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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Holiday Tales
Florence Wilford
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Hoppy Toad Tales
William A Hennessey
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Horse Tales
Mary Boyle, Isabel Watkin
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Hosanna
Catharine Shaw, E. Stuart Hardy
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How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail
Albert Bigelow Paine, J. M Condé
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In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children
Amy Steedman
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In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life
Gordon Stables
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In the Court of King Arthur
Samuel Samuel Edward Lowe
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Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas
Various
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It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know
Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, L. E. W Kattelle
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Ivar the Viking
Paul Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, William Ewart Gladstone
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Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters
Hallam Tennyson Tennyson, Randolph Caldecott
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Jack the Giant Killer
Percival Leigh, John Leech
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Joseph and His Brethren
William King Tweedie
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Joseph the Dreamer
Amy Steedman
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Kathleen in Ireland
Etta Blaisdell McDonald, Julia Dalrymple
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Keeping Tryst: A Tale of King Arthur's Time
Annie Annie Fellows Johnston
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King Arthur and His Knights
Maude Radford Warren, Walter Walter Joseph Enright
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King Arthur's Knights
Henry Gilbert, Walter Crane
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Kitty-cat tales
Alice van Leer Carrick, Bertha G Davidson, Homer Eaton Keyes
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Lady Rum-Di-Doodle-Dum's Children
Samuel Benjamin Dickson, Francis Marion
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Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls
Rudyard Kipling
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Lays of Ancient Babyland
Richard Trott Fisher
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