Magical creature

Magical creature(s), magical beast(s) or magical animal(s) may refer to:

Religion, mythology and folklore

• Legendary creature, a mythological or folkloric creature
  • Monster, a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order
    • Mythological hybrid
    • Therianthrope, a human being who metamorphoses into another animal by means of shapeshifting
• Cryptid, a creature or plant whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely
  • Human–animal hybrid
  • Talking animal
• Animal spirit
  • Animal deity
  • Familiar spirit, a supernatural entity believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic
  • Totemic animal
    • Power animal, a broadly animistic and shamanic concept
  • Vahana, a being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle

Fiction

• Talking animals in fiction
• A Book of Magical Beasts, a 1970 collection of fairy tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Magical creatures in Harry Potter
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a 2001 guide book by J. K. Rowling
    • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film), a 2016 fantasy film
    • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, a 2018 fantasy film