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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The Celtic Magazine, Vol I, No. IV, February 1876
Various, Alexander Macbain, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Mackenzie
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The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875
Various, Alexander Macbain, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Mackenzie
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The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876
Various, Alexander Macbain, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Mackenzie
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The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1876
Various, Alexander Macbain, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Mackenzie
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The Chief Mate's Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea
T. Jenkins Hains
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The Child's World: Third Reader
Hetty Sibyl Browne, William Knox Tate, Sarah Withers
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The Chinese Dragon
L. Newton Hayes, Foo Sec Fong
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The Chinese Fairy Book
Richard Wilhelm
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The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems
Vachel Lindsay
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The Christian Mythology
Ethel Brigham Leatherbee
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The Christmas city
Lewis Gaston Leary
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The Cities of the Sun
Elizabeth Cannon Porter
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)
Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch
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The Clyde Mystery
Andrew Lang
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8)
William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8)
William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8)
William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8)
William Butler Yeats
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02
Ambrose Bierce
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 08
Ambrose Bierce
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The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 1 of 2
Dougal Graham, George Mac Gregor
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The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2
Dougal Graham, George Mac Gregor
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The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce
William Denison Lyman
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The Comic Almanack, Volume 1
William Makepeace Thackeray, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Horace Mayhew, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank
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