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
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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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Les couplets similaires dans la vieille épopée française
Alfred Nordfelt
1893French
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Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtin
Date unknown
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Listen, children ... listen!
Wallace West
Date unknown
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Literary Fables of Yriarte
Tomás de Iriarte, George George Humphrey Devereux
Date unknown
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Little Cinderella
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Little Daffydowndilly
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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Little Engel: a ballad; with a series of epigrams from the Persian
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown
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Lola
Henny Kindermann, William Mackenzie, Agnes Blake
Date unknown
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Longhead: The Story of the First Fire
Charles Henry Robinson, Charles Livingston Bull
Date unknown
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Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales
Carl Van Vechten, William Livingston Alden, Peggy Bacon, Honoré de Balzac, Algernon Blackwood, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, William Henry Hudson, Thomas Thomas Allibone Janvier, Edgar Allan Poe, George Herbert Powell, Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Date unknown
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Love, Worship and Death: Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology
Rennell Rodd
Date unknown
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Lovers' Saint Ruth's, and Three Other Tales
Louise Imogen Guiney
Date unknown
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Lucky Pehr
August Strindberg, Velma Swanston Howard
Date unknown
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Lukundoo, and other stories
Edward Lucas White
Date unknown
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Lulu's Library, Volume 1 (of 3)
Louisa May Alcott
Date unknown
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Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3)
Louisa May Alcott
Date unknown
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Lycanthropus
C. Edgar Bolen
Date unknown
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Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry
Elizabeth Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, William Sharp, J Matthay
Date unknown
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Lyrical tales
Mary Robinson
Date unknown
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Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide
Clinton Scollard
Date unknown
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Mac Donald (1883, 1927) The Princess And Curdie
George MacDonald [illustrated by Frances Brundage]
1883
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Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
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Madame Margot: A grotesque legend of old Charleston
John Bennett
Date unknown
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Magic, Pretended Miracles, and Remarkable Natural Phenomena
Anonymous
Date unknown