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 of All Countries
Anthony Trollope
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Tales of Aztlan; The Romance of a Hero of Our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a Western Pioneer and Other Tales
George Hartmann
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Tales of Chinatown
Sax Rohmer
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Tales of Destiny
Edmund Mitchell
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Tales of English Minsters: Hereford
Elizabeth Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
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Tales of English Minsters: St. Paul's
Elizabeth Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
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Tales of Fantasy and Fact
Brander Matthews
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Tales of Folk and Fairies
Katharine Pyle
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Tales of Humour, Gallantry & Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian
George Cruikshank, Thomas Roscoe, John Yonge Akerman
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Tales of Ind, and Other Poems
Thottakadu Ramakrishna Pillai
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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance
Andrew Lang, J. C Allen, Henry Justice Ford
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Tales of Laughter
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
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Tales of Mean Streets
Arthur Morrison
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Tales of Men and Ghosts
Edith Wharton
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Tales of My Native Town
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Joseph Hergesheimer, Gaetano Ettore Raffaele Mantellini
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Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3)
William Pitt Scargill, Barbarina Dacre, Mrs. Loudon
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Tales of My Time, Vol. 2 (of 3)
William Pitt Scargill, Barbarina Dacre, Mrs. Loudon
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Tales of Our Coast
Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Harold Frederic, Gilbert Parker, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Clark Russell, Frank Brangwyn
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Tales of Romance
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed
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Tales of Secret Egypt
Sax Rohmer
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Tales of South Africa
Henry Anderson Bryden
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Tales of Trail and Town
Bret Harte
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Tales of Two Countries
Alexander Lange Kielland, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, William Archer
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Tales of Two Countries
Maksim Gorky
Date unknown