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
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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Red Wagon Stories; or, Tales Told Under the Tent
Wells Hawks
Date unknown
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Reincarnations
James Stephens
Date unknown
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Religion and Art in Ancient Greece
Ernest Arthur Gardner
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Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures
Logan Mitchell
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Return of a Legend
Raymond Raymond Zinke Gallun, Ed Emshwiller
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Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
Sophie Lee Foster
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Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel
Charlotte Brontë
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Rig Veda Americanus
Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Ring Once for Death
Robert Arthur, Ernest Kurt Barth
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Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader
Francis Ritchie, John Copeland Kirtland
Date unknown
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Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2)
John Pendleton Kennedy
Date unknown
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Robin Hood
Joseph Ritson, Thomas Bewick, Edwin Buckman, Alfred Holst Tourrier
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Robin Hood
J. Walker McSpadden
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Robin Hood
Paul Creswick, Newell Convers Wyeth
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Roger Trewinion
Joseph Hocking, Gunning King
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Romances of Old Japan
Yei Theodora Ozaki
Date unknown
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Romances of the old town of Edinburgh
Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
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Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces
George Borrow
Date unknown
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Romantic legends of Spain
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Cornelia Frances Bates, Katharine Lee Bates
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Romulus
Jacob Abbott
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Round the year with the stars
Garrett Putman Serviss
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Rudy and Babette; Or, The Capture of the Eagle's Nest
Hans Christian Andersen, Helen Stratton
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Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories Rendered into English
Moses Gaster
Date unknown
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Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs
Robert Bloomfield
Date unknown