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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Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy
Logan Marshall
Date unknown
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Fanny, the Flower-Girl; or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales
Selina Bunbury
Date unknown
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Flying Plover: His stories, told him by Squat-by-the-fire
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Charles Livingston Bull
Date unknown
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Forgotten Tales of Long Ago
Edward Verrall Lucas, F. D Bedford
Date unknown
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Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales
William Henry Giles Kingston
Date unknown
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Games and songs of American children
William Wells Newell
Date unknown
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Gamle danske minder, eller skildringer, fortællinger og sagn om Danmarks byer, kirker og klostre, kongeborge og slotte, herregaarde samt mindeværdige steder i ældre tider
Holger Bruun
1869Danish
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Gods and Heroes
Ferdinand Schmidt, George George Putnam Upton, Karl Friedrich Becker
Date unknown
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Golden Deeds
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Good Stories for Great Holidays
Frances Jenkins Olcott
Date unknown
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Granny's wonderful chair & its tales of fairy times
Frances Browne, Dollie Radford, Dora Curtis
Date unknown
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Great opera stories
Millicent Schwab Bender
Date unknown
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Götterglaube und Nibelungenring
Christian Mehlis
1876German
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Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and The Men of Old
Francis Storr, Frank Cheyne Papé
Date unknown
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Handbuch der klassischen literatur, enthaltend I. Archäologie
Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1801German
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series
Hans Christian Andersen, Jenny H. Stickney, Edna F Hart
Date unknown
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series
Hans Christian Andersen, Jenny H. Stickney, Edna F Hart
Date unknown
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Harper's Round Table, August 18, 1896
Various
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Harper's Round Table, March 23, 1897
Various
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Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895
Various
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Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880
Various
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Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881
Various
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Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880
Various
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Histoire du chien de Brisquet / The Story of Brisquet's Dog
Charles Nodier, Michael Wooff
Date unknown