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Saci (Brazilian) - One-legged nature-spirit
Sagari (Japanese) - Horse's head that dangles from trees on Kyūshū
Sakabashira (Japanese) - Haunted pillar, installed upside-down
Salamander (Alchemy) - Fire elemental
Samebito (Japanese) - Shark-man servant of the dragon king of the sea.
Samodiva (Slavic) - Nature spirit
Sampati (Hindu) - brother to the demi-god Jatayu
Sandman (Northern Europe) – Nursery spirit that induces sleep in children
Sango (South Western Nigeria) – King of Arts of Music, Dance and Entertainment in the Yoruba Culture
Santelmo (Philippine) - Spirits in a form of fireball, roaming around the forest
Sânziană (Romanian) - Nature spirit
Sarimanok (Philippine) - Bird of good fortune
Sarngika (Hindu) - Bird spirit
Sarugami (Japanese) - Wicked monkey spirit which was defeated by a dog
Satori (Japanese) - Mind-reading humanoid
Satyr (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid and fertility spirit (human torso with two legs of a horse)
Satyrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Sazae-oni (Japanese) - Shapeshifting turban snail spirit
Sceadugenga (English) - Shapeshifting undead
Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake which mesmerizes its prey
Scorpion Man (Sumerian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Scylla (Greek) - Human-snake-wolf hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve wolf legs, and six long-necked wolf heads
Sea-bee (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed bee
Sea monk (Medieval folklore) - Fish-like humanoid
Sea monster (Worldwide) - Giant, marine animals
Sea serpent (Worldwide) - Serpentine sea monster
Sea-Wyvern (Heraldic) - Fish-tailed wyvern
Seko (Japanese) - Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) - Human-seal shapeshifter
Senpoku-Kanpoku (Japanese) - Human-faced frog which guides the souls of the newly deceased to the graveyard
Seps (Medieval Bestiaries) - Snake with highly corrosive venom
Serpent (Worldwide) - Snake spirit
Serpopard (Ancient Egypt) - Serpent-leopard hybrid
Shachihoko (Japanese) - Tiger-carp hybrid
Shade (Worldwide) - Spiritual imprint
Shadow People (American) - Malevolent ghost
Shahbaz (Persian) - Giant eagle or hawk
Shang-Yang (Chinese) - Rain bird
Shedim (Jewish) - Chicken-legged demon
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or lion with a human head
Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) - Water spirit
Shen (Chinese) - Shapeshifing sea monster
Shenlong (Chinese) - Weather dragon
Shibaten (Japanese) - Water spirit from Shikoku
Shikigami (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shiki-ōji (Japanese) - Child-sized servant spirit
Shikome (Japanese) - Underworld hag
Shinigami (Japanese) - "Death god"
Shiro-bōzu (Japanese) - White, faceless spirit
Shirouneri (Japanese) - Animated mosquito netting or dust cloth
Shiryō (Japanese) - Spirit of a dead person
Shisa (Japanese) - Lion-dog hybrid
Shishi (Chinese) - Protective animal
Shōjō (Japanese) - Red-haired sea-sprites who love alcohol
Shōkera (Japanese) - Creature that peers in through skylights
Shtriga (Albanian) - An evil or dangerous witch
Shui Gui (Chinese) - Drowned ghost
Shug Monkey (English) - Dog/monkey
Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak'in), an animal mentioned in American folklore that is said to resemble a wolf or hyena
Shunoban (Japanese) - Red-faced ghoul
Shuten-dōji (Japanese) - Ruler of the Oni
Sídhe - (Irish and Scottish) - Ancestral or nature spirit
Sigbin (Philippine) - Goat-like vampire
Sileni (Greek) - Bald, fat, thick-lipped, and flat-nosed followers of Dionysus
Simargl (Slavic) - Winged dog
Simurgh (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Singa (Batak) - Feline animal
Sint Holo (Choctaw) - Serpentine rain spirit
Siren (Greek) - Human-Fish Hybrid
Sirin (Slavic) - Demonic human-headed bird
Sirrush (Akkadian) - Dragon with aquiline hind legs and feline forelegs
Sisiutl (Native American) - Two-headed sea serpent
Si-Te-Cah (Paiute) - Red-haired giants
Sjörå (Norse) - Freshwater spirit
Sjövættir (Norse) - Sea spirit
Skin-walker (Native American) - Animal-human shapeshifter
Skogsrå (Scandinavian) - Forest spirit
Skookum (Chinook Jargon) - Hairy giant
Skrzak (Slavic) - Flying imp
Sky Women (Polish) - Weather spirit
Sleipnir (Norse) - eight-legged horse
Sluagh (Irish and Scottish) - Restless ghost
Sodehiki-kozō (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which pulls on sleeves
Sōgenbi (Japanese) - Fiery ghost of an oil-stealing monk
Soragami (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon
Soraki-gaeshi (Japanese) - Sound of trees being cut down, when later none seem to have been cut
Sorobanbōzu (Japanese) - Ghost with an abacus
Sōtangitsune (Japanese) - Fox spirit from Kyoto
Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago) - Vampiric hag who takes the form of a fireball at night
Spearfinger (Cherokee) - Sharp-fingered hag
Spectre (Worldwide) - Terrifying ghost
Sphinx (Greek) - Winged lion with a woman's head
Spiriduş (Romanian) - Little people
Spriggan (Cornish) - Guardians of graveyards and ruins
Sprite (Medieval folklore) - little people, ghosts or elves
Squonk (American) - Ugly and lonely creature capable of evading capture by dissolving itself into a pool of tears
Strigoi (Romanian) - Vampire
Strix (Roman) - Vampiric bird
Struthopodes (Medieval Bestiaries) - Humanoid whose males have enormous feet, and females have tiny feet
Strzyga (Slavic) - Vampiric undead
Stuhać (Slavic) - Malevolent mountain spirit
Stymphalian Bird (Greek) - Metallic bird
Suangi (New Guinea) - Anthropophagous sorcerer
Succubus (Medieval folklore) - Female night-demon
Sudice (Slavic) - Fortune spirit
Sunakake-baba (Japanese) - Sand-throwing hag
Sunekosuri (Japanese) - Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night
Surma (Finnish) - Hellhound
Suzaku (Japanese) - Japanese version of the Chinese Vermillion Bird
Svaðilfari (Norse) - unnatural strong horse, father of Sleipnir
Svartálfar (Norse) - Cavern spirits; the Black Elves
The Swallower (Ancient Egyptian) - Crocodile-leopard-hippopotamus hybrid
Swan maiden (Worldwide) - Swan-human shapeshifter
Sylph (Alchemy) - Air elemental
Sylvan (Medieval folklore) - Forest spirit
Syrbotae (Medieval Bestiaries) - African giant
Syrictæ (Medieval Bestiaries) - Reptilian humanoid

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