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 vale of Strathmore
James Cargill Guthrie
1875
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A true ghost story
Hazel Lewis Scaife
1895
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A view of the history, literature, and mythology of the Hindoos
William Ward
1817
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Medea and other plays
Euripides, Peter Elmsley, Gottfried Hermann
1703
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Ali Baba and the forty thieves
Walter Crane
1898
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Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture
Zachary Taylor
1698
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Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity
George Sinclair
1814
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Souvenirs et légendes
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Institut canadien de Québec
1877French
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The myth of Hiawatha, and other oral legends, mythologic and allegoric, of the North American ..
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
1856
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Twixt Ben Nevis And Glencoe
Alexander Stewart
1885
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Local Sketches and Legends Pertaining to Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania
William J Buck, William William Joseph Buck
1887
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Sea monsters unmasked
Henry Lee, International Fisheries Exhibition
1883
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Specimens of Hindoo literature: consisting of translations, from the Tamoul language, of some Hindoo works of morality and imagination
Nathaniel Edward Kindersley
1794
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Tales & legends of the English lakes and mountains
Wilson Armistead
1852
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The apology and acts of Apollonius and other monuments of early Christianity
Fredrick Cornwallis Conybeare
1894
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The new pantheon
Samuel Boyse, Gentleman of Cambridge
1753
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The sleeping beauty
Charles Perrault
1864
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An encyclopædia of occultism
Lewis Spence
1920
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Cath Mhuighe Léana, Or, The Battle of Magh Leana: Together with Tocmarc Moméra, Or The Courtship ..
Eugene O'Curry
1855
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Greeko-Slavonic: Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic Literature and Its Relation to the Folk ..
Moses Gaster
1887
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Indian fable literature
Henry Buckingham Witton
1890
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The Crock Of Gold
Sabine Baring-Gould
1899
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Wahrheiten im Volksaberglauben
Herbert Mayo
1854German
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A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology
Jacob Bryant, James Basire, William Blake, John Adams, John Adams Library BRL
1774