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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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 Book of Old Ballads — Volume 3
Beverley Nichols
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A Book of Old Ballads — Volume 4
Beverley Nichols
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A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others
Charles Dickens, Herbert Herbert Winslow Collingwood, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Mrs Molesworth, Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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A Bundle of Ballads
Henry Morley
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A Burlesque Translation of Homer
Thomas Bridges, Francis Grose
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A Celtic Psaltery
Alfred Perceval Graves
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A Changed Man, and Other Tales
Thomas Hardy
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A Chinese Wonder Book
Norman Hinsdale Pitman, Chu-T'ang Li
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A Collection of Ballads
Andrew Lang
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A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes
James Drummond Anderson
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A Collection of Scotch Proverbs
Pappity Stampoy, Archer Taylor
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A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story
Francis William Bain
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A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the Dusk
Francis William Bain
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A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763)
William Shakespeare, George Colman, David Garrick
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A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece
Charles Stewart Given
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A Golfing Idyll; Or, The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews
Violet Flint, A. Islay Bannerman
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A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales
Jonathan Nield
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A History of Nursery Rhymes
Percy B Green
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A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, Percy J Billinghurst
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A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
Leigh Hunt, Richard Doyle
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A Legend of Goat Island
Peter Peter Augustus Porter, Cabell Breckinridge Porter
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A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems
Alfred Browning Stanley Tennyson
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A Legend of Reading Abbey
Charles MacFarlane
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A Little Book of Filipino Riddles
Frederick Starr
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