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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American Indian Fairy Tales
William Trowbridge Larned, John Rae
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American Indian life
Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, C. Grant La Farge
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Among Congo cannibals
John H Weeks
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Among the Great Masters of Music
Walter Rowlands
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Among unknown Eskimo
Julian W Bilby, Archibald Lang Fleming
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Amusing prose chap-books
Robert Hays Cunningham
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An Address to Men of Science
Richard Carlile
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An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot
J. Wood Brown
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An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition
Francis William Bain
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An Irish precursor of Dante
Charles Stuart Boswell
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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
Morris Jastrow, Albert Tobias Clay
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An Old Woman's Tale
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado
Alexander McAllan
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Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Robert Bell, James Henry Dixon
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Ancient calendars and constellations
Emmeline Emmeline Mary Plunket
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Ancient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland
Lady Wilde
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Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew
Robert Robert Kilburn Root
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Andromache: A Play in Three Acts
Gilbert Murray
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Andromeda, and Other Poems
Charles Kingsley
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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
Alfred Alfred Marston Tozzer, Glover Glover Morrill Allen
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Animal Heroes
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Animal Stories from Eskimo Land
Renée Coudert Riggs, Daniel Saheyause Neuman, George Hood
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Ann Arbor Tales
Karl Edwin Harriman
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Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin
L. C Brovan
Date unknown