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 Story Hour, Vol. I, No. 2, December, 1908
Various, William Carl Ruediger, Richard Thomas Wyche
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The Story Tellers' Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, June 1913
Various, Richard Thomas Wyche
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The Story Tellers' Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, July 1913
Various, Richard Thomas Wyche
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The Story and Song of Black Roderick
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
William Scott-Elliot
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The Story of Bawn
Katharine Tynan
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The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose
Ernest Ernest John Brigham Kirtlan, Frederic William Lawrence
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The Story of Grettir the Strong
Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris
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The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes, Maria Louise Kirk
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The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus
Gilbert Murray
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The Story of Tim
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel
Aubrey Beardsley
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The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin
Anatole France, J. Lewis May, Bernard Miall, D. B Stewart
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The Story of the Greeks
Hélène Adeline Guerber
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The Story of the Prophet Jonas
William Tyndale
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The Story of the Three Little Pigs
L. Leslie Brooke
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The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
Wardon Allan Curtis
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The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country
Joseph Barry
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The Substance of a Dream
Francis William Bain
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The Summers readers: second reader
Maud Summers
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The Sun King
Gaston Derreaux
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The Superstition of Divorce
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The Swedish Fairy Book
Klara Stroebe, George Hood, Frederick Herman Martens
Date unknown