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
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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The Indian Gallows, and other poems
William Henry Rhodes
1846
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The book of legends told over again
Horace Elisha Scudder
1899
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The book of noodles: stories of simpletons
William Alexander Clouston
1888
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The vegetable lamb of Tartary
Henry Lee
1887NOT
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Thus endeth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende
Jacobus de Voragine, Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298|* Jacobus de Voragine
1483
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Vedic India as embodied principally in the Rig-Veda
Zénaïde A. Ragozin, Zénaïde Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
1895
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Zuñi breadstuff
Frank Hamilton Cushing
1884
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Die Ammen-Uhr: Aus des Knaben Wunderhorn
Ludwig Achim Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Ludwig Richter
Date unknownGerman
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Het Granaatappelhuis
Oscar Wilde, Berhardina Midderigh-Bokhorst, Liane van Oosterzee
Date unknownDutch
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Sint Nikolaas en zijn knecht
Jan Schenkman
Date unknownDutch
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Contes d'une grand-mère
George Sand
Date unknownFrench
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Le avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un burattino
Carlo Collodi, Carlo Chiostri
Date unknownItalian
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Arthur kuningas ja hänen jalot ritarinsa
Thomas Malory, Mary Macleod, Aino Lehtonen
Date unknownFinnish
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Shitakiri suzume
1886
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Onnellinen prinssi: Ynnä muita kertomuksia
Oscar Wilde, Helmi Krohn
Date unknownFinnish
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Peterchens Mondfahrt: Ein Märchenspiel
Gerdt von Bassewitz
Date unknownGerman
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...Teaching of the twelve apostles
Francis Brown
1884
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A Collection of Chinese Proverbs
William Scarborough
1875
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A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs explained and made Intelligible to the English Leader
James Kelly
1818
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A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time, Vol. I
Joseph Strutt
1796
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A Decade of Italian Women, in Two Volumes, Vol. I
T. Adolphus Trollope
1859
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A Decade of Italian Women, in Two Volumes, Vol. II
T. Adolphus Trollope
1859
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs; compiled from the best authorities in the Spanish Language, with explanatory illustrations from the Latin, Spanish and English Authors
John Collins
1823
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A Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore; being a collection of Proverbial sayings in various Languages relating to the Weather
C. Rev Swainson
1873