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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Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme
Lydia Maria Child
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Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
Epiphanius Wilson
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Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance
Morris Jastrow
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Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals
James James Seguin De Benneville
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Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.
James George Frazer
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Baldy of Nome
Esther Birdsall Darling
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Ballad Book
Katharine Lee Bates
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Ballads
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Ballads from the Danish and Original Verses
Smith-Dampier, Eleanor Mary
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Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth
Frank Sidgwick
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Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Frank Sidgwick
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Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance
Frank Sidgwick
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Bamboo Tales
Ira Ira Louis Reeves, J. Alexander Mackay
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Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)
Matthew L Hewat
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Barbarossa, and Other Tales
Paul Heyse, L. C. S
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Barlaam and Ioasaph
Saint John of Damascus, Harold Mattingly, George Ratcliffe Woodward
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Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language
Wentworth Webster, Julien Vinson
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Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs
Minnie Martin
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Battle Out of Time
Dwight V Swain
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Bay of Seven Islands, and other poems
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Beasts & Men
Jean de Boschère
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Beauty and the Beast
Unknown
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Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
Bayard Taylor
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Beauty and the beast
Eleanor Vere Boyle
Date unknown