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 Mosstrooper: A Legend of the Scottish Border
Robert Scott Fittis
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The Most Horrible Story
John Jakes, Willis E. Terry
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The Mother of St. Nicholas: A Story of Duty and Peril
Grant Balfour
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The Mountain that was 'God'
John John Harvey Williams
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The Mouse and The Moonbeam
Eugene Field
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The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories
Charles Egbert Craddock
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The Mythological Zoo
Oliver Herford
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The Mythology of All Races, Vol. 11: Latin-American
Hartley Burr Alexander, Louis Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore
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The Mythology of the British Islands
Charles Squire
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The Myths and Fables of To-Day
Samuel Adams Drake, Frank T Merrill
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The Myths of Mexico & Peru
Lewis Spence, Gilbert James, William Sewell
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The Nantucket Indians
Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow
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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 3, Myths and Languages
Hubert Howe Bancroft
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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History
Hubert Howe Bancroft
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The Nibelungenlied
Daniel Bussier Shumway
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The Nibelungenlied
George Henry Needler
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The Nibelungenlied
William Nanson Lettsom, William William Henry Carpenter
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The Nibelungs
Ferdinand Schmidt, George George Putnam Upton
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The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Norse king's bridal
Smith-Dampier, Eleanor Mary
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The Norwegian Fairy Book
Klara Stroebe, George Hood, Frederick Herman Martens
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The Nursery Rhyme Book
Andrew Lang, L. Leslie Brooke
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The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo
Anthony Trollope
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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, George Chapman
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