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
- Read free
The Magic Fishbone
Charles Dickens
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The Magic Soap Bubble
David Cory
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The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories
Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Child
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The Man with the Pan-Pipes, and Other Stories
Mrs Molesworth, Walter Jenks Morgan
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The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass
Kenneth Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie, Alfred Crowquill
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The Mary Frances Story Book; or, Adventures Among the Story People
Jane Eayre Fryer, Edwin John Prittie
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The Merman and the Figure-Head
Clara Clara Florida Guernsey
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The Miraculous Pitcher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Mouse's Wedding
Unknown, David Thompson
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The National Nursery Book
Unknown
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The Only True Mother Goose Melodies
Anonymous
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The Peace Egg and Other tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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The Peacock 'At Home' AND The Butterfly's Ball AND The Fancy Fair
Catherine Ann Turner Dorset, William Roscoe
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The Pearl Story Book
Mrs. Colman
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The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Ada Ada Maria Skinner, Eleanor Eleanor Louise Skinner
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Other Poems
Robert Browning
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The Pirate Frog, and Other Tales
William Albert Frisbie, Charles Lewis Bartholomew, Fred. R Bartholomew
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The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic
Anonymous
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The Russian story book
Richard Wilson, Frank Cheyne Papé
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The Sa'-Zada Tales
William Alexander Fraser, Arthur Heming
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The Seven Plaits of Nettles, and other stories
Edric Vredenburg, May Bowley, Hilda Cowham, T Noyes Lewis
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The Song of Sixpence
Walter Crane
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The Spell of the White Sturgeon
Jim Kjelgaard
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The Starlight Wonder Book
Henry Beston, Maurice Day
Date unknown