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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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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An Inquiry Into Some of the Conditions at Present Affecting the Study of
John Ruskin
1866
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Author and title catalogue of the Cathedral Library, of New York. Oct. 1899
New York Cathedral Free Circulating Library
1899
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Cristalline ou La Belle au bois dormant revisitée (Texte intégral-Traduction française)
Arthur Rackam, George MacDonald, Lucienne
1871French
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Essays
Francis Bacon
1618
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Folk-lore and legends
Charles John Tibbits
1892
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Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories
Thomas Wright Charles Swan
1872
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Introduction to the science of religion
F. Max Müller
1873
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Tree and pillar worship
H. J. Dukinfield Astley
1800
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Малороссійскія пѣсни, изданныя М. Максимовичемъ
Михайло Максимович
1827Russian
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Том 2. Малорусские сказки
Чубинський Павло Платонович
1878Russian
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A history of Greece; from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great. 4th ed
George Grote
1872
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Dawn
H. Rider Haggard
1880
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Der Aberglaube des Mittelalters [microform]
Heinrich Bruno Schindler
1858German
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Fairy tales, their origin and meaning
John Thackray Bunce
1878
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Greek folklore. On the breaking of vessels as a funeral rite in modern Greece
Louis Dyer, Nikolaos G Polites
1893
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Humor in Animals
W. H. Beard
1885
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Number Nip, or, The spirit of the Giant Mountains [microform]
Mary Mary Catherine Rowsell
1884
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Supplément au livre de l'antiquitée expliquée et représentée en figures
Bernard de Montfaucon
1757French
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A Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library Association: Of Boston, Together with the Act of
Mercantile Library Association
1850
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A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History
John Dowson
1870
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A Collection of Novels and Tales of the Fairies
Louise de Bossigny Auneuil Aulnoy
1728
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A Little Book of Missouri Verse: Choice Selections from Missouri Verse-writers
James Samuel Snoddy
1897
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A Smaller Classical Mythology: With Translations from the Ancient Poets, and Questions Upon the Work
William Smith
1882
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A Supplement to the Catalogue of Books, &c. Belonging to the Library Company of Baltimore: 1816-1831
Library Company of Baltimore
1816