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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A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Frederick James Furnivall Geoffrey Chaucer
1877
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A history of the doctrine of comets: A Paper Read Before the American Historical Association at
Andrew Dickson White
1887
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A supplementary English glossary
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies
1881
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Abaddon's Steam Engine, Calumny, Delineated: Being an Attempt to Stop Its
Richard Ferguson Lover of mercy rejoicing over judgement
1817
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An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the
John F. G. Stokes Abraham Fornander
1878
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An Address to Men of Science: Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth from
Richard Carlile
1821
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An Introduction to Folk-lore
Marian Emily Roalfe Cox Marian Roalfe Cox
1895
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Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors
F . Tegetmeyer W. Wägner
1880
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Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors
M. W . Macdowall Wilhelm Wägner
1886
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At the Sign of the Lvre
Austin Dobson
1885
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Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky Mountains
Hablot Knight Browne Edmund Bostwick Tuttle
1878
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Break Od̓ay Tales
Frank West Rollins
1894
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Brunhild: A Tragedy from the Nibelung Saga
Emanuel Geibel
1879
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Euripides' Alcestis
Euripides
1818
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Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings
Snorri Sturluson
1633
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen der gebrüder Grimm
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Friedrich Schiller, William Henry Van der Smissen
1888
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Ko nga moteatea, me nga hakirara o nga Maori
George Grey
1853MAO
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MAYSE NISIM , AMSTERDAM1696
Yuspa Shammes
1696Yiddish
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The Ainu of Japan: the religion, superstitions, and general history of the
John Batchelor
1892
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The Best Reading: Second [--fourth] Series. A Priced and Classified Bibliography, for Easy
Lynds Eugene Jones
1882
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The Book of Sindibād: Or, The Story of the King, His Son, the Damsel, and Seven Vazi?rs
Sindbād
1884
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The Book of Wonder Voyages
Joseph Jacobs
1896
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The British Poets
Francis James Child
1865
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The hand of destiny
C. J. S. Thompson
1932