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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Terrific tales
Isabella Lewis
1804
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The Buddhist praying-wheel
William Simpson
1896
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Ballads, romances, and songs
Robert Dwyer Joyce
1861
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Bohemian legends and other poems
Flora Pauline Wilson Kopta
1896
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Favourite fairy tales
John Corner
1861
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Irish local legends
John O'Hanlon
1896
- Read free
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Religious Tract Society
1850
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Origin of the red men
John B. Newman
1849
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Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker
Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Friedrich Creuzer
1810German
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The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National ..
Edward Davies
1809
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The Piasa, or the Devil Among the Indians
Perry A. Armstrong
1887
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The rat
James Rodwell
1858
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The reasoning power in animals
John Selby Watson
1867
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Wild scenes in the forest and prairie
Charles Fenno Hoffman
1839
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Amulets and superstitions
E. A. Wallis Budge
1930
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Danmarks folkesagn
Just Mathias Thiele, Russian Imperial Collection DLC
1843Danish
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Elogio funebre
Serafino Gatti, Litografia Bianchi, Francesco Pagliuolo
1825Italian
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History of the heathen gods and heroes of antiquity
William Sheldon, Hesiod, James Akin, Hesiod. Theogony. English. Selections, Isaiah Thomas, Thomas Wightman
1809
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Oberon's horn
Henry Morley
1861
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Pantheum mythicum, seu Fabulosa deorum historia
François Pomey, Jan Goeree, Pomey, Francʹois, Jan Van Vianen, Willem van de Water
1659Latin
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Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau
Ernst Ludwig Rochholz
1856German
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Volksmărchen der Deutschen
Johann Karl August Musäus
1815German
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A century of science, and other essays
John Fiske
1899
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A group of Eastern romances and stories, from the Persian, Tamil, and Urdu
William Alexander Clouston, Edward Rehatsek
1889