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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Household Gods: A Comedy
Aleister Crowley
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Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol
Rachel Harriette Busk
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How The Raven Died
Alfred Henry Lewis
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How joy was found
Isobel Wylie Hutchison, James MacDougall
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle
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Humorous Ghost Stories
Dorothy Scarborough
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Humours of Irish Life
Charles Charles Larcom Graves
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Hymen
Hilda Doolittle
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Hypolympia; Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
Edmund Gosse
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I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land
Waterman Spaulding Chapman Russell
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Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary
Henry Sweet
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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria
Elphinstone Dayrell
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Il Novellino: The hundred old tales
Edward Storer
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Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages
James Owen Dorsey, Albert Albert Samuel Gatschet, Stephen Return Riggs
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Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:
Francis Douce
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In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date
Clara Louise Burnham, Morgan Dennis
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In Court and Kampong
Hugh Charles Clifford
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In Great Waters: Four Stories
Thomas Thomas Allibone Janvier, Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
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In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India
Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets, Elma McNeal Childs
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In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
August Strindberg, Ellie Schleussner
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In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 1 of 2)
Fridtjof Nansen, Arthur G Chater
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In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2)
Fridtjof Nansen, Arthur G Chater
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In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3
Harrison Harrison Smith Morris
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