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 the west. Volume 2, Cornwall
Sabine Baring-Gould
Date unknown
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A brother to dragons, and other old-time tales
Amélie Rives
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A creel of Irish stories
Jane Barlow
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A doorway in Fairyland
Laurence Housman, Clemence Housman
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A dramatization of Longfellow's Hiawatha: A spectacular drama in six acts
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alice L De Vine
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A handy dictionary of mythology
Thomas Preston
Date unknown
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A marvelous history of Mary of Nimmegen
Harry Morgan Ayres, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw
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A short history of a long travel from Babylon to Bethel
Stephen Crisp, Anna Cox Brinton, Flo-Ann Goerke
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A syllabus of Kentucky folk-songs
Hubert Hubert Gibson Shearin, Josiah Henry Combs
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A voice from the inner world
A. Hyatt Verrill, Frank Frank Rudolph Paul
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Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems
Madison Julius Cawein
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Ade's Fables
George Ade
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Adventures of Buffalo Bill from boyhood to manhood
Prentiss Ingraham
Date unknown
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Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Theodore Alois Buckley
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Aesop Dress'd; Or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
Bernard Mandeville, John S Shea
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Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New Dress
621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Marmaduke Park
Date unknown
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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
John Payne
Date unknown
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Albertani Brixiensis Liber consolationis et consilii, ex quo hausta est fabula de Melibeo et Prudentia
da Brescia Albertano
1873Latin
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Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown
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Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 1 of 2
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Date unknown
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Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 2 of 2
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Date unknown
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Algonquin Legends of New England
Charles Godfrey Leland
Date unknown
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Allegheny Episodes
Henry Henry Wharton Shoemaker
Date unknown
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Amadis of Gaul, an opera
Nicola Francesco Haym
Date unknown