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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Codex Junius 11
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Giphantia
Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche
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Hero and Leander and Other Poems
Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Ernest Rhys
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In The Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
William Butler Yeats
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Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Volume 02
Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford
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Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cock): An Opera in Three Acts
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Vladimir Ivanovich Belskii
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Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)
Friedrich Karl Forberg
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1
Charles Robert Maturin
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Merlin: A Poem
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
Edmund Spenser, George Armstrong Wauchope
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The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II)
William Morris
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The Güegüence; A Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua
Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
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The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere
Charles de Coster, Albert Delstanche, Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth
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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
Louis Ginzberg, Paul Radin, Henrietta Szold
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The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
John Buchan
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The Mystery of Choice
Robert Robert William Chambers
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The Real Thing and Other Tales
Henry James
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The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes
20-66 Petronius Arbiter, W. C Firebaugh
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The Song of Roland
Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
Beatrix Potter
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The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 3 (of 5)
Queen Marguerite, Le Roux de Lincy, Balthasar Anton Dunker, Sigmund Freudenberger, George Saintsbury
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The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 3 (of 3)
James Hogg
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The Watcher by the Threshold
John Buchan
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