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
Ni︠e︡skolʹko zami︠e︡chanīĭ ob upotreblenīi inostrannykh slov
Roman Brandt
1883Russian
Normandie scandinave
Edouard Le Héricher
1861French
Norwegische Volksmährchen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1847German
Nosferatu
Ernest Prodolliet
1980German
Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets, opéras, et comédies
François Joullain
1725French
Nye Eventyr og Historier af H.C. Andersen
H. C. Andersen
1866Danish
Nye eventyr
H. C. Andersen
1845Danish
Obʺi︠a︡snenīe 7,000 inostrannykhʺ slovʺ, voshedshikhʺ vʺ upotreblenīe vʺ russkīĭ i︠a︡zykʺ
A. D. Mikhelʹson
1861Russian
Oeuvres choisies de Ch. Perrault
Charles Perrault, J.-A.-S Collin de Plancy
1826French
Om de kemiska grunämnenas peroidiska system
J. R. Rydberg
1885Swedish
On the origin of elementary substances
Henry Wilde
1892Multiple languages
Oratio habita ab oratore illvstrissimi D. Alberti Dvcis Bavariae in generali congregatione Sacri Concilii Tridentini, sub S.D.N. Pio PP. IIII. die XXVII. Iunii
Augustin Baumgartner, Albert V Duke of Bavaria, Lorenzo & compagni
1562Latin
Orationes in Concil. Trident. habitae. Apologia ad D. Maximil. II. Imp. Commentativs pro conivgii libertate
András Dudith
1610Latin
Orientalische Märchenwelt
Marianne Conrad Frau Wolf
1892German
Paramythia danika
H. C. Andersen, Dēmētrios Vikelas
1884Greek
Patmutʻiwn pghndzē kʻaghakʻin
Khikar Imastun
1850Armenian
Phantasieen und Märchen
Isolde Kurz
1890German
Phantasus
Ludwig Tieck
1810German
Philologia sacra
Johannes Vorst
1658Latin
Picudos y deslenguados
Enrique Rivas Paniagua
2007Spanish
Poetika jakožto Aesthetika umění básnického
Josef Durdík
1881Czech
Posteriores libri IX
Euclid, Christoph Clavius, Hysicles, François de Foix comte de Candale
1603Latin
Praelectiones tresdecim in principivm elementorvm evclidis, Oxonii Habitae, M.DC.XX
Henry Sir Savile
1621Latin
Prinzen-Märchen
Agnes Schoebel
1890German