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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The Giant Hands; or, the Reward of Industry
Alfred Crowquill
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The Goblins' Christmas
Elizabeth Anderson, Alexander Sharp
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The Golden-Breasted Kootoo, and Other Stories
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Edmund Edmund Henry Garrett
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The History of Tom Thumb
Henry Altemus
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The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories.
Anonymous
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The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale.
Francis Edward Paget
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The Iceberg Express
David Cory
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The Jester's Sword
Annie Annie Fellows Johnston, E. B Bauer
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The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales
William Patten, Charles William Eliot, William Allan Neilson
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The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths
William Patten
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The Junior Classics, Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome
William Patten
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The Junior Classics, Volume 4: Heroes and heroines of chivalry
William Patten
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The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
William Patten
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The Junior Classics, Volume 9: Stories of To-day
William Patten
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The Kiltartan wonder book
Lady Gregory, Margaret Gregory
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The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales
Amy Walton, Warwick Goble
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The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest
Jasmine Stone Van Dresser, William Van Dresser
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The Little Gingerbread Man
George Haven Putnam, Robert Gaston Herbert
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The Little Glass Man, and Other Stories
Wilhelm Hauff, Lina Eckenstein
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The Little House in the Fairy Wood
Ethel Cook Eliot
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The Little Maid of Israel
Emma Howard Wight
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The Little Red Hen
Florence White Williams
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The Lost Giant, and Other American Indian Tales Retold
Violet Moore Higgins
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The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood
Josephine Daskam Bacon, Fanny Y Cory
Date unknown