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 Yoke
Elizabeth Miller
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The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari
James James Seguin De Benneville
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The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
Charles Egbert Craddock, Malcolm Fraser
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The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2
Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field, Maginel Wright Barney
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The adventures of Hatim Taï, a romance
Duncan Forbes, William Rounseville Alger
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The beloved of Hathor, and The shrine of the Golden Hawk
Florence Farr, Olivia Shakespear
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The black border
Ambrose Elliott Gonzalez
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The black drama
Manly Wade Wellman, Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay
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The black kiss
Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay
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The book of Saint Nicholas
James Kirke Paulding
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The book of Scottish story
Various
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The book of filial duty
552 BCE-480 BCE Confucius, 506 BCE-437? BCE Zengzi, Launcelot Cranmer-Byng, Shaporji Aspaniarji Kapadia, Ivan Chên
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The book of witches
Oliver Madox Hueffer
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The carnal god
John John Rawson Speer, Carlisle Schnitzer, Margaret Brundage, Harold Saylor De Lay
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The chronicles of Fairy land
Fergus Hume, M Dunlop, Maria Louise Kirk
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The coasts of illusion
Clark Clark Barnaby Firestone, Ruth Hambidge, John Everett Millais
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The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 02 (of 11)
Henrik Ibsen, William Archer
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The corsair; a romantic legend of Hell Gate
William Barney Allen
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The daughter of the dawn
William Reginald Hodder, Harold Piffard
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The deep space scrolls
Robert F Young, George Schelling
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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth
Unknown, Francis William Bain
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The devil in a nunnery, and other mediaeval tales
Francis Oscar Mann
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The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill
Max Beerbohm
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The dream snake
Robert Robert Ervin Howard
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