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- 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
- Heracles (Greek) - Gatekeeper of Olympus
- Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
- Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
- Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
- Hidebehind (United States) - Nocturnal forest creature
- 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) - 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 - 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) - 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
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