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
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- 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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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 05 (of 15), German
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese
Charles Morris
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 13 (of 15), King Arthur (1)
Charles Morris, Thomas Malory
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2)
Charles Morris, Thomas Malory
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Historical Parallels, vol. 1 (of 3)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)
Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)
Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch
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History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Samuel Astley Dunham
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History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)
Gaston Maspero, Archibald Henry Sayce, M. L. McClure
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History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)
George Grote
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History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12)
George Grote
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History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)
active 796 Nennius, John Allen Giles
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Hiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii
Edmund Edmund Pearson Dole
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Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
William Henry Harrison Murray
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Home Scenes and Home Influence; a series of tales and sketches
Timothy Shay Arthur
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Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey
W. Lucas Collins
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Homespun Tales
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers
John Brown, William A. McCullough, Jessie Curtis Shepherd
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Houlihan's Equation
Walter J Sheldon
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