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
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
Date unknown
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The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
Edwin Arnold
Date unknown
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The Story of King Arthur and his Knights
Howard Pyle
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The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
Howard Pyle
Date unknown
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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris
Date unknown
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The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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The haunter of the dark
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Date unknown
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A kiss for Cinderella: A comedy
James Matthew Barrie
Date unknown
Anthropology and Cryptozoology
Samantha Hurn
2016
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Black Canaan
Robert Robert Ervin Howard, Harold Saylor De Lay
Date unknown
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French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
de France Marie, Eugene Mason
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Life's Little Ironies
Thomas Hardy
Date unknown
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Medea of Euripides
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Gilbert Murray
Date unknown
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New version of Les contes d'Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffman)
Jacques Offenbach, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré, Charles Alfred Byrne
Date unknown
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The Aeneid
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, John Dryden
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The Bacchae of Euripides
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Gilbert Murray
Date unknown
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The Kādambarī of Bāṇa
Bāṇa, Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa, Caroline Mary Ridding
Date unknown
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The Land of Heart's Desire
William Butler Yeats
Date unknown
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The Parasite: A Story
Arthur Conan Doyle
Date unknown
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The Rhesus of Euripides
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Gilbert Murray
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The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.
Edward William Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole, Edward Stanley Poole, William Harvey
Date unknown
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The curse of Yig
Zealia Zealia Brown Bishop, Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Date unknown
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The shadow over Innsmouth
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Hannes Bok
Date unknown