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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
- Read free
The history of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London
George Cruikshank, Allen Robert Branston, John Golby Rusher
1820
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The life of St. Cecilia from ms. Ashmole 43 and ms. Cotton Tiberius E. VII
Cecilia Saint, Saint. Legend Cecilia, Bertha Ellen Dickinson
1898
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The old story books of England
William John Thoms, John Absolon, John Franklin, Frederick Tayler
1845
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The saints of Erin
L. Tachet de Barneval
1857
- Read free
Theatrvm chemicvm britannicum
Elias Ashmole, Thomas Cross, John Goddard, Robert Vaughan
1652
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Þe liflade of St. Juliana
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Edmund Brock, of Nicomedia Juliana Saint
1872
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Acadia
Philip Henry Smith, Charles Card Smith, Philip Philip Henry Smith
1884
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Fairy tales from far Japan
Susan Ballard
1898
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Golden legends of the olden time
John Stroughton
1885
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The white wife
Cuthbert Bede, James H. Graff
1865
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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
Wirt Sikes, Thomas Henry Thomas
1880
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Old-world Japan
Frank Rinder
1895
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On the ancient British, Roman and Saxon antiquities and folk-lore of Worcestershire
Jabez Allies
1852
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The new Suffolk garland
John Glyde
1866
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The serpent myths of ancient Egypt
William Ricketts Cooper
1873
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Maori tales & legends
Kate McCosh Clark
1896
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Popular romances of the west of England, or, The drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall
Robert Hunt, George Cruikshank, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1865
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The cults of the Greek states
Lewis Richard Farnell, publisher Oxford University Press
1896
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The moral of flowers
Rebecca Hey, Mrs Hey
1833
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Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique
Antoine-Joseph Pernety
1758French
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The facetious nights of Straparola
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
1897
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Tales of the Teutonic lands
George W. Cox, George George William Cox, Eustance Hinton Jones
1872
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Die religion der Römer
Emil Aust
1899German
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Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world
Jeremiah Curtin
1895