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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Tratado de los euangelios
Francisco de Avila, Florián Sarmiento Rendón
1648Latin
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Turkish fairy tales and folk tales
Ignácz Kúnos, Celia Levetus, R. Nisbet Bain
1896
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Uhlands schriften zur geschichte der dichtung und sage
Ludwig Uhland, Wilhelm Ludwig Holland, Adelbert von Keller, Franz Pfeiffer
1865German
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Witchcraft and superstitious record in the south-western district of Scotland
J. Maxwell Wood, John Copland
1911
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Zoological mythology
Angelo De Gubernatis
1872
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Zuñi fetiches
Frank Hamilton Cushing
1883
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[G]enealogiae Deorum ge[n]tiliu[m] ad Vgonem inclytu[m] hierusale[m] & Cypri Regem secu[n]dum Ioannem Boccacium Certaldo liber primus i[n]cipit foelichiter
Giovanni Boccaccio, Domenico di Silvestro, Domenico Bandini, Laurentius de Bruschis, Bartholomaeus de Bruschis
1481Latin
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[P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia]
Ovid, Nicolaas Heinsius, Borchardus Cnippingius, Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D Ovid
1533Latin
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Íslendinga sögur
Valdimar Ásmundarson, Benedikt Sveinsson, Finnur Jónsson, Þorleifur Jónsson
1891Icelandic
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Bird gods
Charles De Kay
1898
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Cistercian Legends Of The Thirteenth Century
Caesarius of Heisterbach, Henry Collins
1872
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Das Passional: eine Legenden-Sammlung des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts
Friedrich Karl Köpke
1852GMH
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Geschichte und Kritik des Mysticismus aller bekannten Völker und Zeiten: Ein Beitrag zur ..
Johann Christian August Heinroth, Johann Christian F.A . Heinroth
1830German
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Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines
Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville, Pierre d' Hancarville, veuve Leclerc
1784French
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Phantasien des Alterthums
Johann Andreas Lebrecht Richter
1808German
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Die feen in Europa
Heinrich Schreiber
1842German
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Hieroglyphica, oder, Denkbilder der alten Völker
Romeyn de Hooghe, Arkstée et Merkus, Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, Hendrik van den Bos, Jacobus Houbraken, Jan Wandelaar, Arnoldus Henricus Westerhoff
1744German
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History of Ireland
Standish O'Grady
1878
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A new edition of Toland's History of the druids
John Toland, Pierre Desmaizeaux, Robert Huddleston, Benno Loewy, Thomas A. fmo Wise
1814
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A provincial glossary
Francis Grose, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection DLC
1787
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Church-lore gleanings
T. F. Thiselton Dyer
1892
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Dunblane traditions
John Monteath
1887
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King Longbeard
Barrington MacGregor
1897
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Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé
Longus, Jacques Amyot, Jean Audran, Charles Nicolas Cochin, Antoine Coypel, Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723, illustrator
1745French