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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Arnold of Winkelried, the Hero of Sempach
Gustav Höcker, George George Putnam Upton
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Aunt Judy's Tales
Alfred Gatty
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Aunt Kitty's Tales
Maria Maria Jane McIntosh
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Baartock
Lewis Roth
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Baron Bruno; Or, The Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories
Louisa Morgan, Randolph Caldecott
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Bellérophon
Jean Baptiste Lully
1679French
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Bertha, Our Little German Cousin
Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
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Bible Stories and Religious Classics
Philip Philip Patterson Wells
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Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy
John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell
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Bill the Minder
W. Heath Robinson
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Bluebeard
Clifton Johnson, Harry Illustrator Smith
Date unknown
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Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17)
Various, Winton James Baltzell, William Byron Forbush, Rossiter Johnson, Herbert Herbert Treadwell Wade, Daniel Edwin Wheeler
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Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Date unknown
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Buch der liebe
Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching, Büsching, Johann Gustav, 1783-1829, ed, of Scotland Eleanore, Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1809German
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Careless Jane and Other Tales
Katharine Pyle
Date unknown
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Carmina Homerica, Ilias et Odyssea
Όμηρος, Homer, Richard Payne Knight
1820Ancient Greek
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Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
Russell Doubleday, Janet MacDonald, Ernest Thompson Seton
Date unknown
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Charles' Journey to France, and Other Tales
Mrs. Barbauld
Date unknown
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Child's New Story Book;
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, Edward Everett Hale
Date unknown
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Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece
Elsie Finnimore Buckley, Arthur Sidgwick, Frank Cheyne Papé
Date unknown
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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade
Augusta Stevenson
Date unknown
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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two
Augusta Stevenson
Date unknown
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Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories
Robert Ford
Date unknown