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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Suomen Kansan Vanhoja Runoja ynnä myös Nykyisempiä Lauluja 4
Zacharias Topelius
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen Kansan Vanhoja Runoja ynnä myös Nykyisempiä Lauluja 5
Zacharias Topelius
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan Arwoituksia: ynnä 189 Wiron arwoituksen kanssa
Elias Lönnrot
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan eläinkirja
Eino Railo
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan muinaisia loitsurunoja
Elias Lönnrot
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan peikkosatuja ynnä legendoja ja kertomussatuja
Iivo Härkönen
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan satuja ja tarinoita
Eero Salmelainen
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan seikkailusatuja
Iivo Härkönen
Date unknownFinnish
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Svenska folk-sagor och äfventyr. Första delen (häfte 1 och häfte 2)
Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius, George Stephens
Date unknownSwedish
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Syntymä, lapsuus ja kuolema: Vienan Karjalan tapoja ja uskomuksia
Samuli Paulaharju
Date unknownFinnish
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Székelyföldi gyüjtés; Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 3. kötet
János Kriza, Elek Benedek, Balázs Orbán, Jób Sebesi
Date unknownHungarian
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Székelyföldi gyüjtés; Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 7. kötet
Oszkár Mailand, Gyula Vargha
Date unknownHungarian
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Tales
Carl Ewald, Dawid Wiskott
Date unknownHebrew
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Talon-Pojan Sää- eli Ilma-Kirja
Anonymous
Date unknownFinnish
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Tarinoita
Ivan Andreevich Krylov, Sakari Putro
Date unknownFinnish
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Tarutarha
Larin-Kyösti
Date unknownFinnish
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Andrew Lang
Date unknown
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
Isaac Taylor Headland
Date unknown
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
2005
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The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Gilbert Murray
Date unknown
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The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Andrew Lang, Richard Doyle, Edmund Evans
Date unknown
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The Three Golden Apples
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date unknown
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Tradicions religiosas de Catalunya
Agna de Valldaura
Date unknownCatalan
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Tragedias
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Julio Torri, Fernando Segundo Brieva Salvatierra
Date unknownSpanish