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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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume III
Francis James Child
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV
Francis James Child
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V
Francis James Child
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI
Francis James Child
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIII
Francis James Child
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Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages
Wilhelm Wägner, W. S. W Anson, M. W Macdowall
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Ermeline
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Essays and Tales
Joseph Addison, Henry Morley
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Essays from the Chap-Book
Various
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Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)
Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
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Essays of an Americanist
Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Essays on the Greek Romances
Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
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Etain the Beloved, and Other Poems
James Henry Cousins
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Europa's Fairy Book
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
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Eventide
Effie Afton
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Everybody's Book of Luck
Anonymous
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Everychild
Louis Dodge, Blanche Fisher Laite
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Evil eye in the western Highlands
Robert Craig Maclagan
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Fables
Ronald Ross
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Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
Thomas Newbigging
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Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales
Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener
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Fables for the Times
Henry Wallace Phillips, Thomas Starling Sullivant
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Fables of Flowers for the Female Sex. With Zephyrus and Flora, a Vision
John Huddlestone Wynne
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Fairies Afield
Mrs Molesworth, Gertrude Demain Hammond
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