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
- Read free
The Story of Alexander
Robert Steele, Fred Mason
Date unknown
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The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls
Mary Macgregor, Walter Crane
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The Story of Jack and the Giants
Richard Doyle, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel
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The Story of Noah's Ark
E. Boyd Smith
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The Story of Peter Pan, Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie
Daniel O'Connor, James Matthew Barrie, Alice B Woodward
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The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls
Mary Macgregor, Dudley Heath, William Rainey, Paul Woodroffe
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The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi
Elizabeth D Renninger, J. L. S Williams
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The Story of a Dewdrop
John John Ross Macduff
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The Story of a Robin
Agnes S Underwood
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The Story of the Odyssey
Alfred John Church, 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer
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The Story of the White Mouse
Unknown
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The Story-teller
Maud Lindsay, Florence Liley Young
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The Three Bears
Anonymous
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The Three Mulla-mulgars
Walter De la Mare, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop
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The Treasure of the Isle of Mist
William Woodthorpe Tarn
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The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature
Ada Ada Maria Skinner, Eleanor Eleanor Louise Skinner, Maxfield Parrish
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The Two Doves, and Other Tales.
Anonymous
Date unknown
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The White Man's Foot
Grant Allen, Joseph Finnemore
Date unknown
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The Wonder Clock; or, four & twenty marvellous Tales
Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle
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The Wonderful Story of Blue Beard, and His Last Wife
George Cruikshank
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The Young Lord, and Other Tales; to which is added Victorine Durocher
Newton Crosland, Mary Martha Sherwood, Walter George Mason, Harrison Weir
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The Young Railroaders
Francis Lovell Coombs
Date unknown
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The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, Arthur Rackham
Date unknown
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The black ship: with other allegories and parables
Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Date unknown