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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Select works of Porphyry
Porphyry, Thomas Taylor
1823
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Sixty folk-tales from exclusively Slavonic sources
Albert Henry Wratislaw
1889
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Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians
John Wesley Powell
1881
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Stories from the Italian poets, with lives of the writers
Leigh Hunt
1846
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Stories of the Scottish Border
William Platt, Morris Meredith Williams, Mrs. William Platt
1917
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Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell
1900
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Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua
Claude-François Menestrier
1688Latin
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The Aeneid of Vergil
Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil
1893
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The Great Stone Face and other tales of the White Mountains
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1889
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The Mabinogion
Charlotte Schreiber
1877
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Parker Willis
1850
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
Edgar Allan Poe
1850
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The authoress of the Odyssey
Samuel Butler, Samuel Bysshe Butler, Henry Festing Jones
1897
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The book of noodles
William Alexander Clouston
1888
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The dawn of astronomy
Joseph Norman Sir Lockyer, Norman Lockyer, J. Norman Lockyer
1894
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The demi-gods
James Stephens
1914
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The extant odes of Pindar
Pindar, 519? BCE-439? BCE Pindar, Ernest Myers
1874
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The golden maiden and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia
Apraham Garabed Seklemian, Alice Stone Blackwell
1898
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The horse shoe
Edward G. Flight, George Cruikshank
1852
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The origin of the werewolf superstition
Caroline Taylor Stewart
1909
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The secret rose
William Butler Yeats
1897
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The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years' experience
John Claridge
1744
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The soul of Lilith
Marie Corelli
1892