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
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Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders
William Henderson
1866
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Novels
Charles Brockden Brown
1887
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Nugae canorae
Charles Lloyd
1819
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain; chiefly illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions, New ed., with further additions, in Three Volumes, Vol. II
John Brand, Henry Sir Ellis
1854
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain; chiefly illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions, New ed., with further additions, in Three Volumes, Vol. III
John Brand, Henry Sir Ellis
1872
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Oedipus
John Dryden, Nathaniel Lee
1679
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Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
1819
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Old New Zealand
Frederick Edward Maning
1863
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Old Rabbit, the voodoo, and other sorcerers
Mary Alicia Owen
1893
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Old Scottish customs
E. J. Guthrie, Ellen Emma Guthrie
1885
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Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs
Thomas Frost
1874
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Old stone crosses of the vale of Clwyd and neighbouring parishes
Elias Owen
1886
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On Russian proverbs, as illustrating Russian manners and customs
J Long
1876
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On current British mythology and oral traditions
John Francis Campbell
1870
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On the march: a tales of the deccan
Gardiner Harvey
1867
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Onnalinda
John Hugh McNaughton
1884
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Opera
Publius Vergilius Maro
1502
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Operas
Richard Wagner
1861
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Opportunities for the study of folk-lore in Canada
John Reade
1892
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Optegnelser på Vendelbomål
Ove Larsen Grønborg
1884Danish
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Oriental and linguistic studies
William Dwight Whitney
1873
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Orientalist: Containing A Series Of Tales, Legends, And Historical Romances
Thomas Bacon, W. and E Finden, Meadows Taylor
1840
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Orion
Richard Henry Horne
1843
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Ossian and the Ossianic literature
Alfred Trübner Nutt
1899