Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
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- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
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The long lost friend
Johann Georg Hohman
1820
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The symbolism of Freemasonry
Albert Gallatin Mackey, Albert Mackey, Making of America Project
1869
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, William Nicholson
1804
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The Vampyre
John William Polidori, John Polidori, George Gordon Byron Byron, John Mitford
1819
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Demonology and devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway
1879
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Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley, George Cruikshank, James Ballantyne and Co. bkp CU-BANC
1830
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Psychology as a natural science applied to the solution of occult psychic phenomena
Charles Godlove Raue, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection, Andrew Lang
1889
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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Andrew Lang, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
1897
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The Making of Religion
Andrew Lang, W. Robertson Smith
1884
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The devil in Britain and America
John Ashton
1896
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The prophecies of the Brahan seer (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche)
Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Kenneth Mackenzie, Coinneach Odhar
1882
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The secret teachings of all ages
Manly Palmer Hall, J. Augustus Knapp
1928
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Theosophy
Müller, F. Max, Friedrich Max Müller, M W, Max Müller
1893
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De la démonialité et des animaux incubes et succubes
Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, Isidore Liseux, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1875Latin
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La sorcière
Jules Michelet, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Lionel Lionel James n 79077380 Trotter, Lionel Lionel James Trotter
1862French
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Aradia Or the Gospel of the Witches
Charles Godfrey Leland
1899
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Thaumaturgia, or elucidations of the marvellous
Oxonian, Oxonian. n 88620357, An Oxonian
1835
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The lost Atlantis
Daniel Wilson
1892
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Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652
Alison Rowlands
2003
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Teutonic mythology
Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Wilhelm Grimm, Elard Hugo Meyer
1835German
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Curious myths of the Middle Ages
Sabine Baring-Gould
1866
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Dog stories from the "Spectator,"
John St. Loe Strachey
1895
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Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning: With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
John Thackray Bunce
1878
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Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland
Thomas Crofton Croker
1825