Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
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- Books
- 2,883
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 36%
- 1,048 with public full text
- With covers
- 51%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,368
- Metadata match20
- Query match1,494
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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Key subjects
- Fairy tales1K
- Juvenile fiction413
- Fairies363
- Fiction359
- Vampires270
- Folklore228
- Children's fiction177
- Children's stories173
- Conduct of life164
- Children135
- Werewolves117
- Tales114
- Juvenile literature113
- Vampir111
- Foreign elements110
- Fantasy105
- Early works to 1800101
- Vampires, fiction93
- Fantasy fiction90
- Magic89
- Euclid's Elements88
- Specimens80
- History67
- History and criticism59
Top languages
- English1,776 · 62%
- German445 · 15%
- French254 · 9%
- Latin42 · 1%
- Japanese36 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Hans Christian Andersen56 books
- Charles Perrault46 in this tradition48 books
- Andrew Lang27 in this tradition36 books
- Walter Crane25 in this tradition26 books
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy25 books
- Wilhelm Grimm20 in this tradition24 books
- Jacob Grimm20 in this tradition21 books
- Euclid20 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition17 books
- Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]14 in this tradition15 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- George MacDonald13 in this tradition15 books
2,883 books
- Read free
A supplement to the Elements of Euclid
D. Cresswell
1819
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A system of theoretical and practical chemistry
Friedrich Christian Accum
1803
- Read free
Alexandri Neckam De naturis rerum, libro duo
Alexander Neckam
1863
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Among the fairies
Augusta Bethell Parker
1884
- Read free
An elementary treatise on the geometrical and algebraical investigation of maxima and minima
D. Cresswell
1812
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An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry
David Low
1844
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Andersen's Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1893
- Read free
Beauty and the beast
Walter Crane
1875
- Read free
Cinderella picture book
Walter Crane
1897
- Read free
Crackers for Christmas
Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen Lord Brabourne
1874
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Danish fairy tales
J. Christian Bay
1899Danish
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Eastern fairy legends current in southern India
Mary Frere
1881
- Read free
Elements of geometry
John Playfair, Euclid
1795
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Elements of geometry
John Bonnycastle, John Lawson
1789
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Elements of geometry, containing books I. to VI. and portions of books XI. and XII. of Euclid
J. Hamblin Smith, Thomas Kirkland
1879
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Elements of geometry, containing the first six books of Euclid, with a supplement on the quadrature of the circle, and the geometry of solids
John Playfair
1875
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Elements of geometry; containing the first six books of Euclid, with two books on the geometry of solids. To which are added elements of plane and spherical trigonometry
John Playfair
1795
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English etymologies
William Henry Fox Talbot
1847
- Read free
English fairy and other folk tales
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1899
- Read free
Eric, Prince of Lorlonia, or, The valley of wishes
Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey
1895
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Euclid's Elements of geometry
Euclid
1822
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Euclid's elements
A. C. McKay
1902
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Euclid's elements of geometry
Robert Potts
1845
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Experimental physics
William Abbott Stone
1897