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
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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
- Read free
The book of friendly giants
Eunice Fuller, Seymour Barnard, Pamela Colman Smith
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The children's book of Christmas
J. C Dier
Date unknown
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The genial sultan; The princess who could not see; Late for the coronation
Harriet Maxon Thayer
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The golden heart, and other fairy stories
Violet Jacob, May Sandheim
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The magic speech flower; or, Little Luke and his animal friends
Melvin Hix
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The oriental story book
Wilhelm Hauff, John William Orr, George Payn Quackenbos
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The poor Count's Christmas
Frank R Stockton, Edmund Birckhead Bensell
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The promised land
Catharine Shaw
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The red feathers
Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Charles Livingston Bull
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The sociable Sand Witch
Thomas Lambert Sappington
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The sons of Kai
Henry Beston, Donald Horace Dickerman
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The star jewels, and other wonders
Abbie Farwell Brown, Ethel Ethel Clare Brown
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The story of Aaron (so named) the son of Ben Ali
Joel Chandler Harris, Oliver Herford
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The story of Santa Klaus
William S Walsh
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The story of the Iliad
Alfred John Church, 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer
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The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) told for young people
Anna Alice Chapin
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The three bears
Albert Ernest Kennedy
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The true story of Humpty Dumpty
Anna Alice Chapin, Ethel Franklin Betts
Date unknown
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Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes
Catherine Ann Turner Dorset, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
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Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation
Joel Chandler Harris, J. M Condé, Arthur Burdett Frost, Frank Ver Beck
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Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas
Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton
Date unknown
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Tolstoi for the young: Select tales from Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy, Michel Sevier, R. S Townsend
Date unknown
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Top-of-the-World Stories for Boys and Girls
Emilie Poulsson, Julius Krohn, Helena Nyblom, Zacharias Topelius, Florence Liley Young, Laura Laura Elizabeth Poulsson
Date unknown
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Treasury of American Indian Tales
Theodore Whitson Ressler
Date unknown