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 War
Lord Dunsany
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Tales of Wonder
Lord Dunsany
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Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
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Tales of a Cruel Country
Gerald Cumberland
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Tales of a Traveller
Washington Irving
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Tales of a Vanishing River
Earl Earl Howell Reed
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Tales of an Old Sea Port
Wilfred Harold Munro
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Tales of fishes
Zane Grey
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Tales of lonely trails
Zane Grey
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Tales of the Air Mail Pilots
Burt Burt Morton McConnell
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Tales of the Caliph
Horatio Nelson Crellin
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Tales of the Chesapeake
George Alfred Townsend
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Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London, George Varian
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Tales of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett
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Tales of the Long Bow
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Tales of the Malayan Coast
Rounsevelle Wildman
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Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India
Flora Annie Webster Steel, Richard Carnac Temple
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Tales of the R.I.C.
Unknown
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Tales of the Ridings
Frederic William Moorman, Charles Edwyn Vaughan
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Tales of the Road
Charles Charles Newman Crewdson
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Tales of the Samurai
Asataro Miyamori
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Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India
Lucas Cleeve, Pandit Natesa Sastri
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Tales of the Trail: Short Stories of Western Life
Henry Inman
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Tales of the Trains
Charles Lever, Hablot Knight Browne
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