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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Breton Legends
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
John Boynton Priestley
Date unknown
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British Popular Customs, Present and Past
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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Broad Grins
George Colman
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Brown John's Body
Winston Winston Kinney Marks
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Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Bubbles of the Foam
Francis William Bain
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Viggo Fausbøll, Robert Cæsar Childers, T. W. Rhys Davids
Date unknown
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Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy
Percy Allen, Marjorie Nash
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By the Barrow River, and Other Stories
Edmund Leamy, Katharine Tynan
Date unknown
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Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia
Marion Chilton Harrison, Hugh Stewart
Date unknown
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Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South
Sarah Johnson Cocke
Date unknown
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Byways in British Archaeology
Walter Johnson
Date unknown
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Béarn and the Pyrenees
Louisa Stuart Costello
Date unknown
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CAF - Folklore Old Indian Orchard By Chester Fidlar
VCPL Special Collections department
1896
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California: The Land of the Sun
Mary Austin, Sutton Palmer
Date unknown
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Campfire Tales of Jackson Hole
Various, G. Bryan Harry
Date unknown
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Canada
Beckles Willson, Henry Sandham
Date unknown
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Cape Breton Tales
Harry James Smith, Edith Smith, Oliver M Wiard
Date unknown
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Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten Cities
Ian C Hannah, Edith B Hannah
Date unknown
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Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends
Constance Louisa Adams, Lucius Henry O'Brien
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Caucasian Legends
Abraam Abraamovich Gul'bat, Sergiei Veselitskii-Bozhidarovich
Date unknown
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Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.
William Henry Rhodes, Daniel O'Connell
Date unknown
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
Date unknown