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
- Read free
Beast and man in India
John Lockwood Kipling
1891
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, J. C. Gorham
1870
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Curiosities of Olden Times
Sabine Baring-Gould
1869
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Early bardic literature, Ireland
Standish O'Grady
1879
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Fairy tales from gold lands
May Wentworth
1867
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Fragments of ancient poetry
James Macpherson
1760
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Georgian folk tales
Marjory Scott Wardrop
1894
- Read free
Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The
Padraic Colum, Willy Pogány
1921
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Greek Studies A Series Of Essays
Walter Pater
1894
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Gypsy folk-tales
Francis Hindes Groome
1899
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Hero tales & legends of the Rhine
Lewis Spence
1905
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Human Animals
Frank Hamel
1915
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Indian myth and legend
Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Warwick Goble
1913
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Italian popular tales
Thomas Frederick Crane
1885
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Kokoro
Lafcadio Hearn
1896
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Lamb's adventures of Ulysses
Charles Lamb, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Homer Charles Lamb
1808
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Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina
William Drake Westervelt
1910
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Les avantures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, Gabriel Richard, Louis Chambaud, John Miller
1725French
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Modern mythology
Andrew Lang
1897
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Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ..
Antoine Court de Gébelin, aîné Nyon, Gilbert Cazenaud, John M. Mason, Elizabeth Worcester Mills, Durand, John Adams, John Adams Library, Clément Pierre Marillier, John Adams Library BRL
1773French
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Moon lore
Timothy Harley
1885
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My dark companions and their strange stories
Henry M. Stanley, Henry Henry Morton Stanley, Walter Buckley
1893
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Nights with Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris, Milo Winter
1883
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Old Celtic romances
Patrick Weston Joyce
1879