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 Turkish Jester
George Borrow
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The Táin
Mary Mary Ann Hutton, John Patrick Campbell
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The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales
Henry Van Dyke
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The Unknown Sea
Clemence Housman
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The Unruly Sprite: A Partial Fairy Tale
Henry Van Dyke
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The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
Hattie Greene Lockett
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The Valkyries
Edward Frederic Benson, Richard Wagner, T Noyes Lewis
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The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales
Henry Van Dyke
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The Valor of Cappen Varra
Poul Anderson
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
Henry Lee
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The Verner Raven, The Count of Vendel's Daughter, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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The Vigil of Brunhild: A Narrative Poem
Frederic Manning
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2)
Paul Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
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The Violet Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
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The Vision of Dante: A story for little children and a talk to their mothers
Elizabeth Harrison, Dante Alighieri, Walter Crane
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The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas
William Henry Frost
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The Wagnerian Romances
Gertrude Hall Brownell
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The Waif Woman
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
0 CE
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The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales
William Sharp
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The Watcher, and other weird stories
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Brinsley Le Fanu
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The Weird Orient: Nine Mystic Tales
Henry Iliowizi, William Sherman Potts
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The Well
William Wymark Jacobs, Maurice Greiffenhagen, Amy Richards
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The Well in the Desert
Emily Sarah Holt, Madelaine Irwin
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