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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Le nozze di Paride ed Elena
Ennio Quirino Visconti
1775Italian
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Mona's Isle
William Kennish
1844
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Parcival-Studien
Albert Schulz
1861German
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Sagen und Erzählungen aus der Provinz Posen
Otto Knoop
1893German
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Seifenblasen - moderne Märchen
Kurd Laßwitz
1890German
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The Mystery of Osiris: or, Egyptian Initiation
R. Swinburne Clymer
1909
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The New Found Vvorlde, Or Antarctike Wherin Is Contained Wo[n]derful And Strange Things
André Thevet Thomas Hacket
1568
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The Whims of the Ages: The Moon the Mother of All Things; The Day of Doom and the Flight of the Gods
John Martin Woolsey
1916
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The light princess, and other fairy tales
George MacDonald
1893
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Tsimshian Mythology
Franz Boas
1916
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Ungarische Sagen und Märchen
János Erdélyi, G Stier
1850German
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A history of Greece from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great
George Grote
1872
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Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope
1815
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Beinecke MS 216, Le recueil des histoires de Troies
Lefèvre, Raoul fl. 1460
1450French
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Greyfriars Bobby
Eleanor Atkinson
1912
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Manners and customs of society in India
Major Clemons.
1841
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Mishle ḥakhamim
Selomoh de Oliveyra, Sithon, Shaʼul Yosef Avraham, Yosef ben Avraham Sithon
1831Hebrew
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Mythology compared with history
Tressan, M. l'abbé de
1797
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Seonee = or, Camp life on the Satpura Range
Robert Armitage Sterndale
1877
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The Kathá sarít ságara, or, Ocean of the streams of story
active 11th century Somadeva Bhaotota
1880
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The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the philosopher; viz., Medea, Phaedra and Hippolytus, Troades, or the royal captives, and the Rape of Helen, out of the Greek of Coluthus; translated into English verse; with annotations. To which is prefixed the life and death of Seneca the philosopher; with a vindication of the said tragedies to him, as their proper author
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
1702
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, William Wallace Denslow
1899
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The legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria
of Alexandria Catherine, James Morton
1841ANG
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Ummagga Jataka
T.B Yatawara
1898