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
- Read free
Arabic Proverbs; or, the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Illustrated from their proverbial sayings current at Cairo, 2nd ed
John Lewis Burckhardt
1875Arabic
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Architecture, mysticism and myth
W. R. Lethaby
1892
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Askaros Kassis, the Copt.: A Romance of Modern Egypt
Edwin de Leon
1870
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Atalanta's Race
William Morris
1888
- Read free
Aventures de Télémaque
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
1699
- Read free
Berlin Inn 6ten Februar, 1852. Hochverehrte freundin, wie leid es mir tut nicht zu Können!
Jacob Grimm
1852
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Beside the Fire
Douglas Hyde
1890
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Bible folk-lore
James E. Thorold Rogers
1884
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Bibliotheca
Patriarch of Constantinople Photius I Saint
1606
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Bibliotheca historica
Diodorus Siculus
1472Latin
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Birds of omen in Shetland
Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby
1893
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Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
1870
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British Goblins
Wirt Sikes
1880
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Broach and its Exhibition in 1868
W. Martin Wood
1868
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Caliban
Daniel Wilson
1873
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Canadian folk-life and folk-lore
William Parker Greenough
1897
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Celtic Mythology
John Arnott MacCulloch
1918
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Character and Costumes of Afghanistan
Lockyer Willis Capt Hart
1843
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Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical, 3rd ed., Vol. I
Mrs Jameson
1835
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Characteristics of Women; Moral, Poetical and Historical, 3rd ed, in Two Volumes, Vol. II
Mrs Jameson
1835
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Choix De Fables; Traduites en Turk par Un Effendi De Constantinople
Letellier L Victor
1826
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Cinderella
Marian Roalfe Cox
1893
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Commentaries on Hebrew and Christian mythology
Parish B. Ladd
1896
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Complete Collection of English Proverbs, also, the most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other Languages
J Ray
1817