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
- Read free
All the Way to Fairyland: Fairy Stories
Evelyn Sharp, Mabel Dearmer
1898
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As the Goose Flies
Katharine Pyle
1901
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Aunt Friendly's picture book
Sarah S. Baker, Sarah Sarah Schoonmaker Baker, Joseph Martin Kronheim
1872
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Busy Brownies
E Veale, Palmer Cox
1896
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Contes de Damas; recueillis et traduits, avec une introd. et une esquisse de grammaire
Johannes Elith Østrup
1897French
Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe
Julian Goodare, Rita Voltmer, Liv Helene Willumsen
2020
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Diabruras, santidades e prophecias
Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão
1894Portuguese
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Die Siebenschläferlegende, ihr Ursprung und ihre Verbreitung, eine mythologisch-literaturgeschichtliche Studie
John Koch
1883German
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Fairy Book
Sophie May
1866
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Fairy Tales for Workers' Children
Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Lydia Gibson, Ida Dailes
1925
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Friendly Fairies
Johnny Gruelle
1919
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Granny's Wonderful Chair
Frances Browne, Arthur Arthur Augustus Dixon
1916
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Hamâsa; oder die ältesten arabischen Volkslieder. Übersetzt und erläutert von Friedrich Rückert
Abu Tamman Habib ibn Aws al-Ta'i, Friedrich Rückert
1846German
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Honey-Bee
Anatole France, Florence Lundborg, John Lane
1911
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In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales
Abbie Farwell Brown, E. Boyd Smith
1902
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Indian Nature Myths
Julia Darrow Cowles, Dorothy Dulin
1924
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Jewish Magic and Supersitition
Joshua Trachtenberg
2025
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Le livre des légendes
Le Roux de Lincy
1836French
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Le père Gigogne
Alexandre Dumas
1894French
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Magiaa ennen ja nyt
Sonja Hukantaival, Tiina Mahlamäki, Aleksi Nicolas Moine
2024Finnish
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Northland Heroes
Florence Holbrook
1922
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Old French Fairy Tales
Sophie Ségur, Virginia Frances Sterrett
1920
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.
active approximately Pausanias, Arthur Richard Shilleto
Date unknown
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Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1800