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 Four-Masted Cat-Boat, and Other Truthful Tales
Charles Battell Loomis, Florence Scovel Shinn
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The Garden of Eden: Stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament
George Hodges, Walter H Everett
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The Garden of Survival
Algernon Blackwood
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The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
John Charles Dent
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The Ghost Ship
Richard Middleton, Arthur Machen
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The Ghost World
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
William Henry Denham Rouse, W. Heath Robinson
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The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne: A Ballad
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Goblin Groom: a Tale of Dunse
Robert Orde Fenwick
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The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
Jack London
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The Gods of the North: an epic poem
Adam Oehlenschläger, William Edward Frye
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The Gold Horns
Adam Oehlenschläger, Edmund Gosse, George Borrow
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The Gold Of Fairnilee
Andrew Lang
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The Gold Sickle; Or, Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul
Eugène Sue, Daniel De Leon
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The Golden Goose Book
L. Leslie Brooke
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The Golden Legend
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Golgotha Dancers
Manly Wade Wellman
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The Great Galveston Disaster
Paul Lester, Richard Spillane
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The Great Indian Epics
John Campbell Oman, Valmiki
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The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Great Red Frog
Sidney Ransom
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The Great Return
Arthur Machen
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The Great Small Cat, and Others: Seven Tales
May May Elizabeth Southworth, Pedro Pedro Joseph Lemos
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The Great Taboo
Grant Allen
Date unknown