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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Lazy Matilda, and Other Tales
Katharine Pyle
Date unknown
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Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane ... Troisième édition, corrigée, & divisée en deux tomes (4 parties). Par Mre Louys Moreri
Louis Moreri
1683French
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Legend-led
Amy Le Feuvre
Date unknown
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Legends for Lionel: in pen and pencil
Walter Crane
Date unknown
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Legends of Norseland
Mara Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick, A Chase
Date unknown
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Les fleurs animées
J. J. Grandville, Taxile Delord, Raban
1840French
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Little Frank and other tales
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Little Greta of Denmark
Bernadine Bailey
Date unknown
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Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare
David Cory, Harold S Barbour
Date unknown
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Little Tales of The Desert
Ethel Twycross Foster, Hernando G Villa
Date unknown
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Little Tom
Václav Tille, Ot. Štáfl
Date unknown
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Lob Lie-By-The-Fire, The Brownies and Other Tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing, Frances Henshaw Baden
Date unknown
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Lulu's Library, Volume 2 (of 3)
Louisa May Alcott
Date unknown
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Læserguide til `Visdommens rum`. Tredje udgave
Anders Dræby
2025Danish
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Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Date unknown
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Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Date unknown
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Merry Tales
Eleanor Eleanor Louise Skinner, Ada Ada Maria Skinner
Date unknown
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Minnie; or, The Little Woman: A Fairy Story
Caroline Snowden Guild
Date unknown
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Molly and Kitty, or Peasant Life in Ireland; with Other Tales
Olga Eschenbach, Maria Burg, Trauermantel
Date unknown
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Moo cow tales
Rosamund E. Nesbit Bland, E. Stuart Hardy
Date unknown
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Moral Tales
Madame Guizot, L. Burke
Date unknown
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More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme
Ada M Marzials
Date unknown
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More Tales of the Birds
W. Warde Fowler, Frances L Fuller
Date unknown
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Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
John Gilbert, Walter Crane, John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Johann Baptist Zwecker
Date unknown