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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Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
Francis Francis Channing Woodworth
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Stories and Ballads of the Far Past
Nora Nora Kershaw Chadwick
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Stories and Pictures
Isaac Loeb Peretz, Helena Frank
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Stories and Tales of the Irish: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
William Carleton, David Widger, M. L Flanery
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Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series
William Bottrell, Joseph Blight
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Stories from Northern Myths
Emilie Emilie Kip Baker
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Stories from The Arabian Nights
Laurence Housman, Edmund Dulac
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Stories from Virgil
Alfred John Church, Bartolomeo Pinelli
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Stories from Wagner
J. Walker McSpadden, Richard Wagner
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Stories from the Chap-Book
Katharine Lee Bates, Neith Boyce, Grace Ellery Channing, Edward Cummings, William Holloway, Edwin Lefevre, Anthony Leland, Maria Louise Pool, Clinton Ross, Octave Thanet, Anna Vernon Dorsey Williams
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Stories from the Greek Tragedians
Alfred John Church, John Flaxman
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Stories from the Iliad
Herbert Lord Havell
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Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2
Leigh Hunt, Lodovico Ariosto, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Torquato Tasso
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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France
Alfred John Church, George Morrow
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Stories of Christmas and the Bowie knife
J. Frank Dobie, Warren Hunter
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Stories of the Border Marches
John Lang
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Stories of the Nibelungen for Young People
Gertrude Gertrude Ruth Schottenfels, John Clitheroe Gilbert
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Stories of the Olden Time
James Johonnot
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Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
Isaac Landman
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Story Hour Readers — Book Three
Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon
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Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore
Benjamin Taylor
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Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore
Mary L Lewes
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Stray leaves from strange literature; and, Fantastics and other fancies
Lafcadio Hearn, Charles Woodward Hutson
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Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry
Alfred Alfred Mason Williams, Edward Clodd
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