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
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Troubadour Tales
Evaleen Stein, Edward Edwards, Virginia Keep, Maxfield Parrish, Bernard J Rosenmeyer
Date unknown
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Troumbüchlin
Walther Hermann Ryff, Philipp Melanchthon
1555German
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True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales
S. C. Hall
Date unknown
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Ulysses of Ithaca
Karl Friedrich Becker, 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, George George Putnam Upton
Date unknown
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Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose
Howard Roger Garis, Edward Bloomfield
Date unknown
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Up! Horsie!
Clara de Chatelain
Date unknown
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Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
J. Storer Clouston
Date unknown
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Verotchka's Tales
Dmitrii Narkisovich Mamin-Siberiak, Boris Artzybasheff, Ray Davidson
Date unknown
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Vice in its Proper Shape
Anonymous
Date unknown
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Wayward Winifred
Anna Anna Theresa Sadlier
Date unknown
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What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, Alfred Walter Bayes, Henry William Dulcken
Date unknown
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When I Was a Little Girl
Zona Gale, Agnes Pelton
Date unknown
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With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds
Frances Nimmo Greene, Dolly Williams Kirk
Date unknown
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Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Clara Miller Burd
Date unknown
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Woodland Tales
Ernest Thompson Seton
Date unknown
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Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812
James Barnes, Carlton T Chapman, Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
Date unknown
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Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Date unknown
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Young Folks' History of Rome
Charlotte Charlotte Mary Yonge
Date unknown
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Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands
Hezekiah Butterworth
Date unknown
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Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands;
Hezekiah Butterworth
Date unknown
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Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices.
621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Samuel Croxall
Date unknown
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Æsop's Fables: A Version for Young Readers
Jenny H. Stickney, 621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, Charles Livingston Bull
Date unknown
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6 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Tales, Medicine, and Islamic magic
Anonymous, Avicenna
1700Arabic