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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Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History
James George Frazer
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Studies of Travel: Greece
Edward Edward Augustus Freeman
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Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)
John Addington Symonds
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Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh
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Superstition and Force
Henry Charles Lea
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Superstition in Medicine
Hugo Magnus, Julius Julius Lincoln Salinger
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Superstition in all ages
Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, Voltaire, Anna Knoop, Jean Meslier
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Superstition unveiled
Charles Southwell
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)
Richard Francis Burton
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)
Richard Francis Burton
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Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
James Gray
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Sweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron Times
George Manville Fenn
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Swiss Fairy Tales
William Elliot Griffis, George L Carlson
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Sylph Etherege
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Table traits, with something on them
Dr. Doran
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Taboo
James Branch Cabell
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Tales
George Crabbe
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Tales From Jókai
Mór Jókai, R. Nisbet Bain
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Tales From the "Phantasus," etc. of Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Tieck
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Tales Of Hearsay
Joseph Conrad
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Tales and Fantasies
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete
Jean de La Fontaine
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 01
Jean de La Fontaine
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 02
Jean de La Fontaine
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