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
Procli Diadochi Lycii philosophi Platonici A C mathematici probatissimi In primvm Evclidis elementorum librum commentariorvm ad vniversam mathematicam disciplinam principivm ervditionis tradentivm libri IIII. A Francisco Barocio ... summa opera, cura, ac diligentia cunctis mendis expurgati : scholiis, & figuris, que in greco codice omnes desiderabantnr [!] aucti
Proclus
1560Latin
Przebudzenie
L. J Smith
2011Polish
Příspěvky k české etymologii lidové
J. Černý
1894Czech
Recherches nouvelles sur les porismes d'Euclide
P. Breton
1855French
Resolvtio omnivm Evclidis problematvm aliorumq₃ ad hoc necessario inuentorum vna tantummodo circini data apertura
Giovanni Battista Benedetti
1553Latin
Rumänische Märchen
Mite Kremnitz, Petre Ispirescu
1882German
Russkīi︠a︡ di︠e︡tskīi︠a︡ skazki
A. N. Afanasʹev
1870Russian
Rübezahl
K. A. Müller
1800German
Rügensche Sagen und Märchen
Alfred Haas
1896German
S. Thomae Aqvinatis In libros Aristotelis De generatione et corrvptione castigatissima commentaria
Thomas Aquinas, Franciscus Vatablus, Aristotle
1555Latin
Sagn og eventyr fra Nordland
O. Nicolaissen
1879Norwegian
Samovolná germanisace češtiny, moravštiny, slovenštiny kazí její lahodnou srozumitelnost, čistotu, sílu, ráznost, libozvučnost, a jakými opravami takové nesnázi snadno vyhověti lze
František Cyrill Kampelík
1864Czech
Sang pour sang
Jean Marigny
2010French
Schelmereien Amor's
Jean de La Fontaine
1860German
Sibirische märchen
H. Ludwig
1890German
Skaski o volshebnit͡sakh
Charles Perrault, Lev Voinov
1768Russian
Skaski o volshebnit͡sakh s nravouchenīi͡ami
Charles Perrault, Lev Voinov
1781Russian
Skazka i miḟ
A. N. Afanasʹev
1864Russian
Skazki bratʹev Grimm
Jacob Grimm
1893Russian
Slovenskje povesťi
Janko Francisci-Rimavský
1845Slovak
Slovenské pohádky a pověsti
Božena Němcová
1857Czech
Spalona
P. C Cast, Kristin Cast
2011Polish
Spectralanalytischer Nachweis von Spuren eines neuen, der eilsten Reihe der Mendelejeff'schen Tafel angehörigen Elementes, welches besonders im Tellur und Antimon, ausserdem aber auch im Kupfer
Anton Grünwald
1889German
Sravnenīe russkikh slov s sanskritskimi A. Khomi︠a︡kova
A. S. Khomi︠a︡kov
1855Russian