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
- Read free
The Legends of San Francisco
George George Walter Caldwell
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The Legends of the Iroquois
William Walker Canfield
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The Lenâpé and Their Legends
Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Candide Chalippe, Hilarion Duerk
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes
Samuel Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I)
Paul Ambroise Bigandet
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The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume II)
Paul Ambroise Bigandet
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The Literary Shop, and Other Tales
James James Lauren Ford
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The Literary World Seventh Reader
John Calvin Metcalf, Hetty Sibyl Browne, Sarah Withers
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The Literature of Arabia
Epiphanius Wilson
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
E. A. Wallis Budge
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The Little Tea Book
Arthur Gray, George Hood
Date unknown
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The Living Mummy
Ambrose Pratt, Louis D Fancher
Date unknown
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The Log of the Ark, by Noah; Hieroglypics by Ham
Irwin Leslie Gordon, Alfred Joseph Frueh
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The Long Arm
Franz Nabl, Roy Temple House
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The Lore of the Honey-Bee
Tickner Edwardes
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The Lost Dryad
Frank R Stockton
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The Lost Land of King Arthur
John Cuming Walters
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The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories
Neil Munro
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The Lost Word: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago
Henry Van Dyke
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The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Cruikshank
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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
Bret Harte
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The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus Translated into English Verse
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, John Stuart Blackie
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The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-law to Mother Winter
Humphrey Crouch
Date unknown