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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Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard Snarenswayne, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Gudrun: A Mediaeval Epic
Mary Pickering Nichols
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Guernsey Folk Lore
Edgar MacCulloch, Edith Edith Frances Carey
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Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose
de France Marie, Caroline Watts, Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston
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Hafbur and Signe: a ballad
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Haida texts and myths
John Reed Swanton
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Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1
Charles Charles George Harper, Paul Hardy
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Hanit the Enchantress
Garrett Chatfield Pier
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Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
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Harbor Tales Down North
Norman Duncan
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Hasisadra's Adventure
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
Charles Charles Watts Whistler
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Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii
George Cornelius Ruhle, Donald M Black
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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)
William Drake Westervelt
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Hawaiian folk tales
Thomas Thomas George Thrum
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Hawaiian idylls of love and death
Herbert Herbert Henry Gowen
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Heads and tales
Adam White
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Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern
Various
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Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Maurice Maurice Henry Harris
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Heel
Philip José Farmer, Virgil Finlay
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Helen Redeemed and Other Poems
Maurice Hewlett
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Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
Sara Teasdale
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Heliodora, and Other Poems
Hilda Doolittle
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Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia
Arthur Stringer
Date unknown