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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Beinecke MS 111, Legenda aurea, etc
Jacobus de Voragine
1300Latin
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Die geschichte der sieben Schwaben
1880German
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Di︠e︡dushka govorun
1824Russian
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Di︠e︡dushkiny progulki, soderzhashchīi︠a︡ v sebi︠a︡ desi︠a︡tʹ russkikh skazok
1819Russian
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Flateyjarbok
1860Norwegian
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Le Roman de Troie
Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century|* Benoît de Saint-More
1904French
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Mémoire sur la Déesse Vénus
Pierre-Henri Larcher
1776French
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Predanīi︠a︡ o narodnykh russkikh suevi︠e︡rīi︠a︡kh, povi︠e︡rʹi︠a︡kh i ni︠e︡kotorykh obychai︠a︡kh
1861Russian
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The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare :
ca. 10th cent Abu Obeyd, Anne Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1892
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The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic with a literal translation into English and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems
James Macpherson, Ossian
1762
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Über die Gottheiten von Samothraki
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1815German
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A Book of the Pyrenees
Sabine Baring-Gould
1907
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Bilder der Wunderkunst und des Aberglaubens
Karl Gräbner, Carl Gräbner
1834German
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Bygone Beliefs
H. Stanley Redgrove
1920
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Contes des fées
Robert de Bonnières
1881French
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Description of the character, manner, and customs of the people of India; and of their institutions, religious and civil
J.A Dubois
1817
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Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia
Clemens Brentano
1872German
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Hauksbok
1892Icelandic
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Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Diane E Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas
2007
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Kaala, The Flower of Lanai
David Kalakaua
1888

Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies
Jennifer N. Wunder
2008
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Oude Egyptische Legenden
Margaret Alice Murray
1921Dutch
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Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
1791
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Seikkailu rosenkreuziläisten luona
Franz Hartmann, Kyllikki Ignatius
1922Finnish