Magical creature

Magical creature, magical beast, or magical animal may refer to:

Folklore, mythology, and religion

• Legendary creature, a folkloric or mythological creature
  • Anthropomorphic animal, a non-human animal attributed with human traits
  • Cryptid, an animal that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science
  • Monster, a type of creature found in fiction, folklore, mythology, and religion
  • Mythological hybrid, a creature composed of parts from different animals
    • Human–animal hybrid, an organism that incorporates elements from both humans and non-human animals
  • Talking animal, a non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language
  • Therianthrope, a human who shapeshifts into a non-human animal
• Animals in mythology and religion
  • Animal deity, a deity in the form of a non-human animal
  • Animal spirit, the spirit of a non-human animal
  • Familiar, a supernatural entity, interdimensional being, or spiritual guardian that protects or assists witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic, divination, and spiritual insight
  • Power animal, a neoshamanic tutelary spirit
  • Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
  • Vahana, a mount of a Hindu deity
  • Zoomorph, an entity in the form of a non-human animal

Fiction

• Book of Imaginary Beings, a 1957 book by Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero
• A Book of Magical Beasts, a 1970 book by Ruth Manning-Sanders
• Magical creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia
• Magical creatures in Harry Potter
• Talking animals in fiction

See also

• Fantastic Beasts (disambiguation)