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
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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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Ossian's Fingal
James Macpherson
1814
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Outlines of primitive belief among the Indo-European races
C. F. Keary
1882
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Paramār̲atakuruvin̲ katai
Costantino Giuseppe Beschi, Constantino Beschi Guiseppe, B. Babington, Viramamooni
1822
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Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
1885
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Pentamerone
Giovanni Battista Basile
1850
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Plays
Euripides
1894
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Poetry of the age of fable
Thomas Bulfinch
1863
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Polifemo
Luis de Góngora y Argote, Alfonso Callejo, Maria Teresa Pajares
1629
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Popular Romances of the Middle Ages
George W Cox
1871
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Popular Superstitions And Festive Amusements Of Highlanders Of Scotland
Popular F W
1823
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Popular Tales of the West Highlands; orally collected with a translation, Vol. I
J. F Campbell
1860
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Popular Tales of the West Highlands; orally collected with a translation, Vol. II
J. F Campbell
1860
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Popular Tales of the West Highlands; orally collected with a translation, Vol. III- Mythological Tales Fables and Ossianic Ballads
J. F Campbell
1862
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Popular Tales of the West Highlands; orally collected, Vol. IV- Postscript Ossianic Controversy-British Tradition, Prose and Poetry-Mythology-Highland Dress Celtic Ornament, etc. etc
Tr. Campbell
1862
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Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus
1541French
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Proverbs and their Lessons; being the substance of Lectures delivered to Young Men’s Societies, 6th ed
Richard Chenevix Trench
1869
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Provincial names and folk lore of British birds
C. A. Swainson, Charles Swainson
1885
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Puranic encyclopaedia
Vettam Mani, Veṭṭaṃmāṇi
1968
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Pythian odes
Pindar
1854German
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Raghuvaṃśa
Kālidāsa
1832
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Religion and myth
James MacDonald
1893
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Repression of Female Infanticide in the Bombay Presidency: A Compilation Report, setting out briefly all the Measures taken to repress the Crime in Gujarat and some of the Neighbouring Native States and the Result of those Measures (Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. CXLVII.- New Series)
Bombay Presidency. Government of Bombay Records, H. R Cooke, J. Revd Wilson
1875
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Researches into the nature and affinity of ancient and Hindu mythology
Vans Kennedy
1831
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Reynard the Fox in South Africa or Hottentot fables and tales
Wilhelm H. I Bleek
1864