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
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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An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi
James Barry, William Adlard, Thomas Cadell, Royal Society of Arts
1783
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The Rhine, legends, traditions, history, from Cologne to Mainz
Joseph Snowe
1839
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Essais de critique religieuse
Albert Réville
1860French
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Gods and devils of mankind
Frank S. Dobbins, Frank Frank Stockton Dobbins
1897
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Legends and Myths of Hawaii
David Kalakaua
1888
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Sophocles
Sophocles, 496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Kaarlo Koskimies, Gergely Csiky, Euripides, Bernardo Segni, Gio. Batista Zannoni
1553
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The fairy-book
Joseph Alexander Adams
1836
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The story of the bear and his Indian wife
James Deans
1889
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Under the northern lights
Januarius Aloysius MacGahan
1876
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Über Mythologie und Cultus von Hawaii
Thomas Achelis
1895German
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Dr. J.J.I. von Döllinger's Fables respecting the popes in the Middle Ages
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
1872
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Faith-healing, Christian Science and kindred phenomena
James Monroe Buckley, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1892
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Russian fairy tales
Polevoĭ, P, R. Nisbet Bain, Petr Polevoi
1892
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A brief inquiry into causes of the poetic element in the Scottish mind
James George
1857
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A critical history of the Celtic religion and learning
John Toland
1740
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Deirdre of the sorrows
John Millington Synge
1905
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The legend of Perseus
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1894
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What they say in New England
Clifton Johnson
1896
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Demonologia; or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions. Credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology ... witchcraft, &c
J. S Forsyth
1827
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The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker
1909
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True Ghost Stories
Hereward Carrington
1915
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Anecdotes of the upper ten thousand
Grantley F. Berkeley, Grantley Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley
1867
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Friesische Sagen und Erzählungen
Christian Peter Hansen
1858German
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Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations
William Alexander Clouston
1887