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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A Maid in Arcady
Ralph Henry Barbour, Frederic J Von Rapp
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A Medley of Weather Lore
M. E. S Wright
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A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1
Albert Albert Samuel Gatschet
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A Mine of Faults
Francis William Bain
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A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)
Jacob Bryant
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A Pacific Coast Vacation
James Edwin Morris
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A Prose English Translation of Harivamsha
Manmatha Nath Dutt
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A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam
Manmatha Nath Dutt, Horace Hayman Wilson
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A Reading Book in Irish History
Patrick Weston Joyce
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A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
Charlotte Charlotte Mary Yonge
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A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide
John Ashton, Arthur C Behrend
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A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari, and Other Tales of South-West Africa
Fred Frederick Carruthers Cornell
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A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist
William Le Queux
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A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, George Webbe Dasent
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A Selection from the Poems of William Morris
William Morris, Francis Hueffer
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A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Charles Lawrence Young
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A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore
Fay-Cooper Cole
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A Syrup of the Bees
Francis William Bain
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A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch
Clarice E Richards
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A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
Clayton Edwards
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A Viking's love: and other tales of the North
Ottilie Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz, Arthur E Becher
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A Virginia Cousin, & Bar Harbor Tales
Burton Harrison
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A Vision of Venus; Or, A Midsummer-Night's Nightmare
Harry Pleon
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A book of the west. Volume 1, Devon
Sabine Baring-Gould
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