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
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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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Stories of Norse Gods and Heroes
Annie Klingensmith
1894
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Superstitions de tous les peuples du monde ou Tableau philosophique des erreurs & des faiblesses dans lesquelles les superstitions, tant anciennes que modernes, ont précipité les hommes de la plupart des nations de la terre
sur les bacchanales & les orgies ouvrage suivi d'un précis sur la mère-folle
1783French
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The book of days
Robert Chambers
1800
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Andreas
William Malone Baskervill, Cynewulf
1885
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Christianity in Ceylon
James Emerson Tennent
1850
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Fetichism
Fritz Schultze
1885
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Natalis Comitis Mythologiae, siue, Explicationum fabularum, libri decem
Natale Conti
1568Ancient Greek
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Studii di antichità e mitologia
Carlo Pascal
1896Ancient Greek
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A new system of mythology
Robert Mayo
1815
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Historia trium regum
Joannes of Hildesheim, Carl Horstmann
1481
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History of the holy rood-tree
Arthur Sampson Napier, Bodleian Library, Bodleian Library. Manuscript. 343, Arthur Arthur Sampson Napier
1894
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Les voyages de Cyrus
Andrew Michael Ramsay, Chevalier Ramsay
1728French
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Mythologie, c'est à dire, Explication des fables
Natale Conti
1600French
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Tales and poems of South India
Edward Jewitt Robinson
1885
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Tales of the Highlands
Thomas Dick Lauder
1881
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Wild sports of the West
William Hamilton Maxwell
1832
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A relic of astrology
Henry Carrington Bolton
1898
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Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
1748
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The supernaturalism of New England
John Greenleaf Whittier
1847
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Folk-tales of Angola
Héli Chatelain, American Folklore Society
1894
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Geschichte des neueren Occultismus
Karl Kiesewetter, James Bonwick
1891
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Hill-side and border sketches
William Hamilton Maxwell
1847
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History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
William Maxwell Hetherington
1843
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Superstition ..
Robert Green Ingersoll
1898