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 dryad
Justin Justin Huntly McCarthy
Date unknown
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The dwarf's spectacles, and other fairy tales
Max Simon Nordau, H. A Hart, R McGowan, F. P Safford, Mary Mary Joanna Safford
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The eater of souls
Henry Kuttner
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The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
de Pisan Christine, George George Frederic Warner, Stephen Scrope
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The fearsome touch of death
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Hugh Rankin
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The feast of Bacchus
Ernest Ernest George Henham
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The feather symbol in ancient Hopi designs
Jesse Walter Fewkes
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The fetish folk of West Africa
Robert H Milligan
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The fire of Asshurbanipal
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, J. Allen John
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The gnome's gneiss
Kendell Foster Crossen, Alex Schomburg
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The golden bridle
Jane Rice, Newton H Alfred
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The golden spears, and other fairy tales
Edmund Leamy, Corinne Turner
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The grateful elephant
Eugene Watson Burlingame, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop
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The grisly horror
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Vincent Napoli
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The hairy ones shall dance
Manly Wade Wellman, Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay
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The high deeds of Finn, and other bardic romances of ancient Ireland
Thomas William Rolleston, Stopford Stopford Augustus Brooke, Stephen Reid
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The hills of the dead
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Hugh Rankin
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The history and poetry of finger-rings
Charles Edwards, Richard Henry Stoddard
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The history of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1592, together with The second report of Faustus, containing his appearances and the deeds of Wagner, 1594.
William Rose
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The home-life of Borneo head-hunters
William Henry Furness
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The horror in the burying-ground
Hazel Heald, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Margaret Brundage, Virgil Finlay
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The hounds of Tindalos
Frank Belknap Long, Curtis Charles Senf
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The house of joy
Laurence Housman
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The house of pride, and other tales of Hawaii
Jack London
Date unknown