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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Fairy Realm: A Collection of the Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse
Tom Hood, Gustave Doré
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Fairy Tales Told in the Bush
Sister Agnes
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Fairy Tales, Volume 1 (of 2)
Marion Florence Lansing, Charles Copeland
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Fairy Tales, Volume 2 (of 2)
Marion Florence Lansing, Charles Copeland
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Fairy tales from South Africa
Sarah F Bourhill, Beatrice Beatrice Louise Drake, W. Herbert Holloway
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Fairy tales from far and near
Katharine Pyle
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Famous stories from foreign countries
Edna Worthley Underwood
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Far off things
Arthur Machen
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Faustus
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, George Borrow
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Favorite Fairy Tales
Logan Marshall
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Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women
Various, Peter Newell
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Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse
Harrison Weir
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Fawn in the wood
Unknown
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Fearful Rock
Manly Wade Wellman, Harold Saylor De Lay
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Female Warriors, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Ellen Ellen Creathorne Clayton
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Female Warriors, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Ellen Ellen Creathorne Clayton
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Fenris, the Wolf: A Tragedy
Percy MacKaye
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Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art
John Vinycomb
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Fifty Famous Fables
Lida Lida Brown McMurry
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Fifty-One Tales
Lord Dunsany
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Filipino Popular Tales
Dean Spruill Fansler
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Finnish Arts; Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, a Ballad
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
John Wesley Powell, James Owen Dorsey, Albert Albert Samuel Gatschet, Edward Edward Singleton Holden, Garrick Mallery, James Constantine Pilling, Stephen Return Riggs, Charles C Royce, Harry Crécy Yarrow
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