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 Comic Almanack, Volume 2
William Makepeace Thackeray, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Horace Mayhew, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank
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The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.),
T. J. Llewelyn Prichard
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The Coming of Lugh: A Celtic Wonder-Tale Retold
Ella Young, Maud Gonne
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The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs
Randolph Caldecott, Austin Dobson, Edmund Evans
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The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop
George Parsons Lathrop
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The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales
Various
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The Cornish Riviera
Sidney Heath, E. W Haslehust
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The Created Legend
Fyodor Sologub, John Cournos
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The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
Rex Beach
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The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales
Susanne Susanne Katherina Knauth Langer, Helen Sewell
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The Crystal Palace and Other Legends
Marie Harriette Frary, Charles Maurice Stebbins, Herbert E Martini
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The Cutting of an Agate
William Butler Yeats
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The Dalby Bear, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Damned
Algernon Blackwood
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The Dangerous Scarecrow
Carl Jacobi
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The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study
Charles Francis Keary, Annie Keary, Henry Mee Keary
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The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine
Quatrelles, Gustave Doré, Tom Hood
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The Dead Lake, and Other Tales
Paul Heyse, Mary Wilson
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The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
Anonymous
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The Death of Balder
Johannes Ewald, George Borrow
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The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
William Morris
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The Delectable Duchy
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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The Dew of Their Youth
Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Date unknown