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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On Picket Duty, and Other Tales
Louisa May Alcott
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On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire
Charles Hardwick
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On the track of Ulysses; Together with an excursion in quest of the so-called Venus of Melos
William James Stillman
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Opera Stories from Wagner
Florence Akin
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Oral Tradition from the Indus
John Frederick Adolphus McNair, Thomas Lambert Barlow, L Fenn
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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth
Anonymous
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Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines
H. Otley Beyer
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Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade
Maksim Gorky, Isabel Florence Hapgood
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Other Tales and Sketches
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales
Sanni Metelerkamp, Constance Penstone
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Overland tales
Josephine Clifford McCrackin
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Pan-Worship, and Other Poems
Eleanor Farjeon
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Parsifal
Oliver Huckel, Richard Wagner
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Passamaquoddy Texts
John Dyneley Prince
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Paul Bunyan
James Stevens, Allen Lewis
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Paul Bunyan and His Loggers
Otis T Howd, Cloice R Howd
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Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Peach Blossom Shangri-la: Tao Hua Yuan Ji
Qian Tao
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Peasant Tales of Russia
Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, Jennie Harbour, Claud Field
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Peeps at many lands: Wales
Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton
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Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii
Nathaniel Bright Emerson
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Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Perseus
H. F. Scott Stokes
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Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers
William Sharp
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