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
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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Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry
Edward Felix Mendelssohn Benecke
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Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
Sargent Kayme
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Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems
Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas
Clements Clements Robert Markham
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Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic
John Wortabet
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Argentina, Legend and History
Garibaldi G. B Laguardia, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos Carlos Octavio Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre, Cincinato G. B Laguardia
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Armenian Legends and Poems
Zabelle C Boyajian, James Bryce Bryce, Aram Raffi
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Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Classic Traditions;
Robert Arnot, Gabriel Sundukyan, Florence Belle Collins
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Armenian legends and festivals
Louis Louis Angelo Boettiger
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Arne; Early Tales and Sketches
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Rasmus Björn Anderson
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Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
Edith Wharton
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Arthur
Frederick James Furnivall
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Arthur
Laurence Binyon
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Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy
William William Francis Gekle
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Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
Mary H Foster, Mabel Mabel Homer Cummings
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Aslauga's Knight
Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
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Asleep in Armageddon
Ray Bradbury
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Asneha, the legend of the opal
Carlo de Fornaro
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Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarions's "History of the Heavens"
John Frederick Blake, Camille Flammarion
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At War with Society; or, Tales of the Outcasts
James M'Levy
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At the gateways of the day
Padraic Colum, Juliette May Fraser
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Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediæval Romances and Legends
Eugene Mason
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Australian Fairy Tales
James Hume-Cook, William Morris Hughes, Christian Mary Emily Yandell Waller
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Australian fairy tales
Atha Westbury, A. J Johnson
Date unknown