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
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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The student's mythology
Catherine Ann White
1872
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The vision of Sir Launfal
James Russell Lowell
1848
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The voyage of Bran, son of Febal, to the land of the living
Kuno Meyer, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Alfred Nutt, Scél Túan maic Cairill. 1897
1895
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Told After Supper
Jerome Klapka Jérôme, Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome
1891
- Read free
Traditional African religions in South African law
T. W Bennett
2014
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Welsh folk-lore
Elias Owen
1896
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West Irish folk-tales and romances
William Larminie
1893
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Wit, character, folklore & customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire
Richard Blakeborough
1898
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A winter in the city of pleasure
Florence K. Berger
1877
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Kleinere Schriften
Reinhold Köhler, Johannes Bolte
1898German
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Laurentii Pignorii Patavini Mensa Isiaca
Lorenzo Pignoria, Abraham Blooteling, Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
1669Latin
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Lexicon antiquitatum romanarum
Samuel Pitiscus
1713Latin
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Roman legends about the apostles Paul and Peter
Viktor Rydberg
1898
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Superstitions anciennes et modernes: prejugés vulgaires qui ont induit les peuples à des usages et à des pratiques contraires à la religion
Jean-Baptiste Thiers, Jean-Frédéric Bernard
1733French
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Virgil's Aeneid
Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil
1888
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Die Haus- und Hofmarken
Carl Gustav Homeyer
1870German
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Ena
George H. Wilson
1874
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La mythologie du Rhin, par X.B. Saintine: Illustrée par Gustave Doré.
Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine, X.-Xavier-Boniface Saintine, X.-B Saintine
1862French
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La premiere et seconde partie des Erreurs populaires
Laurent Joubert
1601French
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Tales of the Pandaus
Wandering Cimmerian
1884
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The Baitāl Pachchīsī, or, The twenty-five tales of a sprite
Duncan Forbes, John Thompson Platts
1871
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The precedents of princess Thoodamma Tsari
Sudhammacari
1881
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Traditions, superstitions, and folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the north of England:) their affinity to others in widely-distributed localities; their eastern origin and mythical significance
Charles Hardwick
1872
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Ueber Physiognomik, wider die Physiognomen
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Johann Christian Dieterich
1778German