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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Varuna und Mitra. Ein Beitrag zur Exegese des Veda
Alfred Hiilebrandt
1877German
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Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and Krishna
Vidyāpati Thākura, Ananda Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Date unknown
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)
Henry Parker
Date unknown
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)
Henry Parker
Date unknown
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 3 (of 3)
Henry Parker
Date unknown
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Violets and Other Tales
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Date unknown
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Virgil & Lucretius
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Titus Lucretius Carus, William Stebbing
Date unknown
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Visible and Invisible
Edward Frederic Benson
Date unknown
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series
Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats
Date unknown
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series
Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats
Date unknown
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Mrs. Jameson
Date unknown
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Mrs. Jameson
Date unknown
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Mrs. Jameson
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Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
Voltaire
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Voyager's Tales
Richard Hakluyt
Date unknown
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Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
Perceval Gibbon
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Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others
Alfred Noyes
Date unknown
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Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories
Yei Theodora Ozaki, Hugh Fraser, Shusui Okakura
Date unknown
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Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine
Frank Frank Gouldsmith Speck
Date unknown
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Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District
Charles Dack
Date unknown
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Wehman Bros.' Irish Yarns Wit and Humor, No. 2
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Weird Tales from Northern Seas
Jonas Lie, Laurence Housman, R. Nisbet Bain
Date unknown
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Weird Tales, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, John Thomas Bealby
Date unknown
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Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1923: The unique magazine
Various, Edwin Baird
Date unknown