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
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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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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)
John Rhys
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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)
John Rhys
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Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
Louey Chisholm
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Celtic religion in pre-Christian times
Edward Anwyl
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Cerberus, the dog of Hades: The history of an idea
Maurice Bloomfield
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Chalk face
Waldo David Frank
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 42, Vol. I, October 18, 1884
Various
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 704
Various, Robert Chambers, William Chambers
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Walter William Skeat
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Walter William Skeat
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Child Maidelvold, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories
Watty Piper
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Chinese Folk-Lore Tales
John Macgowan
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
Isaac Taylor Headland
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1
F. Max Müller
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3
F. Max Müller
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4
F. Max Müller
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Chitimacha Notebook: Writings of Emile Stouff—A Chitimacha Chief
Emile Stouff, Marcia G Gaudet
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Christian Gellert's Last Christmas
Berthold Auerbach
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Christmas Outside of Eden
Coningsby Dawson, Eugene Francis Savage
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Christmas Stories And Legends
Phebe A Curtiss
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Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse
Eugene Field, Florence Edith Storer
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Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
Clement A Miles
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Christmas tales of Flanders
André de Ridder, Jean de Boschère, M. C. O Morris
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