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
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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 Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud, or, Biblical legends of the Mussulmans
Gustav Weil
1846
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Yorkshire chap-books
Charles A. Federer, Robert Chambers, Thomas Gent
1889
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The library
Apollodorus of Athens, Apollodorus, James George Frazer
1555
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Modern magic
Maximilian Schele de Vere
1873
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Psyche: Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen
Erwin Rohde
1894German
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The mythology of the Bella Coola Indian
Franz Boas
1898
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Folk-lore and legends
C. J. T
1889
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Popular tales of the west Highlands
John Francis Campbell
1860
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Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry
Allan Cunningham
1822
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Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
Jane "Speranza" Wilde, Lady Wilde, William Robert Wilde Wilde
1887
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Teutonic mythology
Viktor Rydberg, Rasmus Björn Anderson
1888
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Voodoo tales, as told among the negroes of the South-west
Mary Alicia Owen
1893
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Altenglische legenden
Carl Horstmann, John Barbour
1875German
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Miscellanies ...
John Aubrey
1696
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Dahcotah
Mary H. Eastman, Mary Mary Henderson Eastman, Seth Eastman, Caroline Caroline Matilda Kirkland
1849
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Kaffir folk-lore, or, A selection from the traditional tales current among the people living on the eastern border of the Cape colony
George McCall Theal
1882NOT
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee [by] T. Edward Bowdich
T. Edward Bowdich, Robert Havell
1819
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Andersen's fairy tales
Hans Christian Andersen
1884
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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Obeliscus Pamphilius
Athanasius Kircher, Cornelis Bloemaert, Lodovico Grignani, Pope Innocent X, former owner. IU-R Society of Writers to H.M. Signet
1650Arabic
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Curiosités infernales
P. L. Jacob
1886French
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Der Höllische Proteus, oder Tausendkünstige Versteller
Erasmus Francisci
1690German
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Fairy tales of the Slav peasants and herdsmen
Aleksander Borejko Chodźko, Alexander Chodźko, 1804-1891, Emily J. Harding
1896
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L' antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ..
Bernard de Montfaucon
1719French
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Le cabinet des fées
Georges professor of French Gérard, Georges Gérard, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Charles Perrault, Madame Leprince de Beaumont
1859French