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
- Read free
Swahili Tales as told by Natives of Zanzibar
Edward Steere
1870
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Tales from the lands of nuts and grapes
Charles Sellers
1888
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Tales in political economy
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
1874
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
1856
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Tales of Thebes and Argos
George George William Cox
1864
- Read free
Tales of the Mississaguas
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
1800
- Read free
Tales of the North American Indians, and adventures of the early settlers in America
Barbara Hawes
1844
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Tales of the gods and heroes
George George William Cox
1863
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Tales of the seven deadly sins
John Gower
1889
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Tales of the sun
Lucas Cleeve
1890
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The Alaska Indian mythology
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
1890
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The Anglo-Saxon legends of St. Andrew and St. Veronica
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, Andrew, Veronica
1851
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The Annals Of My Village
Mary Roberts
1831
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The Anvar-I Suhaili; or, the Lights of Canopus; being the Persian version of the Fables of Pilpay; or, the Book Kalilah and Damnah rendered into Persian, literally translated into Prose and Verse
Edward Tr. Eastwick, Husain Va’iz U’l’-Kashifi
1854
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The Arabian Nights
Scheherazade
1849
- Read free
The Arabian Nights, Entertainments; in the Original Arabic, Vol. I, containing the Stories of 100 Nights
Arabian Nights
1874Arabic
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The Book of Costume; or, Annals of Fashion, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Wilton
1846
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The Book of Perfumes
Eugene Rimmel
1865
- Read free
The Cambrian popular antiquities
Peter Roberts
1815
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The Cegiha language
James Owen Dorsey
1890
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The Contendings Of The Apostles
E. A. Wallis Budge
1899
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The Costume of the Ancients, Vol. II
Thomas Hope
1841
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The Crayon miscellany
Washington Irving
1835
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The Daughters of England their position in Society, Character and Responsibilities
Ellis
1842