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
- Read free
Korean Tales
Horace Newton Allen
1889
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Laos folk-lore of farther India
Katherine Neville Fleeson, William A. Briggs
1899
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Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece
John Stuart Blackie
1880
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Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the native religions of Mexico and Peru
Albert Réville, Philip Philip Henry Wicksteed
1884
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Legenda Aurea
Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton, Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1476Latin
- Read free
Legends of Fire Island beach and the South Side
Edward Edward Richard 1855-1 Shaw, Edward Richard Shaw, Edward Shaw, Edward Edward Richard Shaw
1895
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Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
Elias Johnson
1881
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Margaret and her friends
Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Margaret Fuller
1895
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Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Eleanor Farjeon
1921
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Myth and science
Tito Vignoli
1882
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Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development
Ignác Goldziher, Heymann Steinthal, Russell Martineau
1871
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Myths & legends of Japan
F. Hadland Davis, Evelyn Paul
1912
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Natural History Lore And Legend
F. Edward Hulme
1895
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Nightmare Tales
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
1892
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Pauli Ernesti Iablonski De memnone Graecorum, et Aegyptiorum
Paul Ernst Jablonski
1753
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Plant lore, legends, and lyrics
Richard Folkard
1884
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Portuguese folk-tales
Zophimo Consiglieri Pedroso
1882
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Primitive art
Franz Boas, Aldona Jonaitis
1657
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Primitive manners and customs
James Anson Farrer
1879
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Psyche's task
James George Frazer
1909
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Religions of primitive peoples
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
1897
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Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts
Paul Schellhas, Alberta M. Parker, Selma Wesselhoeft
1904
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Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology
Charles K. Dillaway, Charles Charles Knapp Dillaway
1833
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Scopelism
Robert Fletcher
1897