Legendary Creatures
- Beast of Gévaudan
- Brownie of the Lake
- Dames Blanches, type of female spirit
- European dragon
- Fae - aka Fae, Fée, the origin of the word Fairy
- Gap of Goeblin - is a "goblin hole", the legend that surrounds a hole and underground tunnel in Mortain, France.
- Gargouille - A legendary dragon
- Gargoyle - A beast
- Goblins
- Lutins - A type of hobgoblin
- Matagot - A spirit in the form of an animal, usually a cat
- Melusine - A feminine spirit of fresh waters
- Morgan le Fay (Morgue le Faye) - In the early Legends of Charlemagne, she is most famous for her association with Ogier the Dane, whom she takes to her mystical island palace to be her lover. In Huon de Bordeaux, Morgan le Fay and Julius Caesar are the parents of Oberon.
- Oberon - King of the Fairies. In the early Legends of Charlemagne, Huon de Bordeaux he is the son of Morgan le Faye and Julius Caesar.
- Reynard - A trickster fox. See also Animal fables, mock epics.
- Tarasque - A legendary dragon
- Werewolf
- Woodwose (aka Homme Sauvage,, Wadwasa and Wild Man)
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“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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