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 vampire cat
Gerard Van Etten
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The white doe
Sallie Southall Cotten
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The willow weaver, and seven other tales
Michael Wood
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The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Edgar Edgar Solomon Shumway, John Conington
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The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Maine J. P, Edward Fairfax Taylor
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The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, William Morris
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Their Mariposa Legend: A Romance of Santa Catalina
Charlotte Charlotte Bronte Herr
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Theocritus, translated into English Verse
301 BCE-261 BCE Theocritus, Charles Stuart Calverley
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There is a Reaper ...
Charles V De Vet, Willis E. Terry
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Things near & far
Arthur Machen
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Thirsty blades
Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price, Hugh Rankin
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Thistledown: A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-lore, Story & Anecdote
Robert Ford, John Duncan
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Thomas Hardy's Dorset
R. Thurston Hopkins, E Harries
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Three Courses and a Dessert
William Clarke, George Cruikshank
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Three John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Three More John Silence Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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Three Wonder Plays
Lady Gregory
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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
Anonymous
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Tiger Cat
David David Henry Keller
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Time's Portraiture
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Tioba, and Other Tales
Arthur Colton, Arthur Burdett Frost
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Tiverton Tales
Alice Brown
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Told in the gardens of Araby (untranslated until now)
Izora Izora Cecilia Chandler, Mary Williams Montgomery
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Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah
Mimosa
Date unknown