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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Mother Stories from the Old Testament
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Mother West Wind "When" Stories
Thornton Thornton Waldo Burgess, Harrison Cady
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Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
Thornton Thornton Waldo Burgess
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Mother West Wind "Why" Stories
Thornton Thornton Waldo Burgess, Harrison Cady
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Mountain Moggy: The Stoning of the Witch
William Henry Giles Kingston
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Mouser Cat's Story
Amy Prentice
Date unknown
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Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist
Mrs. Loudon, William Sweetland Dallas
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Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales
Maria Edgeworth, Henry Morley
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My First Picture Book
Joseph Martin Kronheim
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Myths That Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie, Blanche Ostertag
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Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark
Nelle E Moore
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New History of the Life and Adventures of Tom Thumb
Sidney Babcock, Alexander Anderson
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Nine Unlikely Tales
Edith Nesbit, Harold Robert Millar, Claude Claude Allin Shepperson
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Nuova; or, The New Bee
Vernon Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Charlotte Kellogg, Milo Winter
Date unknown
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Mary Mary Elizabeth Burt, Zénaïde Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
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Old Celtic tales
Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton
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On the Tree Top
Clara Doty Bates, Jessie Curtis, Frank T Merrill
Date unknown
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Once upon a time animal stories
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Date unknown
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Parthenopei novellae, fabulae, comoedia ([Reproduction en fac-similé])
Girolamo Morlini
1855Latin
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Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
Samuel Samuel Griswold Goodrich, T Wilson, Samuel Williams
Date unknown
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Plain tales, chiefly intended for the use of charity schools
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales
Sarah Sarah Parsons Doughty
Date unknown
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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Date unknown
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Popular Tales
Madame Guizot, L. Burke
Date unknown