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
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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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Daffydowndilly and the Golden Touch
Alpha Banta Benson, James Harvey Dulin
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Dahcotah: Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
Mary Mary Henderson Eastman
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Danish ballads
Smith-Dampier, Eleanor Mary
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Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893
Gottlieb William Leitner
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Dartmoor
Arthur Arthur Leslie Salmon, E. W Haslehust
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David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales
Julian Hawthorne
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David the Shepherd Boy
Amy Steedman
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David: A Tragedy
Cale Young Rice
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Day Symbols of the Maya Year
Cyrus Thomas
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Day and Night Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Day of the Druid
Knut Enferd
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Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn
William Henry Hudson
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Ernest William Hornung
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Dead Men Tell Tales
Harry Rimmer
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Dead letters
Maurice Baring
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Deccan Nursery Tales; or, Fairy Tales from the South
Charles Augustus Kincaid, Mahadev Visvanath Dhurandhar
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Deirdre wed and other poems
Herbert Trench
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Devil Stories: An Anthology
Maximilian Maximilian Josef Rudwin
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Devil tales
Virginia Frazer Boyle, Arthur Burdett Frost
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Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (1984)
United States. National Park Service
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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Did Betsey Ross Design the Flag of the United States of America?
Franklin Hanford
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Dig me no grave
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Virgil Finlay
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Domestic folk-lore
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Date unknown