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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British popular customs, present and past
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
1876
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Sagen der vorzeit
Leonhard Wächter, Georg Philipp Ludwig Leonhard Wächter
1787German
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The natural history of infidelity and superstition in contrast with Christian faith
Joseph Esmond Riddle
1852
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Catholic legends
Augusta Theodosia Drane
1800
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Curiosities of Indo-European tradition and folk-lore
Walter Keating Kelly
1863
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Devotion to the nine choirs of holy angels
Henri-Marie Boudon, Edward Healy Thompson
1869
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Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular superstitions, and history of England in the Middle Ages
Thomas Wright
1846
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Ethnography #9
Alan Klima
2019
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Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea
Jacobus de Voragine
1493
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Japanese fairy tale series.
Basil Hall Chamberlin, Lafcadio Hearn, James Curtis Hepburn, T. H. James, David Thomson
1885
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Legends of the Blessed Virgin
J.-A.-S Collin de Plancy, J.-A.-Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy
1852
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Living with Monsters
Ilana Gershon, Yasmine Musharbash
2023
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Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1
Andrew Lang
1877
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Mythic Discourses
Frog, Anna-Leena Siikala, Eila Stepanova
2012
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Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls
Jadran Mimica
2020
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Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted: Enryched with All Ye Ancyente Embellyshmentes
Joseph Crawhall
1883
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Polymetis
Joseph Spence, James Dodsley, Paul Fourdrinier, Robert Horsfield, Nicholas Tindal
1747
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Sea phantoms
Fletcher S. Bassett
1892
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Segnius irritant
W. W. Strickland, Erben, Karel Jaromír
1896
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The German novelists
Thomas Roscoe
1800
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The Mythology in our Language
Giovanni da Col, Stephan Palmié, Ludwig Wittgenstein
2017
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The Norse Sorceress
Sophie Bønding, Leszek Gardeła, Peter Pentz
2024
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The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans
John Lydgate, de Sainte-More Benoit, Robert Braham, Guido delle Colonne, Cretensis Dictys, Thomas Marsh, Thomas Jefferson McKee
1555
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The hereafter
James Fyfe
1890