List of legendary creatures (D)
- Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
- Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
- Dahu (France, Switzerland and the north of Italy) - Like a deer or ibex with legs on one side of its body are shorter than on the other side
- Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
- Daitengu (Japanese) - Most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
- Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
- Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
- Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
- Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
- Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
- Ded Moroz (Russia) - A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
- Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
- Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural possibly immortal being
- Demigod (Global) - Half human, half god
- Dhampir (Balkans) - Human/vampire hybrid
- Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
- Dilong (Chinese) - Earth dragon
- Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
- Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
- Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely venomous snake
- Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
- Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
- Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
- Djall (Albanian)- Devil
- Dobhar-chu (Irish) - King otter
- Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
- Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
- Dökkálfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits; the Dark Elves
- Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
- Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
- Doppelgänger (German) - Ghostly double
- Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
- Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
- Drakon (Greek) - Greek dragons
- Drakaina (Greek) - Dragons depicted with female characteristics
- Dragon (Many cultures worldwide) - Fire-breathing and (normally) winged reptiles
- Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
- Drangue (Albanian) - Semi-human winged warriors
- Draugr (Norse) - Undead
- Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
- Drop Bear (Australian) Large carnivorous koala that hunts by dropping on its prey from trees
- Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
- Drude (German) - Possessing demon
- Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
- Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
- Duende (Spanish and Portuguese) - Little people and forest spirits
- Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
- Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
- Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
- Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
- Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
- Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
- Dybbuk (Jewish) - Spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living
- Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
- Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag