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
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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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Dvādaśastotra, circa 1700-1850
Madhva, Balirāmamula
1700Sanskrit
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Eastern tales
Laura Valentine
1800
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Folk-Lore and Legends: Russian and Polish, by Charles John Tibbits
Charles John Tibbits
1890
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Folk-lore relics of early village life
George Laurence Gomme
1883
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Historical and Traditional Tales in Prose and Verse, Connected With the South of Scotland, Original and Select
1843
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Marston MS 76, Pomponius Mela; Vibius Sequester; Dares, etc
Pomponius Mela
1450Latin
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Merry's book of animals
John Newton Stearns
1860
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Myths & legends of China
Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner
1922
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also, an appendix containing such articles on the subject as have been omitted by that author
John Brand
1810
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Russian fairy tales from the Skazki of Polevo
R. Nisbet Bain, Petr Polevo
1893
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Syv Legender
Gottfried Keller
1882Danish
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The History Of The Holy Grail
Henry Lovelich
1874
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The wonder clock, or, Four & twenty marvelous tales
Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle
1887
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Paws and claws
Elizabeth Anna Hart
1874
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Strange stories of the animal world
John Timbs
1865
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THE HISTORY OF CINDERELLA
ANONYMUS
1840
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The British poets of the nineteenth century
British poets
1828
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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
1609
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The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom :St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, St. David of Wales
Richard Johnson
1670
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Typee - A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) London Edition
Victorian Vault
1846
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Максимович М. А. Малороссийские песни. 1827
Mykhaylo Maksymovych
1827Russian
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A child's book of saints
William Canton, Thomas Heath Robinson
1898
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A floral fantasy in an old English garden
Walter Crane
1899
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A primary reader
E. Louise Smythe
1896