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
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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 octopus
Henry Lee
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The perverse Erse
Adrien Coblentz
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The phantoms of the foot-bridge
Charles Egbert Craddock, Arthur Burdett Frost
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The reign of King Oberon
Walter Jerrold, Charles Robinson
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The return of Alcestis
Laurence Housman
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The romance of comets
Mary Proctor
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The room in the tower, and other stories
Edward Frederic Benson
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The sacred dance
William Oscar Emil Oesterley
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The saga of Silver Bend
Jesse Edward Grinstead, James C McKell
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The secrets of black arts!
Anonymous
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The silica gel pseudomorph, and other stories
Edward Hart
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The sirens
Laurence Binyon
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The skeleton crew
Anonymous
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The sleeping beauty and other fairy tales from the old French
Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charles Perrault, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon Villeneuve, Edmund Dulac
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The story of Eros & Psyche (retold from Apuleius)
Edward Carpenter
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The supernatural in early Spanish literature, studied in the works of the court of Alfonso X, el Sabio
Frank Callcott
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ
William Wake
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The sweet miracle
Eça de Queirós, King of Portugal Carlos I, Edgar Prestage
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The symbolism of colour
Ellen McCaffery
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The thing in the woods
Harper Williams
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The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon; part 2
Pedro de Cieza de León, Clements Clements Robert Markham
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The triumph of the Innocents
William Holman Hunt
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The twelve adventurers, and other stories
Charlotte Brontë, Charles William Hatfield, Clement King Shorter
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The vale of Lyvennet
John Salkeld Bland, Francis Henry Mervyn Parker
Date unknown