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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Tales from Bohemia
Robert Neilson Stephens
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Tales from Dickens
Hallie Erminie Rives, Charles Dickens
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Tales from Gorky
Maksim Gorky, R. Nisbet Bain
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Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V
Various
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Tales from Two Hemispheres
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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Tales from a Dugout
Arthur Guy Empey
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Tales from a Famished Land
Edward Edward Eyre Hunt
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Tales from a Rolltop Desk
Christopher Morley, Walter Jack Duncan
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Tales from the Arabic — Complete
John Payne
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Tales from the Arabic — Volume 01
John Payne
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Tales from the Arabic — Volume 02
John Payne
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Tales from the Arabic — Volume 03
John Payne
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Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, George Webbe Dasent
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Tales from the German, Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors
John Oxenford, Wilhelm Hauff, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Karl Leberecht Immermann, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Karl August Musäus, Friedrich Schiller, C. F. van der Velde, C. A Feiling
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Tales from the German. Volume I.
C. F. van der Velde, Nathaniel Greene
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Tales from the German. Volume II.
C. F. van der Velde, Nathaniel Greene
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Tales from the Gesta Romanorum
Charles Swan
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Tales from the Hindu Dramatists
R. N Dutta, J. S Zemin
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Tales from the Old French
Isabel Butler
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Tales from the Operas
George Frederick Pardon
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Tales from the Telling-House
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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Tales from the Veld
Ernest Glanville, M Nisbet
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Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories
Will Will Croft Barnes
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Tales grotesque and curious
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Glenn Glenn William Shaw
Date unknown