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 Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleur & Blanchefleur
Mrs Leighton, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Date unknown
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The Sworn Brothers: A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland
Gunnar Gunnarsson, William Emmé, Claud Field
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The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
William Butler Yeats
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The Tahquitch Maiden: A Tale of the San Jacintos
Phebe Estelle Spalding, Jean Oliver
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The Tale of Balen
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats
William Morris, Alfred John Wyatt
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The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and His Sister: Two Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Tales and Novels, v9: Belphegor and Others
Jean de La Fontaine
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The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin; With Other Pieces
George Borrow, Adam Mickiewicz, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
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The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
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The Talking Horse, and Other Tales
F Anstey
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The Talking Thrush, and Other Tales from India
William Crooke, William Henry Denham Rouse, W. Heath Robinson
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The Tarn of Eternity
Frank Tymon
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The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the "Arabian Nights"
Miss Pardoe
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The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
Francis Francis Alexander Durivage
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The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore
Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston
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The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving
Ada Ada Maria Skinner, Eleanor Eleanor Louise Skinner, Maxfield Parrish
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The Torch and Other Tales
Eden Phillpotts
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2)
Alice Bertha Gomme
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2)
Alice Bertha Gomme
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The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Theodore Alois Buckley
Date unknown
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The Trail Book
Mary Austin, Milo Winter
Date unknown
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The Trail of the Elk
Mikkjel Fønhus, Harry Rountree, Sara Helene Petersen Weedon
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The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth?
Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian
Date unknown