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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In colonial days
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank T Merrill
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In the Border Country
William Shillinglaw Crockett, Walter Shaw Sparrow, James Orrock
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In the Dark
Dale Clark
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In the Desert of Waiting: The Legend of Camel-back Mountain
Annie Annie Fellows Johnston
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In the Time That Was
James Frederic Thorne
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In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I
Harrison Harrison Smith Morris
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In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II
Harrison Harrison Smith Morris
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In the clouds
Charles Egbert Craddock
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris, David Widger
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Fiske
John Fiske, David Widger
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre
Queen Marguerite, David Widger
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, David Widger
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Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
Alice Alice Cunningham Fletcher
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Indian Ghost Stories
S Mukerji
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Indian Legends and Other Poems
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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Indian Poetry
Edwin Arnold
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Indian Tales
Rudyard Kipling
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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Frank Bird Linderman
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Indian and Other Tales
M. L Hope
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Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people
Cornelia Sorabji, Warwick Goble
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Inter-Ocean Hunting Tales
Edgar Fritz Randolph
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Introduction to the History of Religions
Crawford Howell Toy, Morris Jastrow
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Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship
Edward Carpenter
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Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Inostrantzev, Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro Nariman
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