Magical creature
Appearance
Magical creature(s), magical beast(s) or magical animal(s) may refer to:
Religion, mythology and folklore
- Legendary creature, a mythological or folkloric creature
- Cryptid, a creature or plant whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely
- Mythological hybrid, a creature composed of parts from different animals
- Therianthrope, a human being who metamorphoses into another animal by means of shapeshifting
- Animals in religion
- Animal deity, a deity represented in the form of an animal
- Animal spirits (disambiguation)
Fiction
- Talking animals in fiction
- Book of Imaginary Beings, a 1957 book by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero
- 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