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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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
E. A. Wallis Budge
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The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance
William Ouseley, William Alexander Clouston
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The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt
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The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire
Christopher James Davison Ingledew
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The Beacon Second Reader
James James Hiram Fassett
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The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories
Grant Allen
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The Beggar's Purse: A Fairy Tale of Familiar Finance
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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The Bible for Young People
Gwendolen Jackson Gilder
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The Bible, King James version, Book 27: Daniel
Anonymous
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The Black Bear
William William Henry Wright, John Barrett Kerfoot
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The Black Poodle, and Other Tales
F Anstey
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The Blood of Rachel, a Dramatization of Esther, and Other Poems
Cotton Noe
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The Blue Rose Fairy Book
Maurice Baring
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The Book of Brave Old Ballads
John Gilbert
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The Book of Buried Treasure
Ralph Delahaye Paine
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The Book of Delight, and other papers
Israel Abrahams
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The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading
Frances Jenkins Olcott, Milo Winter
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The Book of Fables and Folk Stories
Horace Elisha Scudder
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The Book of Hallowe'en
Ruth Edna Kelley
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The Book of Stories for the Story-teller
Fanny Fanny Eliza Coe
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The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story
Hélène Adeline Guerber, J. Berg Esenwein
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The Book of the Sword
Richard Francis Burton
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
John Payne
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
John Payne
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