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 Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius
Rowland Smith, Achilles Tatius, of Emesa Heliodorus, Longus
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The Greek View of Life
G. Lowes Dickinson
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The Green Forest Fairy Book
Loretta Ellen Brady, Alice Bolam Preston
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The Green Helmet and Other Poems
William Butler Yeats
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The Grey Woman and other Tales
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The Greylock: A Fairy Tale
Georg Ebers
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The Grotesque in Church Art
T. Tindall Wildridge
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The Guardians of the Columbia
John John Harvey Williams
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The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales
Mayne Reid
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The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories
Aryasura, F. Max Müller, Jacob Samuel Speyer
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The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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The Haunters & The Haunted
Ernest Rhys
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The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
S. N Haleole, Martha Warren Beckwith
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The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow: A Tradition of Pennsylavania
Robert Montgomery Bird
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The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales
Sidney Levett Yeats
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The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina
Wilbur Gleason Zeigler, Ben S Grosscup
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The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery
Samuel Adams Drake
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The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales
Bret Harte
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The Heroic Age
H. Munro Chadwick
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The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers
Georg Ebers
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The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
Charles Charles Eugene Flandrau
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The History of Patient Grisel, 1619
George Laurence Gomme, Henry Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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The History of Sir Richard Whittington
Henry Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date unknown
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The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome
George Laurence Gomme, Henry Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date unknown