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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Chit-chat, or Short Tales in Short Words
Maria Elizabeth Budden
Date unknown
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Christ Legends
Selma Lagerlöf, Bertha Stuart, Velma Swanston Howard
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Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls
Elva Sophronia Smith
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Cinderella
John John Rea Neill
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Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories
Anonymous
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Cross Purposes and The Shadows
George MacDonald
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Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark
Joel Chandler Harris, Edward Windsor Kemble
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Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin
Henry Louis Stephens
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Deborah Dent and Her Donkey and Madam Fig's Gala
Unknown
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Denslow's Mother Goose
William Wallace Denslow
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Denslow's Three Bears
William Wallace Denslow
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Dick and His Cat, and Other Tales
Edith Carrington, Florence M Cooper
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Dick and his cat
Mary Ellis
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Down-adown-derry
Walter De la Mare, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop
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Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
Laura Valentine
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Evening Tales
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Ortoli, Joel Chandler Harris
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Fabulae per Laurentium Abstemium compositae. Fabulae Aesopi, ex graeco in latinum per Laurentium Vallam versae
Domizio Palladio, Lorenzo Astemio, Ésope
1495Latin
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Fabule et vita Esopi, cum fabulis Aviani, Alphonsii, Pogii... et aliorum, cum optimo commento
Flavius Avianus, Le Pogge, Petrus Alfonsi, Ésope
1486Latin
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Fairies I Have Met
Rodolph Stawell, Edmund Dulac
Date unknown
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Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second Series
May Wentworth
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Fairy Tales from the German Forests
Margaret Arndt
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
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Fairy dreams
Jane Jane Goodwin Austin, Hammatt Billings
Date unknown
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Fairy's Album
Anonymous
Date unknown