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 Diamond Fairy Book
Various, Harold Robert Millar, Frank Cheyne Papé
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The Diary of Philip Westerly
Paul Compton
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The Divine Vision, and Other Poems
George William Russell
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The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
William Andrews
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The Dolphin in History
Ashley Montagu, John Cunningham Lilly
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The Doom of the Griffiths
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The Doors of Death
Arthur B Waltermire
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The Doré Bible Gallery, Volume 3
Gustave Doré
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The Dreamer of Dreams
Queen Marie, Edmund Dulac
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The Ebbing Of The Tide
Louis Becke
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The Edda, Volume 1
Lucy Winifred Faraday
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The Edda, Volume 2
Lucy Winifred Faraday
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The Egyptian Book of the dead
P. Le Page Renouf, Edouard Naville
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The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson
Sæmundur fróði, Snorri Sturluson, Joseph Andrew Blackwell, Benjamin Thorpe
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The Elene of Cynewulf translated into English prose
Cynewulf, Lucius Hudson Holt
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The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
447? BCE-386? BCE Aristophanes
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The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse
Thomas Cowherd
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The Enchanted Castle: A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland
Hartwell James, John John Rea Neill
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The Enchanted Island
Fannie Louise Apjohn
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The Epic of Gilgamish
Stephen Langdon
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The Epic of Hades, in Three Books
Lewis Morris
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
K. Langloh Parker, Andrew Lang
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The Eureka Springs Story
Otto Ernest Rayburn
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The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
Roswell Park
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