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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Legends and Satires from Mediæval Literature
Martha Hale Shackford
Date unknown
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Legends and Tales
Bret Harte
Date unknown
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Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
Leonard William King
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Legends of Charlemagne
Thomas Bulfinch
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Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series
Charles Godfrey Leland
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Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)
William Drake Westervelt
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Legends of Lancashire
Peter Landreth
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Legends of Longdendale
Thomas Middleton
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Legends of Old Honolulu (Mythology)
William Drake Westervelt
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Legends of Saints & Sinners. Collected and Translated from the Irish
Douglas Hyde, Noel Noel Laura Nisbet
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Legends of Switzerland
Hélène Adeline Guerber
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Legends of Texas
J. Frank Dobie
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Legends of the Black Watch; or, Forty-second Highlanders
James Grant
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Legends of the City of Mexico
Thomas Thomas Allibone Janvier, Walter Appleton Clark
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Legends of the Gods
E. A. Wallis Budge
Date unknown
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Legends of the Kaw
Carrie De Voe
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Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride
Patrick Buchan
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Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets
Sabine Baring-Gould
Date unknown
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Legends of the Pike's Peak Region; The Sacred Myths of the Manitou
Ernest Whitney, William S Alexander, Thomas Thomas Clarkson Parrish
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Legends of the Rhine
Wilhelm Ruland
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Legends of the Saxon Saints
Aubrey De Vere
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Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
Carrie Hunter Willis, Etta Belle Walker
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Legends of the Wailuku
Charlotte Hapai, Will Herwig
Date unknown
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Legends, Tales and Poems
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Everett Ward Olmsted
Date unknown