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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Seven Icelandic Short Stories
Ásgeir Pétursson, Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson
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Seven Legends
Gottfried Keller, Martin Wyness
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Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Class Book
Mary Forman Ledyard, Abertine D Mandall
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Seven Mohave Myths
Alfred Louis Kroeber
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Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
William Charles Griggs
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Short Sketches from Oldest America
John John Beach Driggs
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Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Signs, omens and superstitions
Astra Cielo
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Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas
Alice Dracott
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Simple Simon
Anonymous
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Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
Anonymous, Edmund Dulac
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Sinhalese Folklore Notes, Ceylon
Arthur A Perera
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose
Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston, M. M Crawford
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Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys
Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston, Morris Meredith Williams
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Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
Richard Morris
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Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
Andrew Lang
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Six prize Hawaiian stories of the Kilohana Art League
Emma Louise Smith Dillingham, William William Nevins Armstrong, George Harrison De La Vergne, James James Walter Girvin
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Sixteen Poems
William Allingham, William Butler Yeats
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Sixth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology. (1888 N 06 / 1884-1885)
John Wesley Powell, Franz Boas, James Owen Dorsey, William Henry Holmes, Cyrus Thomas
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Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick
Frederick Beavan
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Sketches from Memory
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Sketches of Aboriginal Life
V. V Vide
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Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
Robert Dalziel Cumming
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Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
H. Rider Haggard
Date unknown