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
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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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Sagen aus Hapsal, der Wiek, Ösel und Runö
Carl Russwurm, C Rußwurm
1861German
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The supernatural
John H King, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1892
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Yule-tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions ..
Benjamin Thorpe
1853
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An analysis of the Egyptian mythology
James Cowles Prichard
1819
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Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie
Franz Josef Vonbun
1862German
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Du culte des dieux fétiches, ou Parallèle de l'anciennereligion de l'Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie
Charles de Brosses
1760French
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Folk-tales of Kashmir
James Hinton Knowles
1888
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Miti, leggende e superstizioni del medio evo
Arturo Graf
1892Italian
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Phantasmion
Sara Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge Coleridge, Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852|* Sara Coleridge
1837
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Tales of Ancient Greece
George William Cox, George George William Cox
1868
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1642-1892
Parker Lindall Converse
1892
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Illustrations of the fairy mythology of A midsummer night's dream
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1845
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Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive, De operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi
Friedrich August Wolf, Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, James E. G. Zetzel, Christian Wilhelm Friedrich A. Wolf
1795Latin
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The legends of the St. Lawrence
Le Moine, Sir, 1825-1912, James MacPherson Le Moine
1898
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The nooks and by-ways of Italy
Craufurd Tait Ramage
1868
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Yorkshire legends and traditions
Thomas Parkinson, Thomas Rev Parkinson
1888
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A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
Samuel Adams Drake, Samuel Chamberlain, Harry Hansen, Frank T. Merrill
1883
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Bell's New pantheon; or, Historical dictionary of thegods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity
John Bell, Charles Grignion, J Thornthwaite, John. Hutton
1790
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Fasciculus chemicus, or, Chymical collections
Arthur Dee, Elias Ashmole, Thomas Cross, Jean d' Espagnet
1650
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Mopsa the fairy
Jean Ingelow, Dora Curtis
1869
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The dialect and folk-lore of Northamptonshire
Thomas Sternberg
1851
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Ting-a-ling
Frank R. Stockton, Edmund Birckhead Bensell
1870
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A new system
Jacob Bryant, Charles Barclay
1775
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Killarney legends
Thomas Crofton Croker
1831