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
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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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 2
Joseph Haslewood
Date unknown
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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3
William Ewart Gladstone
Date unknown
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
Joseph Dunn
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The Book of Wonder
Lord Dunsany
Date unknown
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
Date unknown
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The Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, Gustave Doré, Walter Thornbury
Date unknown
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Vatsyayana, Shivaram Parashuram Bhide, Richard Francis Burton, Bhagavanlal Indrajit
Date unknown
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The Light of Asia
Edwin Arnold
Date unknown
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The Orkneyinga Saga
Anonymous, Joseph Anderson, Gilbert Goudie, Jón A. HjaltalJón Andrésson Hjaltalín
Date unknown
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
1977
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The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 1 (of 5)
Queen Marguerite, Le Roux de Lincy, Balthasar Anton Dunker, Sigmund Freudenberger, George Saintsbury
Date unknown
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The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. I
Edgar Allan Poe, John H. Ingram
1874
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. II (Assignation / Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / Von Kempelen and His Discovery)
Edgar Allan Poe
1884
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe including the choicest of his critical essays [42 stories, 37 poems, 10 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1872
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Ulysses
James Joyce
Date unknown
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronislaw Malinowski, James George Frazer
Date unknown
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Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 3 of 9. England, early history
Raphael Holinshed
Date unknown
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Alfred William Hunt
Date unknown
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I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
James James Albert Harrison, Robert Sharp
Date unknownANG
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4
Charles Robert Maturin
Date unknown
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Orlando Furioso
Lodovico Ariosto, William Stewart Rose
Date unknownItalian
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Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
United States. Work Projects Administration
Date unknown