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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Shakspeare's merry tales
1845
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The hundred merry tales: or Shakspeare's jest book
1831
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The little white mouse
publisher Henry Mozley and Sons
1837
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling
1896
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John Harrelson (Broadside Song, c 1865)
1865
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Lays of Ancient Rome
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Date unknown
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather
1818
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
Richard Francis Burton
Date unknown
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Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources
621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Ernest Henry Griset, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir
Date unknown
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Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 2 of 9. England, early history
Raphael Holinshed
Date unknown
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3)
Walter Scott
Date unknown
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1
Walter Scott
Date unknown
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Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6)
Richard Francis Burton
Date unknown
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The Improvement of Human Reason
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl
Date unknown
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The Mabinogion Vol. 3
Owen Morgan Edwards, Charlotte Schreiber
Date unknown
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The adventures of Valentine and Orson
Thomas Greenough Bangs, publisher R.P. & C. Williams
1814
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From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Date unknown
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Laxdaela saga
1899
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Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures
Songling Pu, Georges Soulié de Morant
Date unknown
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1
Richard Francis Burton
Date unknown
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
John Payne
Date unknown
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Francis James Child
Date unknown
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga
Charles William Eliot
Date unknown