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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- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
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- 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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त्रिषष्टिशलाकापुरुषचरित of हेमचन्द्र
1498
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शालिभद्रचरित of धर्मकुमार
1483
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A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part 1: Part 1
Geoffrey Chaucer Frederick James Furnivall
1868
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American History
Jacob Abbott
1860
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education
Hugh Miller
1865
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Athens: Its Rise and Fall
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
1875
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Campaign Sketches Of The War With Mexico (1847) William Seaton Henry
Victorian Vault
1847
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Flores poetici
Hermon Bourne
1833
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Gesta Romanorum: or, entertaining moral stories; invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit: whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their plots. Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes by the Rev. Charles Swan. New edition, with an introduction, by Thomas Wright
Charles Swan, Thomas Wright
1872
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Gottfried's von Monmouth historia regum Britannie, mit literar-historischer einleitung und ausführlichen anmerkungen, und brut tysylio, altwälsche chronik in deutscher uebersetzung
of Monmouth Geoffrey
1854German
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Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and descents of the Northmen on the British isles. Vol. I. Orkneyinga saga, and Magnus saga, with appendices. Edited by Gudbrand Vigfusson
Guðbrandur Vigfússon
1887
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Shakespeare jest-books; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare. I. A hundred mery talys, from the only known copy. II. Mery tales and quicke answeres, from the rare edition of 1567. Edited, with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt
William Carew Hazlitt
1881
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The Knight's Tale, and, The Flower and the Leaf: after Geoffrey Chaucer: by Edward Hovel Thurlow, Lord Thurlow. Second edition
Geoffrey Chaucer, Edward Hovell-Thurlow
1822
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The book of were-wolves: being an account of a terrible superstition
Sabine Baring-Gould
1865
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The story of Egil Skallagrimsson: being an Icelandic family history of the ninth and tenth centuries, translated from Icelandic by Rev. W. C. Green
W. C Green
1893
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the former editions, and many valuable MSS. out of which, three tales are added which were never before printed; by John Urry, student of Christ-Church, Oxon. Deceased: together with a glossary, by a student of the same college. To the whole is prefixed the author's life, newly written, and a preface, giving an account of this edition
John Urry
1721
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Думки і пісні та ще дещо
Amvrosii Metlynsky, Amvrosi Luk'ianovich Metlinski
1839Russian
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Daphnis & Chloe
Longus, Otto Schönberger
1587
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De oorsprong en nitlegging van dagelijks gebruikte Nederduitsche spreekwoorden, opgeheldert tot grondig verstand der vaderlandsche moedertaal
Carolus Tuinman
1726Dutch
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Modern Arabia displayed
1811
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Symbolorum et emblematum centuriae tres
Joachim Camerarius
1605Latin
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The Persian and Turkish tales, compleat - Volume I
François Pétis de La Croix
1739
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mary-e-litchfield-the-nine-worlds
Mary E. Litchfield
1894
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Electra
Sophocles
1588