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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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 (of 4)
R. Brimley Johnson, W. Cubitt Cooke
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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 4 (of 4)
R. Brimley Johnson, W. Cubitt Cooke
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Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series
Robert Hunt
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Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
Herbert Mayo
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Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre
Hugh Walpole
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Prairie Smoke, a Collection of Lore of the Prairies
Melvin Melvin Randolph Gilmore
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts
F. Victor Dickins
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Prince Hagen
Upton Sinclair
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Prince Jan, St. Bernard
Forrestine Forrestine Cooper Hooker
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Prince Ragnal, and other holiday verses
Eleanor Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly
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Princess Badoura: A tale from the Arabian Nights
Laurence Housman, Edmund Dulac
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Princess White Flame
Gertrude Crownfield, Anne Merriman Peck
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Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy
Anonymous
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Proud Signild, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Psyche
Louis Couperus, Dion Clayton Calthrop, Benjamin Shepherd Berrington
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Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
J. Sadlier
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Putois
Anatole France
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Pygmalion and the Image
William Morris, Fitz Roy Carrington, Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Queen Moo's Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire
Alice Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
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Quotes and Images From The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, David Widger
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Rattle of bones
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Hugh Rankin
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Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Walter Scott
Date unknown