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 Magic Bed: A Book of East Indian Fairy-Tales
Hartwell James, John John Rea Neill
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables
Richard Le Gallienne, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
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The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales
Edward Everett Hale
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The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
Erckmann-Chatrian
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The Maya Chronicles
Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
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The Medici Boots
Pearl Norton Swet
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The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche
Anatole France, Alfred Richard Allinson
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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
44 BCE-18? Ovid, J. J Howard
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The Miracle of the Great St. Nicolas
Anatole France, J. Lewis May, Bernard Miall, D. B Stewart
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828
Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829
Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832
Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
Various
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The Monster
S. M Tenneshaw
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The Moon of Skulls
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Hugh Rankin, Curtis Charles Senf
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