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
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Mythologie élémentaire contenant un précis de la mythologie des Égyptiens, des Perses, des Indous, des Scandinaves et des Gaulois, à l'usage des classes, par M. Édom,... 2e édition. Edition 9
Jacques Édom
1852French
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Notice sur la Finlande
Eugène Beauvois
1893French
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Petite encyclopédie de l'enfance, ou Leçons élémentaires de grammaire, de géographie, de mythologie, d'histoire. Tome 1
Adélaïde Billet Dufrénoy
1817French
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Phaedri... Fabulae aesopiae. Recensuit, usus editione codicis rosanboniani ab Ulixe Robert comparata, Ludovicus Havet
Phèdre
1895Latin
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Remarques sur les inscriptions antiques de Paris
Robert Mowat
1883French
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Selectae fabulae, e gallico D. de La Fontaine latine redditae [ab H. Delphatio]
Henri Delfault, Jean de La Fontaine
1695Latin
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Teratoscopie du fluide vital et de la mesambulance, ou Démonstration physiologique et psychologique de la possibilité d'une infinité de prodiges réputés fabuleux ou attribués par l'ignorance des philosophes et par la superstition des ignorans, à des causes fausses ou imaginaires , par C.-R. H
C R Hannapier
1822French
The Kinslayer Wars
Douglas Niles
1991
The Mammoth Hunters
Jean M. Auel
1611
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King
1985
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Theatrum vitae humanae. A I. I. Boissardo vesuntino conscriptum, et à Theodoro Bryio artificiosissimis historiis illustratum
Jean-Jacques Boissard, Theodor de Bry
1596Latin
Two Old Women
Velma Wallis
1993
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Vers sur la mythologie d'Ossian , lus au premier Consul chez le Consul Lebrun, le 23 vendémiaire an IX
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser
1800French
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Études d'archéologie orientale. L'imagerie phénicienne et la mythologie iconologique chez les Grecs, par Ch. Clermont-Ganneau,... 1re partie
Charles Clermont-Ganneau
1880French
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
2000
Etruscan magic & occult remedies
Charles Godfrey Leland
1963
Mules and Men (P.S.)
Zora Neale Hurston
1935
Phèdre
Jean Racine
1677
The Heir
Johanna Lindsey
2000
A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows / A Dance with Dragons)
George R. R. Martin
1996
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A book of the beginnings
Gerald Massey
1881
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A motif-index of traditional Polynesian narratives
Bacil F. Kirtley
1961
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Annancy stories
Pamela Colman Smith
1899
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Bibliography of Latin American folklore
Ralph Steele Boggs
1940