- Ba (Egyptian) - word for the soul of the deceased. It was depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
- Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
- Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
- Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
- Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
- Bar Juchne (Jewish) - A bird
- Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
- Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
- Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
- Bake-kujira (Japanese) - A ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline
- Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
- Bakezōri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
- Bakhtak (Persian) - Night demon
- Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
- Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
- Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
- Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
- Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
- Baobhan Sith (Celtic) - Beautiful vampiric seductresses who prey on young travelers by night
- Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
- Bardi (Turkish) - Shapechanging death spirit
- Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
- Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
- Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
- Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
- Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
- BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
- Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
- Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
- Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
- Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
- Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
- Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
- Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean Sídhe)
- Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
- Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
- Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
- Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
- Bergsrå (Norse) - Mountain spirit
- Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
- Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
- Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
- Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
- Bies (Slavic) - Demon
- Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
- Binbōgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
- Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
- Biwa-bokuboku (Japanese)- Animated biwa
- Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
- Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
- Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
- Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
- Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
- Blue Crow (Brazilian) - a giant amazonian bird.
- Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
- Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
- Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
- Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
- Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
- Boi-tatá (Brazilian) - Giant snake
- Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
- Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
- Boo Hag (American folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
- Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
- Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
- Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
- Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
- Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
- Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - bandits
- Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
- Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
- Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
- Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
- Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate
- Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
- Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
- Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
- Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
- Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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