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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A History of the Gipsies with Specimens of the Gipsy Language
James Simon, Walter Simson
1865
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A Huron historical legend
Horatio Emmons Hale
1883
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A Mohawk legend of Adam and Eve
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
1800
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A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature
John Dowson
1879
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A dictionary of Kashmiri proverbs & sayings
James Hinton Knowles
1885
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A dictionary of the Isle of Wight dialect, and of provincialisms used in the Island
William Henry Long
1886
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A handbook of legendary and mythological art
Clara Erskine Clement
1890
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A journey to Ashango-Land
Paul Bellom Du Chaillu
1807
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A love episode
Emile Zola
1887
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A short popular history of Crete
John Henry Freese
1897
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A view of the American Indians
Israel Worsley
1828
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Aeschyli Tragoediae
Aeschylus
1809
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Aesop Nitikatha
Aesop
1828
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Aftermath
James George Frazer
1936
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Agamemnon
Seneca the Younger
1708
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Algic Researches
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
1839
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American Indian fairy tales
Margaret Compton
1895
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An Essay on Female Infanticide; offered by the Bombay Government for the Best Essay against this Practice among the Rajputs of Kattiawar and Kutch was Awarded, 1844
Bhawoo Dajee
1847
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An introduction to the science of comparative mythology and folklore
George W. Cox
1881
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Ancient tales and folklore of Japan
Richard Gordon Smith
1908
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Anecdotes of dogs; by Edward Jesse
Edward Jesse
1846
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Animal and plant lore
Fanny Dickerson Bergen
1899
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Apology: addressed to the traveller’s club, or anecdotes of monkeys
Rose William Stewart
1825
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Appeal Of One Half The Human Race, Women, Against The Pretensions Of The Other Half, Men, To Retain Them In Political, And Thence In Civil And Domestic, Slavery
Thomason William
1825