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
Mamelons and Ungava
William Henry Harrison Murray
1890
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Manual of Mythology in Relation to Greek Art
Maxime Collignon
1890
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Medea
Seneca the Younger
1648Latin
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Memorial of the Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Held at Philadelphia, June 1864
Charles J Stille
1864
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Merlin, or, The early history of King Arthur
Henry Benjamin Wheatley, William Edward Mead, David William Nash
1899
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Metmorphoses
trans Nathan L. Bailey, Ovid
1815
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Monumens de la mythologie
Paul Henri Mallet
1847
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More Australian legendary tales
K. Langloh Parker
1898
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More kindred of the wild
Charles G. D. Roberts
1890
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Mysterious legends of Edinburgh
Alexander Leighton
1864
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Mythologia Aesopica metro elegiaco redita
Charles Utenhove
1607
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Mythology of the British Islands
Charles Squire
1905
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Myths & legends of the Middle Ages
H. A. Guerber
1896
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Nada the Lily
H. Rider Haggard
1890
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Narratives of the rites and laws of the Yncas
Cristóbal de Molina, Clements R. Markham
1873
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Natal stones
George Frederick Kunz, Dahlia Nightly
1892
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Norse mythology
Rasmus Björn Anderson
1875
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Northern Mythology
Benjamin Thorpe
1851
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Notes on Eskimo traditions
Harlan Ingersoll Smith
1894
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Notes on the Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders
S Baring-Gould, William Henderson
1866
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Notes on the Shuswap people of British Columbia
George Mercer Dawson
1891
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Notes on the Snanaimuq
Franz Boas
1889
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Notes on the cosmogony and history of the Squamish Indians of British Columbia
Charles Hill-Tout
1897
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Notes on the ethnology of British Columbia
Franz Boas
1887