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
- Read free
The Eẇe-speaking peoples of the slave coast of West Africa
Alfred Burdon Ellis
1890
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The Folk-Lore of Rome; collection by word of mouth from the people
R. H Busk
1874
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The Foray Of Queen Meave
Aubrey De Vere
1882
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The Gulistān
Saʻdī
1636
- Read free
The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor
1847
- Read free
The Homeric hymns
Όμηρος
1806
- Read free
The Indian Bazaar, 43 Johnson St., Victoria
J. J. Hart
1899
- Read free
The Indians of British Columbia
Franz Boas
1888
- Read free
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
George Cruikshank, Thomas Ingoldsby, John Leech
1864
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The Iroquois Trail, or, Footprints of the Six Nations
William Martin Beauchamp
1892
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The League of the Iroquois, and Other Legends: From the Indian Muse
Benjamin Hathaway
1881
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The Madonna in legend and history
Elizabeth C. Vincent
1899
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The Magic of the Horse-Shoe
Robert Means Lawrence
1898
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The Melanesians
Robert Henry Codrington
1891
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The Mountain Chant
Washington Matthews
1887
- Read free
The Olympian and Pythian odes
Pindar
1754
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The Paris Spectator; or, l’Hermite de la Chaussee-d’Antin, containing Observations upon Parisian Manners and Customs at the commencement of the Nineteenth Century; translated from the French, in Three Volumes, Vol. I, II, III
W Jerdan
1815
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The Phoenissae of Euripides
Euripides
1879
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The Scourning of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
Richard Doyle, Thomas Hughes
1859
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The Siwash, their life, legends and tales
J. A. Costello
1895
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The Story of an African Farm
Olive Schreiner
1883
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The Three Theban Plays
Sophocles, Robert Fagles
1956
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The Vale of Glamorgan: Scenes and Tales Among the Welsh
Charles Redwood
1839
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The White Hills
Thomas Starr King
1860