Cactus Cat

One of the guardians of Good Magician Humphrey�s castle. It has a feline face, but its fur is composed of large, stiff thorns, and it has knifelike blades of bone on the front legs.

Callicantzari

Race of monsters, like transmogrified goblins, who live underground and undermine important trees. Their muscles may be attached backward and some bones may be in the wrong places.

Catamount

A large reddish feline who guards the Catwalk.

Catapult

A feline creature the size of a small sphinx, crouching in a clearing. For a dose of catnip, it will fling an object forward.

Catoblepas

A creature with snakelike hair, reptilian scales, four cloven hooves, and a deadly stare.

Centaurs

They date from C.B.P. 1800 when the first man and horse drank from a love spring. They have the body of a horse and the head and upper torso of a man or woman. They are superlative bowmen and spearmen, and are intelligent and honorbound, but have a deep cultural aversion to magic, which they consider obscene in higher creatures. (Man is not high enough to be considered obscene.)

Centaurs are fierce fighters and strong-bodied. Even a filly can hoist the weight of her equine body using only her human arms. Centaurs, though partly magic in origin, have full magical talents. However, polite centaur society considers magic obscene, so few of their talents have been described, let alone realized by their possessors. Centaur Isle is the center of learning in Xanth. Even the least intelligent centaur is more brilliant than any human. Centaurs have a high regard for honor, and a centaur's word is inviolate. They are independent in nature and have perfectly developed powers of observation.

In recent times, some centaurs have interbred with other creatures to form a version of flying centaur, described below.

Winged Centaurs

Winged centaurs are a new species starting in Xanth they began when a centaur and hippogryph mated. Winged centaurs are not accepted by the other centaurs so the small band of them keep mostly to them selves. The first mating of a centaur and hippogryph was Xap the hippogryph and Chem Centaur. Together they foaled Chex the winged centaur.

Centycore

One of the guardians of Good Magician Humphrey�s castle, it is a creature without mercy. It has horse hooves, a monstrous mouth, and a branching antler of ten points projecting from the middle of its face, and the voice of a man.

Chobees

Mostly harmless and unrelated to other bees, they don�t sting. They have long reptilian bodies with snouts and big, soft imitation teeth, and can be found in Lake Ogre-Chobee.

Clouds

In Xanth, clouds are characters. They most common are the Cumulis, which are good-natured, especially Cumulis Humilis, very humble and fleecy. Some are floating dishes filled with water; when they get tilted, it rains. But some are bad tempered Thunderheads, or funnel-shaped carnivorous clouds. Some make technicolor hailstorms, and some send down hailstones that are deadly. The worst cloud is Fracto, a perennial troublemaker.

Cockatrice

see Basilisk.

Conniptions

Nasty little things that aggravate folks to the point of rage, especially when there is already a problem.

Copycat

A creature like a mundane cat, that sits on things and purrs and makes copies of them.

Cowboys

Bullheaded men and cow-headed women, led by Ferdinand.

Curse Fiends

Basically of human stock, but all of them have the same magic talent: cursing. They live in Gateway Castle, under Lake Ogre-Chobee, and are expert Thespians.