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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Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore
Elizabeth Mary Wright
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Sacred and legendary art, volume 1 (of 2)
Mrs. Jameson
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Saga of the oak, and other poems
William Henry Venable
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Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales
Rachel Harriette Busk
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Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before
George Turner
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Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen
George John Whyte-Melville, Samuel Edmund Waller
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Scenes and Portraits
Frederic Manning
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Scenes in North Wales
George Newenham Wright
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Scots proverbs, ancient and modern, selected from Allan Ramsay and others
Allan Ramsay
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Scottish Loch Scenery
Thomas Allan Croal, Alexander Francis Lydon
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Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained
Henry Lee
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Sea curse
Robert Robert Ervin Howard
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Second Book of Tales
Eugene Field
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Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica
Elizabeth Bisland, Anne Hoyt
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Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales
Gottfried Keller, Wolf von Schierbrand
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Selected Polish Tales
Else Else Cecilia Mendelssohn Benecke, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Zofia Nałkowska, Bolesław Prus, Władysław Stanisław Reymont, Adam Szymański, Stefan Żeromski, Marie Busch
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Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry
Kuno Meyer
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Selections from Viri Romae
C. F L'Homond, Robert Arrowsmith, Charles Knapp
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Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany, William Butler Yeats
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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths
Jeremiah Curtin, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
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Seneca myths and folk tales
Arthur Arthur Caswell Parker
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Serbian Fairy Tales
Elodie Lawton Mijatovich, Sidney Stanley
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Servian Popular Poetry
John Bowring, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Date unknown