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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Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos
Ivo Struyf
1908Dutch
Witchcraft
Jennie Woodard
2025
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Старосветский бандуриста. Кн. 1 - 3
Zakrevskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, Закревський, Микола
1860Russian
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch
Date unknown
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Jack and the bean-stalk
Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Randolph Caldecott, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson
1886
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The Adventures of Kamoula, the lovely Arabian, or, A vindication of the ways of providence
François Pétis de La Croix
1801
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The Enchanted Knights; or The Chronicle of the Three Sisters
A. Sagorski
1845
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The good old story of Cinderella
Thomas Strong Seccombe
1882
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Сборник малороссийских заклинаний
Ефименко, Петр Саввич
1874Russian
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A Manual Of Scandanavian Mythology G Pigott
Grenville Pigott
1839
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A compendious history of English literature and of the English language from the Norman conquest ; With numerous specimens. In Two Volumes
George Lillie Craik
1861
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A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
1713
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Alphabetical finding list of the Free Public Library of Jersey City, New Jersey, August 1, 1891
Free Public Library of Jersey City
1891
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Hercules
Thomas Broughton, George Frideric Handel
1788
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Legends of savage life
James Greenwood, Ernest Henry Griset
1867
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Merry's book of travel and adventure
John Newton Stearns
1860
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Old French romances
William Morris
1896
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Popular Tales of the Germans (Volume 1)
Thomas Beddoes
1791
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Popular Tales of the Germans (Volume 2)
Thomas Beddoes
1791
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
1959
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The Rhine; the most interesting legends, traditions histories, from Cologne to Mainz
Joseph Snowe
1840
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The every-day book
William Hone
1826
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The pre-Columbian discovery of America by the Northmen
Benjamin F. DeCosta
1868
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Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology
Joseph Thomas
1870