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
- Read free
Gaping Wide Mouthed Waddling Frog 1817
publishers E Wallis and J. Wallis
1817
Il pendolo di Foucault
Umberto Eco
1980
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Przypowieści, legendy i myśli Talmudu i Midraszu
1880Polish
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Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres. Tome XXV. Sur l'origine de la fable de l'olympe
1761French
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Folk fairy tales gathered in the village of Przebieczany: (in the Wieliczka poviat)
1896Polish
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Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates
Mary Mapes Dodge
1876
The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
1987
Wizard and Glass
Stephen King
1997
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Amy's wish and what came of it: A Fairy Tale
George Tylee
1870
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De Ellendigen (Deel 3 van 5)
Victor Hugo
Date unknownDutch
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Irish fairy and folk tales
William Butler Yeats
1800
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Juzno-Russkia byliny
1881Russian
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Sing-song
Christina Georgina Rosetti
1872
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The Nursery Alice
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, E. Gertrude Thomson, Harcourt Amory
1889
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The redbreast
John Gadsby Chapman, Juvenile Collection DLC, Christoph von Schmid
1848
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Fables de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, J. J Grandville
Date unknownFrench
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Fables de La Fontaine. Tome Second
Jean de La Fontaine
Date unknownFrench
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
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Katharine Berry Judson Collection
1871
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La légende dorée
de Voragine Jacobus, Teodor de Wyzewa
Date unknownFrench
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Les aventures de Télémaque
Aragon
Date unknownFrench
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Rāmāyaṇam
Vālmīki, Sheldon I. Pollock, Mu Irāmacuvāmi, Robert P. Goldman, Rosalind Lefeber, Krishna Dharma, Ramesh Menon, C. Rajagopalachari, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Manmatha Nath Dutt, Anant Pai, S.K. Ratcliffe
1823
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二刻拍案驚奇
Mengchu Ling
Date unknownChinese
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Bajki Ezopa zastósowane dla młodzieży i nauką moralną wierszem objaśnione
1849Polish