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 Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 34, February 20, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 39, March 27, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 40, April 3, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 42, April 17, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 43, April 24, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 44, May 1, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 46, May 15, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 48, May 29, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 49, June 5, 1841
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 50, June 12, 1841
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The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores
Elsie Spicer Eells, Emma Emma Lillian Brock
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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient
Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Dugald Stewart Walker
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The Jesus Problem: A Restatement of the Myth Theory
John Mackinnon Robertson
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The Joss: A Reversion
Richard Marsh
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The Journal of American Folk-lore. Vol. VI.—July-September, 1893.—No. XXII.
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The Katcina altars in Hopi worship
Jesse Walter Fewkes
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The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish
Lady Gregory
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The King of Root Valley
Robert Reinick, T. von Oer
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The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
William Butler Yeats
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The King's Wake, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837
Various
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The Knights of the Round Table: Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail
William Henry Frost, Sydney Richmond Burleigh
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The Lady Poverty: A XIII. Century Allegory
da Parma Giovanni, Father Cuthbert, Montgomery Carmichael
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