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Encounter mythical beasts and legendary beings from folklore and fantasy. From dragons to unicorns, explore the magical world of creatures that have captured human imagination for centuries. Enjoy our collection of free word search printable puzzles. Perfect for a quick word find or a deep dive into Magic Creatures.

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Dragon

A large, serpentine legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide.

Unicorn

A legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.

Phoenix

A long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.

Griffin

A legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle.

Mermaid

A legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

Centaur

A creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

Werewolf

A human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf.

Vampire

A creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence of the living.

Fairy

A type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures.

Elf

A type of human-shaped supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.

Goblin

A small, grotesque, monstrous creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures.

Troll

A class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore.

Ogre

A legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings.

Witch

A person usually female who practices witchcraft.

Wizard

A man who has magical powers, especially in legends and fairy tales.

Ghost

The soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.

Spirit

The non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

Demon

An evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell.

Angel

A spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God.

Pegasus

A mythical winged divine horse, and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology.

Chimera

A monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor.

Hydra

A serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology.

Kraken

A legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore.

Leviathan

A sea monster referenced in the Hebrew Bible.

Basilisk

A legendary reptile reputed to be a serpent king, who can cause death with a single glance.

Cyclops

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye.

Minotaur

A mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man.

Siren

Dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast.

Banshee

A female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member.

Leprechaun

A type of fairy of the Aos Sí in Irish folklore.

Gnome

A diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy.

Sprite

A supernatural entity in European mythology.

Pixie

A mythical creature of British folklore.

Imp

A European mythological being similar to a fairy or demon.

Golem

An animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, created entirely from inanimate matter.

Mummy

A dead body preserved in a way to prevent or slow down decay.

Zombie

A fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a corpse.

Skeleton

The internal framework of a vertebrate animal.

Wraith

A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.

Spectre

A visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature.

Poltergeist

A type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances.

Bigfoot

A large, hairy, human-like creature believed to inhabit forests in North America.

Yeti

An ape-like entity that purports to inhabit the Himalayan mountain range.

Sasquatch

Another name for Bigfoot.

Loch Ness

A large marine creature believed by some to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.

Chupacabra

A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas.

Jackalope

A mythical animal of North American folklore described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns.

Thunderbird

A legendary creature in certain North American Indigenous peoples history and culture.

Wendigo

A mythological creature or evil spirit from the folklore of the First Nations.

Skinwalker

A harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal.

Djinn

Supernatural creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology.

Genie

A spirit of Arabian folklore, as traditionally depicted imprisoned within a bottle or oil lamp.

Ifrit

A powerful type of demon in Islamic mythology.

Manticore 2

A legendary creature from Persian mythology with the head of a human, body of a lion, and tail of venomous spines similar to porcupine quills.

Kelpie Water

A shape-shifting mythological spirit inhabiting lochs in Scottish folklore, usually described as a black horse-like creature.

Kappa

An amphibious yōkai demon or imp found in traditional Japanese folklore.

Tengu

A type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion possessing supernatural powers and skills in martial arts.

Kitsune

A fox in Japanese folklore that possesses paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser.

Cerberus

A multi-headed dog from Greek mythology that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.

Charybdis

A sea monster in Greek mythology who swallows huge amounts of water and belches them back out, creating large whirlpools.

Scylla

A legendary monster that lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.

Harpy

A half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds in Greek and Roman mythology.

Gargoyle

A grotesque carved human or animal face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building to cast water clear of a wall.

Hippogriff

A legendary creature with the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a horse.

Cockatrice

A mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head.

Wyvern

A legendary bipedal dragon with a tail often ending in a diamond- or arrow-shaped tip.

Mothman

A legendary humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 1966 to 1967.

Jersey Devil

A legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey.

Drop Bear

A hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala.

Bunyip

A large mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.

Yowie

One of several names for an Australian folklore entity reputed to live in the Outback.

Snipe

A non-existent mythical creature frequently used in a practical joke known as a snipe hunt.

Nessie

A large marine creature affectionately nicknamed Nessie, believed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

Baku

Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares.

Nekomata

A kind of cat yōkai described in Japanese folklore, classical kaidan, essays, and more.

Kirin

A mythical hooved chimerical creature known in Chinese and other East Asian cultures.

Roc

An enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East.

Simurgh

A benevolent, mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature.

Ammit

A demoness and goddess in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile.

Sphinx

A mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of a falcon.

Gorgon

A terrifying creature in Greek mythology, the most famous of which was Medusa.

Pegasus Sky

A mythical winged divine horse, and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology.

Alicorn

The name for the horn of a unicorn or a winged unicorn.

Centaur 2

A creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

Satyr

A male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.

Faun

A half-human, half-goat figure in Roman mythology.

Nymph

A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.

Dryad

A tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology.

Naiad

A type of water nymph in Greek mythology, who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

Oread

A type of nymph that lived in mountains, valleys, and ravines.

Gnome 2

A mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, usually living underground.

Goblin 2

A monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages.

Hobgoblin

A small, mischievous creature of domestic folklore, once considered helpful but later regarded as troublesome.

Orc

A fictional humanoid monster akin to a goblin.

Troll 2

A class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore, often living isolated from human habitation.

Ogre 2

A legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings.

Giant

A monster of human appearance, but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures.

Cyclops 2

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead.

Titan

Any of a family of giants in Greek mythology born of Uranus and Gaea and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods.

Vampire 2

A creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence of the living.

Werewolf 2

A human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction.

Zombie 2

A fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a corpse.

Mummy 2

A dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved.

Ghoul 2

A demon-like being or monstrous humanoid originating in pre-Islamic Arabian religion, associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh.

Banshee 2

A female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening.

Dullahan

A type of mythological creature in Irish folklore, depicted as a headless rider on a black horse.

Mermaid Sea

A legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

Merman

A legendary male equivalent and counterpart of the mermaid, having the form of a male human from the waist up and a fish-like tail downward.

Siren 2

Dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.

Kraken 2

A legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore.

Leviathan 2

A mythical sea serpent noted in theology and mythology.

Jörmungandr

A sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and Loki, which grew so large that it was able to surround the earth and grasp its own tail.

Níðhöggr

A dragon/serpent who gnaws at a root of the world tree, Yggdrasil.

Fafnir

A dwarf who was transformed into a dragon, a symbol of greed, and was killed by the hero Sigurd.

Smaug

A fire drake of the Third Age, considered to be the last great dragon to exist in Middle-earth.

Bahamut

A giant fish in Arabian mythology, sometimes described as having a head resembling a hippopotamus or elephant.

Tarrasque

A fearsome legendary dragon-like mythological hybrid from Provence, in southern France.

Behemoth

A beast mythologically mentioned in the Book of Job, a primal monster of the land.

Ziz

A giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wings.

Gryphon

A legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet.

Hippocampus

A mythological creature shared by Phoenician, Etruscan, Pictish, Roman and Greek mythology, typically depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.

Capricorn

A half-goat, half-fish creature from Greek mythology.

Ouroboros

An ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.

Quetzalcoatl

A deity in Aztec culture and literature whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means feathered serpent.

Kukulkan

A Mesoamerican serpent deity that was worshipped by the Yucatec Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Rainbow Serpent

A common deity, often a creator god, in the mythology and a common motif in the art of Aboriginal Australia.

Naga

A divine or semi-divine race of half-human half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld and can occasionally take human form.

Ryujin

The tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology, representing both the perils and bounty of the ocean.

Taniwha

Supernatural creatures in Māori tradition, similar to serpents and dragons, said to hide in the ocean, rivers, lakes or caves.

Moocaha

A Welsh fairy dog, akin to the Cù Sìth in Scottish mythology.

Barghest

A mythical monstrous black dog with large teeth and claws.

Hellhound

A supernatural dog in folklore, usually portrayed as having black fur, glowing red eyes, and phantom characteristics.

Cu Sith

A mythological hound found in Scottish folklore.

Pooka

Creatures of Celtic folklore, considered to be bringers of both good and bad fortune.

Brownie

A household spirit from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores.

Domovoy

A protective house spirit in Slavic folklore.

Kobold

A sprite stemming from Germanic mythology.

Boggart

A household spirit or a malevolent genius loci in English folklore.

Kelpies

A mythological creature from Celtic folklore.

Djinn 2

Supernatural creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian folklore.

Ifrit 2

A powerful type of demon in Islamic mythology.

Marid

A type of inherently evil jinn in Islamic mythology.

Ghoul 3

A demon-like being or monstrous humanoid originating in pre-Islamic Arabian religion.

Cerastes

A legendary serpent from Greek mythology, incredibly flexible, so much so that it was said to have no spine.

Nunda

A giant mythical cat of East Africa.

Aswang

An umbrella term for various shape-shifting evil spirits in Filipino folklore, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and werebeasts.

Manananggal

A vampire-like mythical creature of the Philippines, a malevolent, man-eating and blood-sucking monster or witch.

Sigbin

A creature in Philippine mythology said to come out at night to suck the blood of victims from their shadows.

Tikbalang

A creature of Philippine folklore said to lurk in the mountains and forests of the Philippines, a tall, bony humanoid creature with the head and hooves of a horse.

Kikimora

A legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology, associated with the home and domesticity, and spinning.

Rusalka

A female entity, often malicious toward mankind and frequently associated with water, in Slavic folklore.

Bogeyman

A mythical creature in many cultures used by adults to frighten children into good behavior.

Vodyanoy

A male water spirit in Slavic mythology, known as master of his aquatic domain.

Lechy

A tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology, a shapeshifter able to change size and form.

Huldra

A seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore, distinguished by a cow's tail or a back resembling a hollowed-out tree.

Fossegrim

A water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore, a talented fiddler.

Kraken 3

A legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore.

Nuckelavee 2

A horse-like demon from Orcadian mythology that combines equine and human elements.

Bargu

A mythical creature of the Barguzin taiga.

Imp 2

A European mythological being similar to a fairy or demon.

Elf Wood

A type of human-shaped supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.

Fairy 2

A type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures.

Phoenix 2

A long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again.

Unicorn Pine

A legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.

Sleipnir

An eight-legged horse ridden by Odin in Norse mythology.

Hippogriff 2

A legendary creature with the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a horse.

Wyrm

A large, wingless and limbless serpent or dragon from Germanic mythology.

Zilant

A legendary creature, something between a dragon and a wyvern.

Ceffyl Dwr 2

A water horse in Welsh folklore similar to the Scottish kelpie.

Peryton

A mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird.

Shisa

A traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions.

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