A modern painting of the "Piasa Bird ", on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois . Wings were not present in the original painting.
Paasselkä devils (Finnish ) – Spectral fire
Pakhangba (Meitei mythology and Sanamahism ) – Serpentine dragon, ruler of the universe
Pamola (Abenaki ) – Weather spirit
Panes (Greek ) – Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan
Pandi (Medieval Bestiary ) – White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes
Panis (Hindu ) – Demons with herds of stolen cows
Panlong (Chinese ) – Water dragon
Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries ) – Humanoid with gigantic ears
Panther (Medieval Bestiaries ) – Feline with sweet breath
Parandrus (Medieval Bestiaries ) – Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant
Pard (Medieval Bestiaries ) – Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards
Pardalokampoi (Etruscan ) – Fish-tailed leopard
Patagon (Medieval folklore ) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia
Patasola (Latin America ) – Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid
Patupairehe (Māori ) – White-skinned nature spirits
Pech (Scottish ) – Strong little people
Pegaeae (Greek ) – Spring nymph
Pegasus (Greek ) – Winged horse
Pegacorn – Pegasus-unicorn hybrid
Pelesit (Malay ) – Servant spirit
Peluda (French ) – Dragon
Penanggalan (Malay ) – Vampires that sever their heads from their bodies to fly around, usually with their intestines or other internal organs trailing behind
Peng (Chinese ) – Giant bird
Penghou (Chinese ) – Tree spirit
Peri (Persian ) – Winged humanoid
Peryton (Allegedly Medieval folklore ) – Deer-bird hybrid
Pesanta (Catalan ) – Nightmare demon in the form of a cat or dog
Peuchen (Chilota and Mapuche ) – Vampiric, flying, shapeshifting serpent
Phi Tai Hong (Thai ) – Ghost of a person who has died suddenly of a violent or cruel death
Phoenix (Phoenician ) – Regenerative bird reborn from its own ashes
Piasa (Native American mythology ) – Winged, antlered feline-like dragon
Piatek (Armenian ) – Large land animal
Pictish Beast (Pictish stones ) – Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon
Pillan (Mapuche ) – Nature spirit
Pim-skwa-wagen-owad (Abenaki ) – Water spirit
Piru (Finnish ) – Minor demon
Pishacha (Hindu ) – Carrion-eating demon
Pishtaco (Peru ) – Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes
Pita-skog (Abenaki ) – Serpentine rain spirit
Pixie (Cornish ) – Little people and nature spirits
Pixiu (Chinese ) – Winged lion
Pi yao (Chinese ) – Horned, dragon-lion hybrid
Plakavac (Slavic ) – Vampire created when a mother strangles her child
Pok-wejee-men (Abenaki ) – Tree spirit
Polevik (Polish) – Little people and field spirits
Pollo Maligno (Colombian ) – Man-eating chicken spirit
Polong (Malay ) – Invisible servant spirit
Poltergeist (German ) – Ghost that moves objects
Pombero (Guaraní ) – Wild man and nature spirit
Ponaturi (Māori ) – Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Pontianak (Malay ) – Undead, vampiric women who died in childbirth
Pope Lick Monster (American Folklore ) Kentucky Urban Legend – Cryptid, a murderous creature that is part man, sheep, and goat
Poubi Lai (Meitei mythology ) – Evil dragon python from the Loktak lake
Pouākai (Māori ) – Giant bird
Preta (Buddhist , Hindu , and Jain ) – Ghosts of especially greedy people
Pricolici (Romanian – Roman ) – Undead wolf
Psoglav (Serbia ) – Dog-headed monster
Psotnik (Slavic ) – Mischievous spirit
Psychai (Greek ) – Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche
Psychopomp (Greek ) – Creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions who escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife
Púca (Welsh ) – Shapeshifting animal spirit
Púki (Icelandic ) – Malevolent little person
Puck (English ) – House spirit
Putz (German ) – House spirit
Pugot (Philippine ) – Headless humanoid
Puk (Frisian) – House spirit
Pūķis (Latvian ) – Dragon
Puckwudgie (Native American mythology) – Troll-like gray-skinned being
Pygmy (Greek ) – Little people
Pyrausta (Greek ) – Insect-dragon hybrid
Python (Greek ) – Serpentine dragon