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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John Sherman; and, Dhoya
William Butler Yeats
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John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
Algernon Blackwood
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Jonah
Robert Nathan
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Joshua — Volume 2
Georg Ebers, Mary Mary Joanna Safford
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Judith, a Play in Three Acts; Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith
Arnold Bennett
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Jungle Tales
Bithia Mary Croker, John Charlton
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Kachina Dolls
W. Ben Hunt, Robert Robert Eugene Ritzenthaler
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Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike: Tales of the Gold Fields
Thad. Thaddeus William Henry Leavitt
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Kalevan uhri: Näytelmä 4:ssä näytöksessä
Eero Eerola
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Kenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea
Gordon Stables
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Killarney
Mary Gorges, Francis Sylvester Walker
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King Arthur in Cornwall
W. Howship Dickinson
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King Arthur in history and legend
William Lewis Jones
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King Diderik and the fight between the Lion and Dragon, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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King Hacon's Death, and Bran and the Black Dog: Two Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Kisington Town
Abbie Farwell Brown, Ruby Winckler
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Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Garnett
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Korean Fairy Tales
William Elliot Griffis
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Korean folk tales
Pang Im, Yuk Yi, James Scarth Gale
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Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
Lafcadio Hearn, Genjiro Yeto
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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems
Charles Godfrey Leland, Edwin Willard Deming, F. Berkeley Smith, John Dyneley Prince
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Kwan-yin
Stella Benson
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L'Arrabiata and Other Tales
Paul Heyse, Mary Wilson
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La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
Léonce Rabillon
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