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
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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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A brief account of Bushman folk-lore and other texts
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
1875
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Ethica symbolica e fabularum umbris in veritatis lucem varia eruditione, noviter evoluta
Michael Pexenfelder, Johann Hermann von Geldern, Sebastian Rauch, Johann Wagner
1675Latin
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List of works relating to Italian popular tales in the possession of T. Frederick Crane, Ithaca, N.Y.
Thomas Frederick Crane
1879
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Records of Argyll
Archibald Lord Campbell, Archibald Campbell
1885
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Tales and traditions of Ayrshire and Galloway
Andrew Glass
1873
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Early Ideas: A Group of Hindoo Stories
Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
1881
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Ipermestra
Pietro Metastasio, Luigi Baldi, Domenico Gabrielli, Lazaro Grondoni, Giuseppe Libretto for: Sarti, Gio. Battista Oliverio, Giuseppe Pedocca, Giuseppe Salamoni
1733Italian
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Philosophy of popular superstitions, and the effects of credulity and imagination upon the moral, social, and intellectual condition of the human race
Samuel Samuel Bulfinch Emmons, Samuel Bulfinch Emmons
1853
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Spanish legendary tales
Maria Trinidad Howard Middlemore, Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore
1885
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The Legends of the Jews
Louis Ginzberg
1909
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The Oxonian in Thelemarken; or, Notes of travel in southwestern Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district
Frederick Metcalfe
1858
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The legendary ballads of England and Scotland
John Storm Roberts
1868
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Euripidēs =
Euripides, F. A. Paley, Willem Canter, Aemilius Portus
1518
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Lappländische Märchen, Volkssagen, Räthsel und Sprichwörter
Josef Calasanz Poestion, Josef Poestion
1886German
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Natalis Comitis Mythologiae siue explicationum fabularum libri X
Natale Conti
1581Latin
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The language of flowers
Frederic Shoberl
1835
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Legends of the Saxon saints
Aubrey De Vere
1879
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Sagenschatz des Luxemburger Landes
N. Gredt
1883German
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Stories and tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Eduard Kretzschmar, Vilhelm Pedersen, M. L. Stone
1870
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The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd
John Carrington
1698
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Poems of Oisin, bard of Erin
John Hawkins Simpson, James Macpherson
1857
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The first six books of Virgil's Aeneid
Publius Vergilius Maro, John Quincy Adams, John Adams, John Adams Library BRL, Alexander Strahan, Virgil
1753
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Libri tre di m. Lodovico Dolce
Camillo Leonardi
1565Italian
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Népdalok és mondák: A kisfaludy-társaság megbizásábul szerkesti és kiadja ..
János Erdélyi, Erdélyi, János, 1814-1868, compiler, editor
1846Hungarian