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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Snap: A legend of the Lone Mountain
Clive Phillipps-Wolley, Henry George Willink
Date unknown
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Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales
Ruth McEnery Stuart
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Solomon and Solomonic Literature
Moncure Daniel Conway
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Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro
William Henry Thomas
Date unknown
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Some Historic Trees
Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Date unknown
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Some Zulu Customs and Folk-lore
L. H Samuelson
Date unknown
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Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances
621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Randolph Caldecott, Alfred Caldecott
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Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
William Darnall MacClintock, Porter Lander MacClintock
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Songs of Ukraina, with Ruthenian poems
Florence Randal Livesay, Pavlo Krat
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Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land
Charles Godfrey Leland
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Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp
John Avery Lomax, William Lyon Phelps
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South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Date unknown
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South Sea Foam
Arnold Safroni-Middleton
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South Sea Tales
Jack London
Date unknown
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South-African Folk-Tales
James A Honey
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Spanish Papers
Washington Irving
Date unknown
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Spare Hours
John Brown
Date unknown
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Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, 496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Goldwin Smith
Date unknown
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Spiritual Tales
William Sharp
Date unknown
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Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago
Alexander Dick
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St. Andrews Ghost Stories
William Thomas Linskill
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St. Nicholas
George Harley McKnight
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Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
Charles Charles Kellogg Field, Will Irwin
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Stephen Archer, and Other Tales
George MacDonald
Date unknown