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 Holy Cross and Other Tales
Eugene Field
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The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey
Father Ignatius
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The Homeric Hymns
Andrew Lang
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The House of Cariboo, and Other Tales from Arcadia
A. Paul Gardiner, Robert A Graef
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The Immortal Lure
Cale Young Rice
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The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends
Cornelius Mathews, John McLenan
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The Invaders
Benjamin Ferris, Vincent Napoli
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The Invention of Printing.
Theodore Low De Vinne
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The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLII
John John Seely Hart, Mary Mary Henderson Eastman
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The Irish Fairy Book
Alfred Perceval Graves, George Denham
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 02, July 11, 1840
Various
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 04, July 25, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 07, August 15, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 15, October 10, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 16, October 17, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 17, October 24, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 18, October 31, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 20, November 14, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 21, November 21, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 24, December 12, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 26, December 26, 1840
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 27, January 2, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 28, January 9, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 30, January 23, 1841
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