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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Tales About Birds, Illustrative of Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts
Thomas Bingley, Ebenezer Landells, William Bell Scott
Date unknown
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Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens
Tabitha Grimalkin, William Jay Baker, Hammatt Billings
Date unknown
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Tales From Scottish Ballads
Elizabeth Elizabeth Wilson Grierson, Allan Stewart
Date unknown
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Tales for Fifteen; Or, Imagination and Heart
James Fenimore Cooper
Date unknown
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Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Arthur Rackham
Date unknown
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Tales from Spenser, Chosen from the Faerie Queene
Sophia H. MacLehose, Edmund Spenser
Date unknown
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Tales from Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Molly K Bellew, H. S Campbell
Date unknown
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Tales from Westminster Abbey Told to Children
Frewen Lord, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Date unknown
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Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore)
Charles Sellers
Date unknown
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Tales of Daring and Danger
George Alfred Henty
Date unknown
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Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea
Thomas Bingley
Date unknown
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Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
Andrew Lang
Date unknown
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Tales of a Poultry Farm
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Date unknown
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Tales of the Punjab told by the people
Flora Annie Webster Steel, Flora Annie Steel
1894
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Tales of the Sea, and of Our Jack Tars
William Henry Giles Kingston, T Robertson, Stephen Miller
Date unknown
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Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves
Frances Freeling Broderip, Tom Hood
Date unknown
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Tales of the birds
W. Warde Fowler, Bryan Hook
Date unknown
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The Adopted Son: The Story of Moses
James Hartwell Willard
Date unknown
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The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
Padraic Colum, Willy Pogány
Date unknown
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The Adventures of Puss in Boots
Anonymous
Date unknown
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The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr.
David Cory, Elizabeth Jones Babcock
Date unknown
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The Animals' Christmas Tree
John John Punnett Peters
Date unknown
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The Babe in the Bulrushes
Amy Steedman
Date unknown
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The Babes in the Wood
Randolph Caldecott
Date unknown