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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Belgian Fairy Tales
William Elliot Griffis, George L Carlson
Date unknown
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Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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Beowulf
Francis Barton Gummere
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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
J. Lesslie Hall
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Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn
Raymond Wilson Chambers
Date unknown
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Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others.
621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Robert Dodsley, Oliver Goldsmith, Edwin Pearson, Thomas Bewick
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Beyond the sunset
Arthur D. Howden Smith
Date unknown
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Bibliothèque d'Apollodore, vol. 2
Apollodorus of Athens, Etienne Clavier
1805French
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Birch Bark Legends of Niagara
Owahyah
Date unknown
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Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore
Ernest Ingersoll
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Bits of Blarney
R. Shelton Mackenzie
Date unknown
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Black Tales for White Children
Chauncy Hugh Stigand, Nancy Yulee Stigand, John Hargrave
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Black hound of death
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Harold Saylor De Lay
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Black magic
Marjorie Bowen
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
Various
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Blue-beard: A Contribution to History and Folk-lore
Thomas Wilson
Date unknown
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Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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Bog-Myrtle and Peat
Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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Bohemian Days: Three American Tales
George Alfred Townsend
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Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy
Richard Richard Green Moulton, 526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, 481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, 496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles
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Border Ghost Stories
Howard Pease
Date unknown
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Boys of the Old Sea Bed: Tales of Nature and Adventure
Charles Allen McConnell
Date unknown
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Brazilian Tales
Isaac Goldberg, Medeiros e Albuquerque, Henrique Coelho Netto, Carmen Dolores, Machado de Assis
Date unknown
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Brendan's Fabulous Voyage
John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Bute
Date unknown