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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The Place of Animals in Human Thought
Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
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The Poem-Book of the Gael
Eleanor Hull
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The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas
Robert Bridges
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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)
William Crooke
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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)
William Crooke
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The Prem sagur
active 17th century Caturbhujamisra, William Hollings, Lallu Lal
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The Primrose Ring
Ruth Sawyer
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The Princess Pourquoi
Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Sarah Stilwell Weber
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The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems
John Reade
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The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, T Keane
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The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop
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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories
George Bird Grinnell, Edwin Willard Deming
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 3
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Purcell Papers: Index and Contents of the Three Volumes
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Denis Florence MacCarthy
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The Queen's cadet, and other tales
James Grant
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The Queer Folk of Fife: Tales from the Kingdom
David Pryde
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The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun & Fancy
Mabel Henrietta Spielmann, Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer, Bernard Partridge, William J. C Pitcher, Arthur Rackham, Harry Rountree, Hugh Thomson
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The Rainbow Cat
Rose Fyleman, Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor
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The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf
Oscar Ludvig Olson
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The Religion of the Indians of California
Alfred Louis Kroeber
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The Return
Walter De la Mare
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The Return Of The Soul
Robert Hichens
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