Beings and Creatures in Turkish Folklore
- Al Basti
- Bardi - a female jackal which can change shape and presages death by wailing
- Bird of Sorrow
- Dew (also called div)
- Dragons
- Dunganga
- Giant 'Arab' or 'Dervish'
- Imp
- Kamer-taj, the Moon-horse
- Karakoncolos
- Karakura - a male night demon
- Keloglan Bald Boy
- Laughing Apple and Weeping Apple
- Peris
- Seven-headed Dragon
- Storm Fiend
- Tavara
- Shah Meran, the legendary Snake King who was killed in an ambush in the baths.
- Taram Baba, the night demon or nightmare which is believed to kidnap children, in some Balkanic Turks' tradition.
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