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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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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True Stories of the Great War, Volume 4 (of 6)
Francis Trevelyan Miller
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True Stories of the Great War, Volume 5 (of 6)
Francis Trevelyan Miller
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True Stories of the Great War, Volume 6 (of 6)
Francis Trevelyan Miller
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True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World
Adolphus Washington Greely
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True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old
Aubrey Le Blond
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Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers
Isabella Mary Anderton, Basil Anderton, H. Orsmond Anderton
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Twenty tales by twenty women: From real life in Chicago
Anonymous
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Twenty-Two Goblins
Arthur Arthur William Ryder
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Twin Tales: Are All Men Alike, and, The Lost Titian
Arthur Stringer
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Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen; II. The Fall of Troy
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, J. Raleigh Nelson, Frank Justus Miller
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Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Two Tragedies of Seneca: Medea and The Daughters of Troy
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ella Isabel Harris
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Two plays for dancers
William Butler Yeats
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Ulf Van Yern, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
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Ulster
Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Alexander Williams
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Uncanny Tales
Mrs Molesworth
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Uncanny Tales
Various
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Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
Joel Chandler Harris
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Under King Constantine
Katrina Trask
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Undine
Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, Charlotte Charlotte Mary Yonge, Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett, Mary Macgregor, Katharine Cameron
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Unvarnished Tales
William Mackay
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Uther and Igraine
Warwick Deeping, Wladyslaw Wladyslaw Theodore Benda
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Uttara, the Legend of the Turquoise
Carlo de Fornaro
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Valentine and Orson: A Romantic Melo-Drame
Thomas Dibdin
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