This list of mythical creatures that begin with this letter and I am constantly gathering information from each continent, and is continually being updated.
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries)
The crocotta or corocotta, crocuta, or leucrocotta is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Aethiopia, linked to the hyena and said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs. Strabo, who uses the word "crocuttas", describes the beast as the mixed progeny of a wolf and a dog. Pliny in his work Natural History variously described the crocotta as a combination between dog and wolf or between hyena and lion.
The Byzantine scholar Photius summarizing the book Indica, by the Greek author Ctesias, writes: "In Ethiopia there is an animal called crocottas, vulgarly kynolykos [dog-wolf], of amazing strength. It is said to imitate the human voice, to call men by name at night, and to devour those who approach it. It is as brave as a lion, as swift as a horse, and as strong as a bull. It cannot be overcome by any weapon of steel."