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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Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion
Beatrice Beatrice Elizabeth Clay
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Stories from Livy
Alfred John Church, Bartolomeo Pinelli
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Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor, Katharine Cameron
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Stories from the Faerie Queen, Told to the Children
Edmund Spenser, Jean Lang, Rose Le Quesne
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Stories from the Iliad; Or, the siege of Troy
Jean Lang, W. Heath Robinson
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Stories of Enchantment
Jane Pentzer Myers, Harriet Roosevelt Richards
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Stories of Heroic Deeds for Boys and Girls
James Johonnot
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Stories of King Arthur and His Knights
Thomas Malory, U. Waldo Cutler
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Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor, Thomas Malory, Louey Chisholm, Katharine Cameron
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Stories of London
Elizabeth Louisa Hoskyn, Sophie Bryant
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Stories of Old Greece and Rome
Emilie Emilie Kip Baker
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Stories of Robin Hood
Bertha Bertha Evangeline Bush
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Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor, Louey Chisholm, Herbert Granville Fell
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Stories of Starland
Mary Proctor
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Stories of the Bible, Volume 1: The People of the Chosen Land
Myles Endicott, Gustave Doré
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Stories of the Days of King Arthur
Charles Henry Hanson, Gustave Doré
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Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light
Vera Vera Charlesworth Barclay
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Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore
Laure Claire Foucher, Ada Budell
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Stories told by the miller
Violet Jacob, W. Dacres Adams
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Story-Telling Ballads
Frances Jenkins Olcott, Milo Winter
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Sugar and Spice: Comical Tales Comically Dressed
James Johnson
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Sunday stories
Catharine Shaw
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Sweets for Leisure Hours
A Phillips, E Phillips
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Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
William Henry Giles Kingston
Date unknown