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
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'Round the yule-log: Christmas in Norway
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H. L Broekstad
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A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales
Unknown
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A Book of Myths
Jean Lang, Helen Stratton
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A Child's Story Garden
Elizabeth Heber
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A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
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A Cruise in the Sky; or, The Legend of the Great Pink Pearl
Harry Lincoln Sayler, Sidney H Riesenberg
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A Farmer's Wife: The Story of Ruth
James Hartwell Willard
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A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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A Guide to Mythology
Helen Helen Archibald Clarke
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A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
Evelyn Everett-Green
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A New History of Blue Beard
Gaffer Black Beard
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A Party in Mother Goose Land: A One Act Play for Primary Children
Effa Effa Estelle Preston
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A Picture-book of Merry Tales
Anonymous, Horace Harral
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A Southern Cross fairy tale
Kate McCosh Clark, Andreas Reischek, Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas, Robert Atkinson
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A Winter Nosegay: Being Tales for Children at Christmastide
Walter Crane
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A cup of sweets, that can never cloy: or, delightful tales for good children
Elizabeth Sandham, Elizabeth Semple
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Achilles
Karl Friedrich Becker, George George Putnam Upton
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Aileen Aroon, A Memoir
Gordon Stables
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All About the Three Little Pigs
Anonymous, Dick Hartley, L Kirby-Parrish
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An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales
Sarah Orne Jewett, Frances Lee, C. S Sleight
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An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories
Mrs Molesworth, William John Hennessy
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An Entertaining History of Tom Thumb
Unknown
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Andiron Tales
John Kendrick Bangs, Clare Victor Dwiggins
Date unknown
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Animal Chums: True Tales about Four-footed Friends
Jean McIntosh
Date unknown