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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Folklore of Wells: Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West
Rustom Pestonji Masani
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas
Cecil Henry Bompas
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Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall
Robert Stephen Hawker, Charles Edward Byles, J. Ley Pethybridge
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Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3)
Abraham Fornander, Thomas Thomas George Thrum
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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)
Abraham Fornander, Thomas Thomas George Thrum
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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)
Abraham Fornander, Thomas Thomas George Thrum
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Four Arthurian Romances
de Troyes Chrétien, William Wistar Comfort
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Four Plays of Aeschylus
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead
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Four Weird Tales
Algernon Blackwood
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Four and Twenty Fairy Tales
James Robinson Planché, Charlotte Rose de Caumont de La Force, Anne Claude Philippe Caylus, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Mlle de Lubert, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau Murat, Charles Perrault, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, Edward Henry Corbould, James Godwin, William Harvey
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Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Frey and His Wife
Maurice Hewlett, Maurice Greiffenhagen
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Frida; or, the lover's leap: a legend of the West Country
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance
Esaias Tegnér, Martha A. Lyon Holcomb, Thomas Thomas Addis Emmett Holcomb
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Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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Fritiofs Saga
Esaias Tegnér, Andrew Andrew Adin Stomberg
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From Headquarters: Odd Tales Picked up in the Volunteer Service
James James Albert Frye
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From a Terrace in Prague
B. Granville Baker
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From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types
Bernard Drachman, Abel G. Warshawsky
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From the Land of the Snow-Pearls: Tales from Puget Sound
Ella Higginson
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Full Speed Ahead: Tales from the Log of a Correspondent with Our Navy
Henry Beston
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Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale
Charlton Charlton Miner Lewis
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Gay gods and merry mortals: some excursions in verse
Robert Robert James Shores
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