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
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 Seven Champions of Christendom
William Henry Giles Kingston
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The Seven Plays in English Verse
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Lewis Campbell
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The Seven Wives of Bluebeard
Anatole France, J. Lewis May, Bernard Miall, D. B Stewart
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The Severed Hand
Wilhelm Hauff
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The Shadow Witch
Gertrude Crownfield, Anne Merriman Peck
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The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
Richard Runciman Terry
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The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales
Hannah More
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The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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The Silver Fox
Martin Ross, E. Oe. Somerville
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The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales
Richard Edward Connell
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The Singing Caravan: A Sufi Tale
Robert Gilbert Vansittart Vansittart
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The Siwash, Their Life, Legends, and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacfic Northwest
Joseph Allen Costello
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The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
Ellis Wynne, George Borrow
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The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book
Walter Crane
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The Soldier and Death
Arthur Ransome
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The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Songs of Ranild
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
Charles A Eastman
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The Spawn of Ixion; Or, The 'Biter Bit.' An Allegory
James Ewing Cooley
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The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson
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The Spider, and Other Tales
Carl Ewald, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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The Stars in the Pool: A Prose Poem for Lovers
Edna Kingsley Wallace
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The Stoneground Ghost Tales
Edmund Gill Swain
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The Story Hour, Vol. I, No. 1, November, 1908
Various, William Carl Ruediger, Richard Thomas Wyche
Date unknown