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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Don't Think About It
William W Stuart
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Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886
Various
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Doom of the House of Duryea
Earl Peirce
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Dr. Bullivant
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1
Samuel Johnson
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Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
John Scudder
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Dragon moon
Henry Kuttner, Hannes Bok, Harold Saylor De Lay
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Dream Tales and Prose Poems
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Garnett
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Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
William Elliot Griffis
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Each Man Kills
Victoria Glad, Vincent Napoli
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Early English Hero Tales
Jeannette Augustus Marks
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East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
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Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross
Edmund Dulac
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
W. M. Flinders Petrie
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty
W. M. Flinders Petrie
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Eirik the Red's Saga
John Sephton
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El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections
José de Espronceda, George Tyler Northup
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Elfin land: and other poems
Benjamin West Ball
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Ellen of Villenskov, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Elves and Heroes
Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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Emelian the Fool: a tale
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology"
Various
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I
Francis James Child
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II
Francis James Child
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