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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The Golden Asse
Apuleius, William Adlington
Date unknown
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The bytal-pacheesee; or the twenty-five tales of the demon
BidyÄsÄgara, ĪÅvaracandra
1852
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Ups and downs in the life of a distressed gentleman
William William Leete Stone
1836
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
1600
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Gli orti Esperidi
Nicola Conforto, Giovanni Di Simone, Pietro Metastasio
1751Italian
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In the Midst of Life. Tales of Civilians
Ambrose Bierce
1891
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Jack the giant killer
William Marshall Craig, John Lee, John Golby Rusher
1820
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Jack the giant-killer ; and, Beauty and the beast
Robert Anning Bell
1894
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
1557
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River legends; or, Father Thames and Father Rhine. With illus. by Gustave Doré
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne, Gustave Doré
1875
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Runic odes from the Norse tongue
Thomas James Mathias
1790
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes - I - Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1857
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The history of Thomas Hickathrift
Printed for the booksellers
1835
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The monks of Lerins. and other tales of old time
1859
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The tales of the sixty mandarins
P.V Ramasvami Raju
1886
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The transmigrations of Indur, an Indian brachman
John Aikin, Houlston and Co
1829
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The yellow dwarf
Madame d' Aulnoy, Walter Crane, Elizabeth d'Hauteville Kean
1875
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Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer
1483
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Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
1603
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Dictionnaire portatif de mythologie, pour l'intelligence des poetes, de l histoire fabuleuse, des monumens historiques, des bas-reliefs, des tableaux, &c
Claustre, André de
1765French
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Littérature, voyages et poésies. I. Littérature et voyages
Jean-Jacques Ampère
1850French
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Muntakhab al-naḥv
Amīr Ḥaydar Ḥusaynī Bilgrāmī, 1802, author
1700Persian
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Ruské národní pohádky
Alexandr Nikolajevič Afanasiev
1883Czech
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Επτά επί Θήβας
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Ioannes N. Grypares
Date unknownGreek