštukas (Lithuanian) - Cavern spirit
Nymph (Greek) - Nature spirit
Obake (Japanese) - Shapeshifting spirits
Obariyon (Japanese) - Spook which rides piggyback on a human victim and becomes unbearably heavy
Obayifo (Ashanti) - Vampiric possession spirit
Obia (West Africa) - Gigantic animal that serves witches
Oceanid (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Oceanus
Odei (Basque) - Storm spirit
Odmience (Slavic) - Changeling
Og (Jewish) - Giant king of the Amorites
Ogre (Medieval folklore) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Oiwa (Japanese) - Ghost of a woman with a distorted face who was murdered by her husband
Ojáncanu (Cantabrian) - Giant cyclops who embodies evil.
Okiku (Japanese) - Spirit of a plate-counting servant girl, associated with the “Okiku-Mushi” worm
Ōkubi (Japanese) - Death spirit
Okuri-inu (Japanese) - Dog or wolf that follows travelers at night. Similar to the Black dog of English folklore
Ole-Higue (Guyanese) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
Ōmukade (Japanese) - Giant, human-eating centipede that lives in the mountains
Oni (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Onibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire
Onmoraki (Japanese) - Bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly dead corpses
Onocentaur (Medieval Bestiaries) - Human-donkey hybrid
Onoskelis (Greek) - Shapeshifting demon
Onryō (Japanese) - Vengeful ghost that manifests in a physical rather than a spectral form
Onza (Aztec and Latin American folklore) - Wild cat, possibly a subspecies of cougar
Oozlum bird (Unknown origin) - Bird that flies backwards
Ophiotaurus (Greek) - Bull-serpent hybrid
Opinicus (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid, similar to a griffin, but with leonine forelimbs
Orang Bunian (Malay) - Forest spirit
Orang Minyak (Malay) - Spectral rapist
Ördög (Hungarian) - Shapeshifting demon
Oread (Greek) - Mountain nymph
Ork (Tyrolean) - Little people and house spirits
Orobas (European) - Horse-headed, honest oracle classed as a demon
Orphan Bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Peacock-eagle-swan-crane hybrid
Orthrus (Greek) - Two-headed dog
Otso (Finnish) - Bear spirit
Ouroboros (Worldwide) - Mystic serpent/dragon that eats its own tail
Ovinnik (Slavic) - Malevolent threshing house spirit
Paasselkä devils (Finnish) - Spectral fire
Pamola (Abenaki) - Weather spirit
Panes (Greek) - Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
Pandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoid with giant ears, eight fingers and toes, and white hair
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 panther
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
Pelesit (Malay) - Servant spirit
Peluda (French) - Dragon
Penanggalan (Philippine) - 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, the ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death in Thai folklore
Phoenix (Phoenician) - Regenerative bird
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
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
Poukai (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
Pterippus (Greek) - Winged horse
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) - Malevolent house spirit
Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) - Troll-like being with gray skin
Pygmy (Greek) - Little people
Pyrausta (Greek) - Insect-dragon hybrid
Python (Greek) - Serpentine dragon
Qalupalik (Inuit mythology)- Aquatic human abductor
Qareen (Islamic) - Personal demon
Qilin (Chinese) - Dragon-ox-deer hybrid
Qiqirn (Inuit) - Large, bald dog spirit
Qliphoth (Jewish) - Evil spirit
Questing Beast (Arthurian legend) - Serpent-leopard-lion-hart hybrid
Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) - An important god of the Aztec people; name meaning “feathered serpent”.
Quinotaur (Frankish) - Five-horned bull
Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Rabisu (Akkadian) - Vampiric spirit that ambushes people
Radande (Swedish) - Tree spirit
Ragana (Lithuanian) - Malevolent wizard
Raijū (Japanese) - Lightning spirit
Rain Bird (Native American) - Rain spirit
Rainbow crow (Lenape) - Crow spirit
Rainbow Fish (Hindu) - Whale-sized, multi-colored fish
Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) - Snake
Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) - Shapeshifting demon
Ramidreju (Cantabrian) - Extremely long, weasel-like animal
Raróg (Slavic) - Whirlwind spirit
Raven Mocker (Cherokee) - Life-draining spirit
Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) - Trickster spirit
Ratatoskr (Norse) - Squirrel spirit
Redcap (English) - Malevolent, grotesque humanoid
Re’em (Jewish) - Gigantic land animal
Reichsadler (Heraldic) - Eagle, sometimes depicted with two heads
Rephaite (Jewish) - Giant
Reptilian humanoid (Global) - Human-lizard hybrid
Revenant (Medieval folklore) - Reanimated dead
Roc (Arabian and Persian) - Gigantic bird
Rokurokubi (Japanese) - Long-necked, humanoid trickster
Rompo (Africa and India) - Skeletal creature with elements of a rabbit, badger, and bear
Rồng - (Vietnamese) Dragon
Rougarou (French America) - Human-wolf shapeshifter
Rusalka (Slavic) - Female water spirit
Ryū - Japanese dragon
Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
Sagari (Japanese) - Horse’s head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
Samebito (Japanese) - Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea.
Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
Sampaati (Hindu) - brother to the demi-god Jatayu
Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children
Sandwalker (Arabian) - Camel-stealing, giant arthropod
Santelmo (Philippine) - Spirits in a form of fireball, roaming around the forest
Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
Satyr (Greek) - Human-goat hybrid and fertility spirit
Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
Scorpion Man (Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake’s tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
Sewer alligator (American folklore) - Sewer-inhabiting reptile from New York City
Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
Shadow People (American) - Malevolent ghost
Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) - Water spirit
Shen (Chinese) - Shapeshifing sea monster
Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Shinigami (Japanese) - “Death god”
Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost
Shiva (Hindu) - Feminine Ice Goddess
Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak’in), an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to resemble a wolf or hyena
Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Ruler of the Oni
Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
Sileni (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
Siren (Greek) - Human-Fish Hybrid
Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
Skin-walker (Native American) - Animal-human shapeshifter
Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
Sleipnir (Norse) - eight-legged horse
Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
Spearfinger (Cherokee) - Sharp-fingered hag
Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman’s head
Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves
Squonk (American) - Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears
Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person’s legs at night
Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
Suzaku (Japanese) - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird
Svaðilfari (Norse) - unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir
Svartálfar (Norse) - “swart-elves”, Cavern spirit
The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Sylvan (Medieval folklore) - Forest spirit
Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) - African giant
Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) - Reptilian humanoid
Tachash (Jewish) - Large land animal
Taimatsumaru (Japanese) - Tengu surrounded in demon fire
Takam (Persian) - Nature spirit
Taka-onna (Japanese) - Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
Talos (Greek) - Winged giant made of bronze
Tangie (Scottish) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Taniwha (Māori) - Water spirit
Tantankororin (Japanese) - Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
Tanuki (Japanese) - Shapeshifting Raccoon dog
Taotao Mona (Mariana Islands) - Ancestral spirits
Taotie (Chinese) - Greed spirit
Tapairu (Mangaia) - Nature spirit
Tarasque (French) - Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes
Tartalo (Basque) - One-eyed giant
Tartaruchi (Christian) - Demonic punisher
Tatami-tataki (Japanese) - Poltergeist that hits the tatami mats at night
Tatsu - Japanese dragon
Taurokampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed bull
Tavara (Trabzon) - Night-demon
Teju Jagua (Guaraní) - Lizard with seven dog heads
Tecumbalam (Mayan) - a bird
Tengu (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Tennin (Japanese) - Angelic humanoid
Te-no-me (Japanese) - Ghost of a blind man, with his eyes on his hands
Tepegoz (Azerbaijani) - an Azerbaijani mythical creature similar to the cyclops Polyphemus
Terrible Monster (Jewish) - Lion-eagle-scorpion hybrid made from the blood of murder victims
Teumessian Fox (Greek) - Gigantic fox
Theriocephalus (Medieval folklore) - Animal-headed humanoid
Three-legged bird (Asia and Africa) - Solar bird
Thunderbird (Native American) - Avian lightning spirit, bird
Tiangou (Chinese) - Meteoric dog
Tianlong (Chinese) - Celestial dragon
Tibicena (Canarian) - Evil Dog
Tiddy Mun (English) - Bog spirit
Tigmamanukan (Philippine) - an Asian fairy bluebird believed in as part of Philippine mythology
Tikbalang (Philippine) - Anthropomorphic horse
Tikoloshe (Zulu) - Little people and water spirit
Timingila (Hindu) - Sea monster
Tipua (Māori) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Titan (Greek) - Giant
Tiyanak (Philippine) - Malevolent spirit in the form of a human infant
Tizheruk (Inuit) - Sea serpent
Tlahuelpuchi (Tlaxcalan) - Shapeshifting vampire
Tōfu-kozō (Japanese) - Spirit child carrying a block of tofu
Toire-no-Hanakosan (Japanese) - Ghost who lurks in grade school restroom stalls
Tomte (Scandinavian) - House spirit
Topielec (Slavic) - Water spirit
Tōtetsu (Japanese) - Greed spirit
Toyol (Malay) - Servant spirit
Trasgo (Spanish and Portuguese) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Trauco (Chilota) - Fertility spirit
Trenti (Cantabrian) - Diminutive demon
Tripurasura (Hindu) - Demonic inhabitants of Tripura
Tritons (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
Troll (Norse) - Nature spirit
Trow (Orkney and Shetland) - Little people and nature spirits
Tsi-noo (Abenaki) - Vampiric demon
Tsuchigumo (Japanese) - Shapeshifting, giant spider
Tsuchinoko (Japanese) - Plump snake-like creature
Tsukumogami (Japanese) - Inanimate object that becomes animated after existing for 100 years
Tsul ‘Kalu (Cherokee) - Giant nature spirit
Tsurara-onna (Japanese) - Icicle woman
Tsurube-otoshi (Japanese) - Monster which drops or lowers a bucket from the top of a tree to catch people
Tugarin Zmeyevich (Slavic) - Evil shapeshifter
Tylwyth Teg (Welsh) - Nature spirit
Tupilaq (Inuit) - Animated construct
Turehu (Māori) - Pale spirit
Turul (Hungarian) - a giant falcon that helped shape the origins of the Magyars
Typhon (Greek) - Winged, snake-legged giant
Tzitzimitl (Aztec) - Skeletal star spirit
Ubume (Japanese) - Ghosts of women who died in childbirth
Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) - Horse’s leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby
Umibōzu (Japanese) - Ghost of drowned priest
Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) - Female sea monster who steals fish
Undead (Worldwide) - Dead that behave as if alive
Underwater panther (Native American) - Feline water spirit
Undine (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Unhcegila (Lakota) - Dragon
Unicorn (Medieval Bestiaries) - Horse with magical healing horn.
Unktehi (Lakota) - Serpentine rain spirit
Unktehila (Lakota) - Reptilian water monster
Upinis (Lithuanian) - River spirit
Urayuli (Native American) - Hairy giant
Uriaş (Romanian) - Giant
Urmahlullu (Mesopotamian) - Lion-human hybrid guardian spirit
Ushi-oni (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
Utukku (Akkadian) - ″Underworld messenger spirit″
Uwan (Japanese) - Spirit that shout to surprise people
Vadātājs (Latvian) - Spirit that misleads people
Vættir (Norse) - Nature spirit
Valkyrie (Norse) - Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla
Vâlvă (Romanian) - Female nature spirit
Valravn (Danish) - Supernatural raven
Vampire (Slavic) - Reanimated corpse that subsists on blood
Vanara (Hindu) - Human-ape hybrid
Vântoase (Romanian) - Female weather spirit
Varaha (Hindu mythology) - third Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a boar
Vârcolac (Romanian) - Vampire or werewolf
Vardøger (Scandinavian) - Ghostly double
Vedrfolnir (Norse) - a hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of Yggdrasill, the World Tree
Veļi (Latvian) - Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human
Věri Şělen - Chuvash dragon
Vetala (Hindu) - Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits
Víbria (Catalan) - Dragon with breasts and an eagle’s beak
Vielfras (German) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Vila (Slavic) - Weather spirit
Vilkacis (Latvian) - Animalistic, werewolf-like monster
Viruñas (Colombian) - Handsome demon
Vision Serpent (Mayan) - Mystical dragon
Víðópnir, (Norse) - Rooster that sits atop the tree
Vodyanoy (Slavic) - Male water spirit
Vrykolakas (Greek) - Undead wolf-human hybrid
Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit
Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) - Water spirits
Wani (Japanese)- A crocodilian water monster
Wanyūdō (Japanese) - Demon in the form of a burning ox cart with a human head
Warak ngendog (Indonesian Muslim) - Egg-laying bird
Warg (English and Scandinavian O.N. vargr) - Giant, demonic wolf
Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) - Aurora spirits
Water monkey (Chinese) - Water spirit
Water sprite (Alchemy) - Water elemental
Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) - Goanna spirits
Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) - Shapeshifting snail spirit
Weisse Frauen (German) - Female spirit
Wekufe (Mapuche) - Demon
Wendigo (Algonquian) - Anthropophagous spirit
Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) - Water spirit
Werecat (Worldwide) - Feline-human shapeshifter
Werehyena (Africa) - Hyena-human shapeshifter
Werewolf (Worldwide) - Wolf-human shapeshifter
White Lady (Worldwide) - Ghost of a murdered or mistreated woman
Wild man (European) – Hairy, bipedal man-like creature
Will-o’-the-Wisp (Worldwide) - Spectral fire
Wirry-cow (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Witte Wieven (Dutch) - Female, ancestral spirit
Wolpertinger (German) - a forest animal comprised from various animal parts (similar to a Chimera)
Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) - Weather spirit
Wraith (Scottish) - Water spirit or ghostly apparition
Wulver (Scottish) - Wolf-headed human
Wu Tou Gui (Chinese) - Beheaded ghost
Wyrm - English dragon
Wyvern (Germanic Heraldic) - Flying reptile, usually with two legs and two wings
Xana (Asturian) - Female water spirit
Xecotcovach (Mayan) - a bird
Xelhua (Aztec) - Giant
Xing Tian (Chinese) - Headless giant
Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) - Drought spirit
Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster
Yadōkai (Japanese) - Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
Yagyō-san (Japanese) - Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
Yaksha (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Male nature spirit
Yakshi (Keralite) - Vampire
Yakshini (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Female nature spirit
Yakubyō-gami (Japanese) - Disease and misfortune spirit
Yale (Medieval Bestiaries) - Antelope- or goat-like animal with swiveling horns
Yali (Hindu) - Lion-like beast
Yallery-Brown (English) - Nature spirit
Yama-biko (Japanese) - Echo spirit
Yama-bito (Japanese) - Savage, mountain-dwelling humanoid
Yama-chichi (Japanese) - Monkey-like mountain spirit
Yama-inu (Japanese) - Dog-like mountain spirit
Yama-otoko (Japanese) - Mountain giant
Yamata no Orochi (Japanese) - Gigantic, eight-headed serpent
Yama-uba (Japanese) - Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag
Yama-waro (Japanese) - Hairy, one-eyed spirit
Yanari (Japanese) - Spirit which causes strange noises
Yaoguai (Japanese) - Animalistic demon
Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) - Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
Yatagarasu (Japanese) - Three-legged crow of Amaterasu
Yato-no-kami (Japanese) - Serpent spirits
Yeth hound (English) - Headless dog
Yeti (Himalayan) - Mountain Bigfoot
Yilbegän (Turkic) - Either a dragon or a giant
Yobuko (Japanese) - Mountain dwelling spirit
Yōkai (Japanese) - Supernatural Monster
Yomotsu-shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Yong - Korean dragon
Yōsei (Japanese) - Fairy
Yosuzume (Japanese) - Mysterious bird that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near
You Hun Ye Gui (Chinese) - Wandering ghost
Yowie (Australian Aboriginal) - Nocturnal human-ape hybrid, also Yahoo
Ypotryll (Heraldic) - Boar-camel-ox-serpent hybrid
Yuan Gui (Chinese) - Distressed ghost
Yukinko (Japanese) - Childlike snow spirit
Yuki-onna (Japanese) - Snow spirit
Yūrei (Japanese) - Ghost
Yuxa (Tatar) - 100-year-old snake that transforms into a beautiful human
Zahhak (Persian) - Dragon
Žaltys (Baltic) - Serpentine fertility spirit
Zamzummim (Jewish) - Giant
Zână (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) - House spirit
Zburator (Romanian) - Wolf-headed dragon
Zduhać (Slavic mythology) - Disembodied, heroic spirit
Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) - Rain-making dragon
Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic) - Glowing bird
Zhulong (Chinese) - Pig-headed dragon
Zhū Què (Chinese) - Fire elemental bird
Žiburinis (Lithuanian) - Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton
Zilant (Tatar) - Flying reptile with chicken legs
Zin (West Africa) - Water spirits
Ziz (Jewish) - Giant Bird
Zlatorog (Slovenia) - White deer with golden horns
Zmeu (Romanian folklore) - Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls
Zmiy - Slavic dragon
Zombie (Vodou/Worldwide) - Re-animated corpse
Zorigami (Japanese) - Animated clock
Zuijin (Japanese) - Tutelary spirit
Zunbera-bō (Japanese) - Faceless ghost
Hämarik (Estonian) - personification of dusk, a beautiful young maiden
Koit - personification of Dawn, a young man, eternal lover of Hämarik
Ilmarine, Ilmasepp (Estonian) - a mythical blacksmith who forged among other things the Sun and the Moon (cf. Ilmarinen)
Ilmaneitsi, Ilmatütar (Estonian)- Air Maiden, Sky Maiden
Järvevana (Estonian) - Old Man from the Lake who wants to drown and claim the capital city of Estonia when it gets ready.
Kaevukoll (Estonian)- bogeyman of the well
Kratt (Estonian)- a demon who stole and brought food, money and other worldly goods to its maker and owner in the form of a whirlwind or meteor-like tail of fire (also called pisuhänd, tulihänd, hännamees)
Murueit (Estonian)- a female spirit of forest and earth, connected to the land of the dead
Vanemuine (Estonian) - the god of songs, art and literature

List of attitudes, facial expressions, feelings:

accusatory-charging of wrong doing
apathetic-indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
awe-solemn wonder
bitter-exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
cynical-questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
condescension; condescending-a feeling of superiority
callous-unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others
contemplative-studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
critical-finding fault
choleric-hot-tempered, easily angered
contemptuous-showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect
caustic-intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
conventional-lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality
disdainful-scornful
didactic-author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
derisive-ridiculing, mocking
earnest-intense, a sincere state of mind
erudite-learned, polished, scholarly
fanciful-using the imagination
forthright-directly frank without hesitation
gloomy-darkness, sadness, rejection
haughty-proud and vain to the point of arrogance
indignant-marked by anger aroused by injustice
intimate-very familiar
judgmental-authoritative and often having critical opinions
jovial-happy
lyrical-expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like
matter-of-fact--accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
mocking-treating with contempt or ridicule
morose-gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
malicious-purposely hurtful
objective-an unbiased view-able to leave personal judgments aside
optimistic-hopeful, cheerful
obsequious-polite and obedient in order to gain something
patronizing-air of condescension
pessimistic-seeing the worst side of things; no hope
quizzical-odd, eccentric, amusing
ribald-offensive in speech or gesture
reverent-treating a subject with honor and respect
ridiculing-slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of
reflective-illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
sarcastic-sneering, caustic
sardonic-scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
satiric-ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
sincere-without deceit or pretense; genuine
solemn-deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
sanguineous -optimistic, cheerful
whimsical-odd, strange, fantastic; fun
Affectionate
Freedom
Responsive
Acceptance
Friendly
Responsible
Aspiring
Focused
Self-confident
Ambitious
Frugal
Self-directed
Motivated
Generous
Self-disciplined
Candid
Goodwill
Self-esteem
Caring
Grateful
Self-giving
Change
Hard working
Self-reliant
Embraces
Honest
Selfless
Cheerful
Humble
Sensitive
Considerate
Interested
Serious
Thoughtful
Involved
Sincere
Cooperative
Not jealous
Social independence
Courageous
Kind
Sympathetic
Gloomy
Mature
Accepts others points of view
Decisive
Open minded
Thoughtful towards others
Devoted
Tolerant Trusting
Determined
Optimistic
Unpretentiousness
Perseverance
Positive
Unselfish
Endurance
Practical
Willingness
Enthusiastic
Punctual
Work-oriented
Expansive
Realistic
Faith
Reliable
Flexible
Distant
Affected
Lazy
Aloof
Lying
Malice
Arrogant
Mean
Authoritarian
Miserly
Callous
Mistrusting
Cheerless
Narrow
Closed
Negative
Cold
Not viable
Combative
Complacement
Petty
Conceited
Pretentious
Constricted
Random
Controlling
Rebellious
Convenience
Rejects change
Covetous
Relents
Cowering
Reluctant
Cruel
Resentful
Deceiving
Rigid
Dependent
Rude
Directed by externals
Scattered
Dishonest
Secretive
Disorderly
Self-centered
Disorganized
Self-satisfied
Distant
Selfish
Ego-centric
Small minded
Envious
Social approval required
Fearful
Sour
Flagging
Unresponsive
Fleeting
Unrestrained
Gives up
Unsure
Grumpy
Unsustaining
Guarded
Unsympathetic
Hatred
Untrusting
Hostile
Unwilling
Ill-will Vain
Immature
Wasteful
Impolite
Impractical
Inconsiderate
Indecisive
Indifferent
Indulgent
Inflexible
Insecure
Insensitive
Insincere
Insists on own view
Jealous
Lack of faith in others
Lack of faith in self
Lack of self confidence Late
Explosive
Short tempered
Confidence
Interest
Independent
Courteous
Gratitude
Inferiority
Frankness
Respectful
Authority
Persistent
Faithful
Trusting
Loving
Satisfaction
Modest
Cautious
Suspicious
Helping
Hardworking
Inclusiveness
Tenacity
Adventurous
Authentic
Collaborative
Compassionate
Curious
Creative
Defiant
Dependable
Discouraging
Empowered
Forgiving
Harmonic
Humorous
Impatient
Intolerant
Learning
Nurturing
Patient
Presumptuous
Productive
Rebellious
Respectful
Risky
Rude
Self centred
Trustful
Unaccepting
Uncooperative
Uncompromising
Absent: preoccupied
Agonized: as if in pain or tormented
Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest
Beatific: see blissful
Bilious: ill-natured
Black: angry or sad, or see hostile
Bleak: see grim and hopeless
Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern
Blissful: showing a state of happiness or divine contentment
Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
Brooding: see anxious and gloomy
Bug eyed: frightened or surprised
Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
Cheeky: cocky, insolent
Cheerless: sad
Choleric: hot-tempered, irate
Coy: flirtily playful, or evasive
Crestfallen: see despondent
Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings
Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
Dejected: see despondent
Derisive: see sardonic
Despondent: depressed or discouraged
Doleful: sad or afflicted
Dour: stern or obstinate; see also despondent
Downcast: see despondent
Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing
Ecstatic: delighted or entranced
Etched: see fixed
Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
Fixed: concentrated or immobile
Furtive: stealthy
Gazing: staring intently
Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive
Glaring: see hostile
Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
Gloomy: see despondent and sullen
Glowering: annoyed or angry
Glowing: see radiant
Grim: see despondent; also, fatalistic or pessimistic
Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty
Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit
Impassive: see deadpan
Inscrutable: mysterious, unreadable
Jeering: insulting or mocking
Languid: lazy or weak
Leering: see meaningful; also, sexually suggestive
Meaningful: to convey an implicit connotation or shared secret
Mild: easygoing
Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful
Moody: see sullen
Pained: affected with discomfort or pain
Pallid: see wan
Peering: with curiosity or suspicion
Peeved: annoyed
Petulant: see cheeky and peeved
Pitying: sympathetic
Pleading: seeking apology or assistance
Pouting: see sullen
Quizzical: questioning or confused
Radiant: bright, happy
Roguish: see mischievous
Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident
Sardonic: mocking
Scornful: contemptuous or mocking
Scowling: displeased or threatening
Searching: curious or suspicious
Set: see fixed
Shamefaced: ashamed or bashful
Slack-jawed: dumbfounded or surprised
Sly: cunning; see also furtive and mischievous
Snarling: surly
Sneering: see scornful
Somber: see grave
Sour: unpleasant
Stolid: inexpressive
Straight-faced: see deadpan
Sulky: see sullen
Sullen: resentful
Taunting: see jeering
Taut: high-strung
Tense: see taut
Tight: see pained and taut
Unblinking: see fixed
Vacant: blank or stupid looking
Veiled: see inscrutable
Wan: pale, sickly; see also faint
Wary: cautious or cunning
Wide eyed: frightened or surprised
Wild eyed: excited, frightened, or stressful
Wistful: yearning or sadly thoughtful
Withering: devastating; see also wrathful
Woeful: full of grief or lamentation
Wolfish: see leering and mischievous
Wrathful: indignant or vengeful
Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling
grimace
pain stricken
crestfallen
appalled
weary
grave
irked
pallid
petulant
lucid
doleful
famished
cherubic
urbane
comely
dour
tepid
stolid
scornful
blissful
alive
dreamy
enraged
delirious
confused
elated
lustful
envious
cheeky
tasting a lemon
curious
surprised
bashful
determined
flabbergasted
pissy
lazy
“lit”
flirty
snobby
mental
sadistic
submissive
ecstasy
on ecstasy
nonchalant
sweet
scared
wistful
nervous
strong
fierce
shy
shocked
clever
agony
relaxed
coy
happy
peaceful
naughty
Anger
Concentration
Confusion
Contempt
Desire
Disgust
Excitement
Fear
Frustration
Glare
Happiness
Sadness
Snarl
Surprise
bamboozled
sour
high
open
alive
good
understanding
great
playful
calm
confident
gay
courageous
peaceful
reliable
joyous
energetic
at ease
easy
lucky
liberated
comfortable
amazed
fortunate
optimistic
pleased
free
delighted
provocative
encouraged
sympathetic
overjoyed
impulsive
clever
interested
gleeful
free
surprised
satisfied
thankful
frisky
content
receptive
important
animated
quiet
accepting
festive
spirited
certain
kind
ecstatic
thrilled
relaxed
satisfied
wonderful
serene
glad
free and easy
cheerful
bright
sunny
blessed
merry
reassured
elated
jubilant
LOVE
INTERESTED
POSITIVE
STRONG
loving
concerned
eager
impulsive
considerate
affected
keen
free
affectionate
fascinated
earnest
sure
sensitive
intrigued
intent
certain
tender
absorbed
anxious
rebellious
devoted
inquisitive
inspired
unique
attracted
nosy
determined
dynamic
passionate
snoopy
excited
tenacious
admiration
engrossed
enthusiastic
hardy
warm
curious
bold
secure
touched
brave
sympathy
daring
close
challenged
loved
optimistic
comforted
re-enforced
drawn toward
confident
hopeful
ANGRY
DEPRESSED
CONFUSED
HELPLESS
irritated
lousy
upset
incapable
enraged
disappointed
doubtful
alone
hostile
discouraged
uncertain
paralyzed
insulting
ashamed
indecisive
fatigued
sore
powerless
perplexed
useless
annoyed
diminished
embarrassed
inferior
upset
guilty
hesitant
vulnerable
hateful
dissatisfied
shy
empty
unpleasant
miserable
stupefied
forced
offensive
detestable
disillusioned
hesitant
bitter
repugnant
unbelieving
despair
aggressive
despicable
skeptical
frustrated
resentful
disgusting
distrustful
distressed
inflamed
abominable
misgiving
woeful
provoked
terrible
lost
pathetic
incensed
in despair
unsure
tragic
infuriated
sulky
uneasy
in a stew
cross
bad
pessimistic
dominated
worked up
a sense of loss
tense
boiling
fuming
indignant
INDIFFERENT
AFRAID
HURT
SAD
insensitive
fearful
crushed
tearful
dull
terrified
tormented
sorrowful
nonchalant
suspicious
deprived
pained
neutral
anxious
pained
grief
reserved
alarmed
tortured
anguish
weary
panic
dejected
desolate
bored
nervous
rejected
desperate
preoccupied
scared
injured
pessimistic
cold
worried
offended
unhappy
disinterested
frightened
afflicted
lonely
lifeless
timid
aching
grieved
shaky
victimized
mournful
restless
heartbroken
dismayed
doubtful
agonized
threatened
appalled
cowardly
humiliated
quaking
wronged
menaced
alienated
wary
accepted, accomplished, aggravated, alone, amused, angry, annoyed, anxious, apathetic, ashamed, awake, bewildered, b*tchy, bittersweet, blah, blank, blissful, bored, bouncy, calm, cheerful, chipper, cold, confused, content, cranky, crappy, crazy, crushed, curious, cynical, dark, depressed, determined, devious, dirty, disappointed, discontent, ditsy, dorky, drained, drunk, ecstatic, energetic, enraged, enthralled, envious, excited, exhausted, flirty, frustrated, full, geeky, giddy, giggly, gloomy, good, grateful, groggy, grumpy, guilty, happy, high, hopeful, hot, hungry, hyper, impressed, indescribable, indifferent, infuriated, irate, irritated, jealous, jubilant, lazy, lethargic, listless, lonely, loved, mad, melancholy, mellow, mischievous, moody, morose, naughty, nerdy, numb, okay, optimistic, peaceful, pessimistic, pissed off, please, predator, quixotic, recumbent, refreshed, rejected, rejuvenated, relaxed, relieved, restless, rushed, sad, satisfied, shocked, sick, silly, sleepy, smart, stressed, surprised, sympathetic, thankful, tired, touched, uncomfortable, weird.

Professions and activities list:

Aquatics
Archery
Automobile Racing
Badminton
Base Jumping
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Biathlon
Bobsleigh
Bocce Ball
Body Building
Boomerang
Bowling
Boxing
Bull Fighting
Camping
Canoeing
Caving
Cheerleading
Chess
Classical Dance
Cricket
Cross Country Running
Cross Country Skiing
Curling
Cycling
Darts
Decathlon
Diving
Dog Sledding
Dog Training
Down Hill Skiing
Equestrianism
Falconry
Fencing
Figure Skating
Fishing
Flag Football
Foosball
Football
Fox Hunting
Golf
Gymnastics
Hand Ball
Hang Gliding
High Jump
Hiking
Hockey
Horseshoes
Hot Air Ballooning
Hunting
Ice Skating
Inline Skating
Jai Alai
Judo
Karate
Kayaking
Knee Boarding
Lacrosse
Land Sailing
Log Rolling
Long Jump
Luge
Modern Dance
Modern Pentathlon
Motorcycle Racing
Mountain Biking
Mountaineering
Netball
Paint Ball
Para Gliding
Parachuting
Petanque
Pool Playing
Power Walking
Quad Biking
Racquetball
Remote Control Boating
River Rafting
Rock Climbing
Rodeo Riding
Roller Skating
Rowing
Rugby
Sailing
Scuba Diving
Shooting
Shot Put
Shuffleboard
Skateboarding
Skeet Shooting
Snooker
Snow Biking
Snow Boarding
Snow Shoeing
Snow Sledding
Soccer
Sombo
Speed Skating
Sport Fishing
Sport Guide
Sprint Running
Squash
Stunt Plane Flying
Sumo Wrestling
Surfing
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tchoukball
Tennis
Track and Field
Trampolining
Triathlon
Tug of War
Volleyball
Water Polo
Water Skiing
Weight Lifting
Wheelchair Basketball
White Water Rafting
Wind Surfing
Wrestling
Wushu
Yachting
Yoga
Hazmat diver-Kind of like scuba diving in hell: hazmat divers regularly swim through toxic sewage dumps, oil spills and other forms of hazardous waste.
Medical waste biohazard cooker
Crime scene investigator
Corpse flower gardener- Corpse flowers grow taller than human bodies and give off a pungent stench, similar to that of rotting flesh.
Catching mosquitoes
floating in space
Crime scene cleaner
Hot-zone janitor- suit up with super-gear and venture into labs festering with deadly airborne viruses.
Snake venom extractor
Actuary
Biomedical Engineer
Software Engineer
Audiologist
Financial Planner
Dental Hygienist
Occupational Therapist
Optometrist
Physical Therapist
Computer Systems Analyst
Chiropractor
Speech Pathologist
Physiologist
University Professor
Veterinarian
Dietician
Pharmacist
Mathematician
Sociologist
Statistician
Physicist
Optician
Podiatrist
Web Developer
Historian
Environmental Engineer
Parole Officer
Petroleum Engineer
Meteorologist
Geologist
Human Resources Manager
Civil Engineer
Orthodontist
Respiratory Therapist
Medical Records Technician
Astronomer
Psychiatrist
Computer Programmer
Social And Community Manager
Market Research Analyst
Paralegal Assistant
Dentist
Skincare Specialist
Industrial Machine Repairer
Physician (General Practice)
Logistician
Management Consultant
Social Worker
Physician Assistant
Surgeon
Vocational Counselor
Bricklayer
Surveyor
Nurse (Registered)
Archeologist
Museum Curator
Psychologist
Glazier
Technical Writer
Architect
Event Coordinator
Occupational Safety/Health Inspector
Loan Officer
Nuclear Decontamination Technician
Plumber
Medical Technologist
Stenographer/Court Reporter
Recruiter
Biologist
Bookkeeper
Medical Laboratory Technician
Insurance Underwriter
Public Relations Executive
Executive Assistant
Electrician
Automobile Body Repairer
Insurance Agent
Judge
Nuclear Engineer
Online Sales Manager
Mechanical Engineer
Hair Stylist
Communications Equipment Mechanic
Tax Examiner/Collector
Receptionist
Sewage Plant Operator
Librarian
Industrial Designer
School Principal
Zoologist
Anthropologist
Elementary School Teacher
Construction/Building Inspector
Pest Control Worker
Emergency Medical Technician
Industrial Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Nurse (Licensed Practical)
Aerospace Engineer
Teacher’s Aide
Construction Foreman
Automobile Mechanic
Stockbroker
Security Guard
Fitness Trainer/Instructor
Chauffeur
Truck Driver
Purchasing Agent
Clergy
Typist/Word Processor
Forklift Operator
Computer Service Technician
Architectural Drafter
Appliance Repairer
Funeral Director
Attorney
Ironworker
Economist
Sales Representative (Wholesale)
Recreation Worker
Agricultural Scientist
Animal Care And Service Worker
Advertising Account Executive
Construction Machinery Operator
Chemist
Purchasing Manager
Broadcast Technician
Airline Pilot
Nurse’s Aide
Medical Secretary
Electrical Technician
Conservationist
Machinist
Advertising Salesperson
Dental Laboratory Technician
Child Care Worker
Film/Video Editor
Furniture Upholsterer
Salesperson (Retail)
Jeweler
Choreographer
Drill-Press Operator
Machine Tool Operator
Sheet Metal Worker
Taxi Driver
Carpenter
Artist
Aircraft Mechanic
Bartender
Electrical Equipment Repairer
Real Estate Agent
Janitor
Engineering Technician
Corporate Executive (Senior)
Author
Bus Driver
Welder
Hotel Manager
Garbage Collector
Stationary Engineer
Bank Teller
Seaman
Carpet/Tile Installer
Shipping/Receiving Clerk
Police Officer
Firefighter
Publication Editor
Cashier
Air Traffic Controller
Construction Worker
Photographer
Seamstress/Tailor
Painter
Automobile Assembler
Precision Assembler
Buyer
Dockworker
Disc Jockey
Military General
Maid
Fashion Designer
Butcher
Broadcaster
Waiter/Waitress
Tax Preparer
Dishwasher
Photojournalist
Corrections Officer
Farmer
Flight Attendant
Roofer
Mail Carrier
Meter Reader
Dairy Farmer
Oil Rig Worker
Actor
Enlisted Military Personnel
Lumberjack
Reporter (Newspaper)
submarine cook
space pilot
space alien trafficker
Spaceport traffic control (also, on-orbit traffic control, Earth and lunar)
Space communications specialist
Space Construction and Repair Specialist
Nuclear and solar power engineers
Brain Analysts
Space Tourist
Space Tour Guide
Astronaut
Alien
Astrogator
Clone
Colonist
Genetic Engineer
Gunner
Space marine
Starship crew
Starship engineer
Starship navigator
Starship pilot
Superhuman
Telepath
Xenoarchaeologist
Xenobiologist
Xenobotanist
Alchemist
Animal handler
Apothecary
Architect
Archer
Aristocrat
Armorer
Artisan
Astrologer
Baker
Banker
Barbarian
Bard
Barkeep
Barmaid
Beekeeper
Beer seller
Beggar
Blacksmith
Boatman
Bookbinder
Bookseller
Brewer
Brothel keeper
Buckle maker
Builder
Butcher
Caravan Leader
Carpenter
Cartographer
Chandler
Charioteer
Chatelaine
Chef
Chieftain
Chirurgeon
Clergy
Clerk
Clock maker
Clothworker
Commander
Concubine
Cook
Cooper
Copyist
Counselor
Courtesan
Courtier
Cowherd
Crossbowman
Cutler
Daimyo
Dairymaid
Diplomat
Distiller
Diver
Diviner
Domestic servant
Emperor/Empress
Eunuch
Explorer
Farmer
Fighter
Fisherman
Fishmonger
Footman
Furrier
Galley slave
Gardener
Geisha
Gladiator
Glovemaker
Groom
Guildmaster
Harness maker
Hatmaker
Hay merchant
Healer
Hearthwitch
Herald
Herbalist
Herder
Hermit
Highwayman
Hunter
Illuminator
Innkeeper
Interpreter
Inventor
Jailer
Jester
Jeweler
Jongleur
Judge
King
Knight
Laborer
Lady
Lady in Waiting
Leatherworker
Locksmith
Longbowman
Lord
Maidservant
Majordomo
Man at Arms
Mason
Masseur
Mercer
Merchant
Messenger
Midwife
Miller
Miner
Minstrel
Monk
Mortician
Mourner
Necromancer
Noble
Nun
Nurse
Old-clothes seller
Page
Painter
Pariah
Pastry cook
Peasant
Perfumer
Philosopher
Physician
Pigkeeper
Pilgrim
Plasterer
Potter
Priest/ess
Prince/ss
Professor
Pursemaker
Queen
Ranger
Ratcatcher
Ronin
Roofer
Ropemaker
Royal Adviser
Rugmaker
Ruler
Sailor
Samurai
Scabbard maker
Sculptor
Saddler
Scavenger
Scholar
Scrivener
Servant
Shaman
Shepherd
Ship’s captain
Shoemaker
Silversmith
Slave
Slaver
Smith
Soldier
Sorcerer/Sorceress
Spice Merchant
Squire
Stablehand
Storyteller
Steward
Street kid
Surveyor
Swordsman
Sycophant
Tailor
Tanner
Tavernkeeper
Tax collector
Teamster
Thatcher
Thief
Torturer
Town Crier
Trapper
Vendor
Vermin catcher
Village chief
Vintner
Viking
Warlock
Warrior
Water carrier
Weaver
Wetnurse
Wine seller
Witch
Wizard
Woodcarver
Woodcutter
Wood seller
Accountant
Actuary
Advertising executive
Airline pilot
Airplane test pilot
Ambassador
Ambulance driver
Anthropologist
Appliance repairman
Archaeologist
Architect
Astrologer
Astronomer
Athlete
Attorney
Auctioneer
Auditor
Author
Auto mechanic
Babysitter
Baker
Bank president
Bank robber
Barber
Baseball player
Basketball player
Beautician
Bishop
Bookkeeper
Boxer
Bricklayer
Bum
Bus driver
Butcher
Cake decorator
Car salesman
Carpenter
Cartographer
Cashier
Cat burglar
CEO
Chef
Chemist
Chiropractor
Circus performer
Clerk typist
Clergyman
Clown
College professor
Company President
Computer hacker
Computer programmer
Computer repairman
Construction worker
Correctional officer
Counselor
Cowboy
Dance teacher
Dancer
Daycare operator
Dental hygienist
Dentist
Designer
Detective
Dictator
Dietitian
Diplomat
Director
Dishwasher
Disk jockey
Ditchdigger
Diver
Doctor
Gynecologist
Pediatrician
Podiatrist
Proctologist
Surgeon
Economist
Editor
Electrician
Elevator operator
Aerospace Engineer
ChemicalEngineer
Civil Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Field Engineer
Industrial Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
Metallurgical Engineer
Nuclear Engineer
Farmer
FBI Agent
Fighter pilot
Filmmaker
Firefighter
Fisherman
Football player
Forester
Funeral Director
Garbage man (sanitary engineer)
Gardener
Gas station attendant
General
Geographer
Geologist
Geophysicist
Golfer
Government Inspector
Graphic designer
Grocer
Gymnast
Handyman
Helicopter pilot
High school teacher
Historian
Homemaker
Horticulturist
Hotel maid
Housekeeper
Housewife/husband
Infantryman
Insurance Salesman
Interior designer
Inventor
Jailer
Janitor
Judge
Kindergarten teacher
King
Lab assistant
Landscape artist
Lawyer
Librarian
Linguist
Longshoreman
Mail carrier
Maitre’ d
Medical technician
Meteorologist
Midwife
Miner
Minister
Model
Monk
Mortician
Movie star
Musician
News announcer
Newspaper reporter
Nun
Nurse
Occupational therapist
Paramedic
Parent
Parking attendant
Pharmacist
Photographer
Physical therapist
Physician assistant
Physicist
Plastic Surgeon
Plumber
Policeman
Porn star
Postal worker
President
Priest/ess
Producer
Professor
Prospector
Prostitute
Publicist
Public Relations Specialist
Queen
Racecar driver
Radio announcer
Radioman
Realtor
Receptionist
Rock star
Rocket scientist
Roofer
Sailor
Sales clerk
Scientist
Sculptor
Secretary
Security guard
Ski instructor
Skier
Software developer
Spy
Statistician
Steelworker
Stewardess
Stonemason
Street sweeper
Student
Surgeon
Surveyor
Swimming instructor
Taxi driver
Teacher
Adult Education
Elementary
Secondary
Special Education
Televangelist
Tennis player
Tour guide
Toymaker
Truck driver
TV announcer
Unemployed
Used car salesman
Veterinarian
Video developer
Waitress
Weatherman
Webmaster
Wrestler
Monk
Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense Agent
Interdimensional Investigator- Travel through time and space, solving mysteries ancient and new! Please note: you WILL die in the course of this job -- repeatedly -- so this position is recommended for races capable of regeneration after death.
Starship Security Officer
Hand of the King
Bounty Hunter
Lab assistant for the Umbrella Corporation
ballet teacher
Thief
Voodoo Man/Woman
Broadway dancer
Missionary
Puppeteer
Karate instructor
Knight
Squire – a young noble progressing on the path to knighthood, perhaps herself a capable warrior
Page – a very young noble beginning his training to be a knight
Armorer
Baker
Blacksmith
Bookbinder
Bowyer
Brewer – a maker of beer and ale
Bricklayer – a laborer skilled in the building of walls and ducts
Butcher
Candlemaker or Chandler
Carpenter – an elite tradesman, skilled in math as well as woodworking
Cartwright – a maker and repairer of carts and wagons
Clothier – a garment-maker
Cobbler or Shoemaker – makes and mends shoes
Cooper – a barrel-maker
Dyer – a maker of inks, paints, dyes, and stains
Engraver
Furrier
Glassblower
Goldsmith or Silversmith
Hatter
Innkeeper or Tavern-keeper
Jeweler
Joiner – a maker of furniture
Locksmith
Mason
Merchant
Moneylender
Potter
Shipwright – a builder of ships
Tax Collector
Tinker – a traveling craftsman who repairs tin pots and other small items, often also a peddler
Torturer
Trader – by land or by sea
Vintner – a maker of wines
spy
bounty hunter
mystery shopper
toy creator
human scarecrow
human statue
elevator mechanic
Boatman – travel by lake or river
Coachman – driver of a coach
Farmer
Fisherman
Gravedigger
Groom – one who tends animals
Herdsman – a keeper of livestock
Hunter or Trapper
Messenger
Miller
Miner
Painter or Limner
Peddler – an itinerant merchant of goods
Ratcatcher
Sailor
Seamstress
Servant – maid, butler, attendant, steward, etc.
Stevedore – one who loads and unloads goods from sailing ships or caravan
Bodyguard
Bounty Hunter
Forester – a ranger or game warden, often empowered to act as law enforcement within the forest
Gatekeeper or Toll Keeper
Jailer
Mercenary or Soldier
Watchman
Bandit, Mugger, or Thug – steals by force; often part of a gang of thieves
Beggar
Burglar – steals by breaking and entering
Fence – finds buyers for stolen goods, may serve as a pawnbroker
Gambler
Pickpocket or Cutpurse – steals by stealth
Procurer – streetwise specialists in finding whatever their client might be looking for
Prostitute
Slaver
Smuggler – moves stolen or illegal goods
Wanderer – a “barbarian” nomad, drifter, or rover
Acrobat
Clown
Dancer
Fortune-teller – might well have real power in a fantasy world
Juggler
Minstrel
Prestidigitator – stage magician
Storyteller
Odor Tester
Crocodile Wrangler
Fortune Cookie Writer
Pet Detective
Cheese Sprayer- person is in charge of spraying either cheese or butter on popcorn.
IMAX Screen Cleaner
Chimney Sweeper
Professional Whistler
Fountain Pen Repairer
Cow Hoof Trimmer
Ostrich Babysitter
Dog Food Tester
Gum Buster - removing old gum that resides all over the place
Golf Ball Diver
Ufologist
Embalmer
Hot Dog Vendor
Personal Shopper
Ice Cream Taster
Virtual Head Hunter
Funeral Service Manager
Body Part Model
Cruise Ship Entertainer
Jelly Doughnut Filler
Skyscraper Window Washer
Pollen Collector
Leech Purveyor – Raise and distribute medicinal leeches
Duck Master – Lead ducks in a parade into and out of hotel lobby ponds and look out for their health and well being.
Dog Breath Sniffer– Closely related to the Breath Odor Sniffer, only instead of testing the effectiveness of minty products on breath, they test how a dog’s diet affects his breath.
Knife-Thrower’s Assistant – Smile while a seemingly sane man throws hatchets and knives at you.
Wig maker
Video game tester
human billboard

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