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
Bastaardwoordenboek
Jan Broeckaert
1895Dutch
Der Purismus in der deutschen Litteratur des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts
Hans Wolff
1888German
Deutsche Hausmärchen
Johann Wilhelm Wolf
1858German
Ehstnische Märchen
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1869Estonian
Eventyr og historier
H. C. Andersen, Herluf Jensenius, Helge Gottlieb Topsøe-Jensen
1862Danish
Graeca et latina lingua hebraizantes, seu, de graecae et latinae linguae cum hebraica affinitate libellus
Paulus Maria Ogerius
1764Latin
Irische Elfenmärchen
Thomas Crofton Croker, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
1826German
Läsning för barn
Zacharias Topelius
1877Swedish
Mährchen und Erzählungen
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
1853German
Nissen
Vilhelm Bergsøe
1889Danish
Volksmärchen Aus der Bretagne
Heinrich Bode
1847German
A Demonstration That The Church of Rome, And Her Councils Have Erred
Daniel Whitby
1688
A controversy between the four elements
Aaron Niles
1812
A fairy at school
Rose Terry Cooke
1893
A farm in fairyland
Laurence Housman
1894
A field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other subversive spirits
Carol K. Mack
1998
A gift from fairy land
James Kirke Paulding, John Gadsby Chapman
1840
A history of the undead
Charlotte Booth, EBSCOhost
2021
A new collection of fairy tales
Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus, Henry Brooke
1750
A new history of Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
1800
A primary charge delivered to the clergy of his diocese, at the annual Synod of 1857
A. P Forbes
1858
A text-book of Euclid's elements for the use of schools
Euclid, Henry Sinclair Hall, F. H. Stevens
1895
A treatise of Communion under both species
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
1685
A treatise of communion under both kinds
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
1687