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
Carrion comfort
Dan Simmons
1989
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De sapientia veterum
Francis Bacon
1609NOT
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Drei Märchen für Alt und Jung
Georg Moritz Ebers, Georg Ebers
1890German
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Ethnology in folklore
George Laurence Gomme, George Laurence Sir Gomme
1892
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Eumenides
Aeschylus, Arthur Sidgwick
1844
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Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural, With Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends
Charles Charles George Harper
1907
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Hawaiian mythology
Martha Warren Beckwith
1940
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Indian legends
John Ingham Hindley
1885
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Kentucky superstitions
Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas
1920
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Kinder- und Volksmärchen
Heinrich Pröhle
1853German
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Korean folk tales: imps, ghosts and fairies
Pang Im, James Scarth Gale, Yuk Yi, Im, Pang, 1640-1724|* Im Pang, Yi, Yuk, 1438-1498|* Yi Yuk
1913
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Labor among primitive peoples
George J Engelmann, George George Julius Engelmann
1882
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Legends and popular tales of the Basque people
Mariana Monteiro
1887
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Nordmaendenes religionsforfatning i hedendommen
Rudolph Keyser, Barclay Pennock
1847
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Notes on the folk-lore of the north-east of Scotland
Walter Gregor
1881
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Oral literature in Africa
Ruth H. Finnegan
1970
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Orpheus: myths of the world
Padraic Colum, Boris Artzybasheff
1930
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Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores
Ovid, Arthur Palmer, Kennedy, Grant Showerman, Dagmar Thoss, Octavien de Saint-Gelais, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Isocrates, G. Mathieu, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.|* Ovid
1502
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Seven against Thebes
Aeschylus
1812
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Tales from the totems of the Hidery
James Deans
1899
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
1990
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The English Gipsies and their language
Charles Godfrey Leland
1873
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The Vishńu Puráńa
H. H. Wilson, Fitzedward Hall
1840
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The Younger Edda: Also Called Snorre's Edda, Or the Prose Edda. An English Version of the ..
Snorri Sturluson, Rasmus Björn Anderson
1879