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
The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
Alfred Burdon Ellis
1894
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The animal-lore of Shakespeare's time
Emma Phipson
1883
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The antiquities & legends of Durham
Stanley Clark Bagg
1866
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The bardic stories of Ireland
Patrick Kennedy
1871
- Read free
The bog of stars
Standish O'Grady
1893
- Read free
The captain of the Polestar
A. Conan Doyle
1893
- Read free
The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Ca 10th Cent Abu Obeyd, Anne Blunt, Anne Lady Blunt
1892Arabic
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The classic myths in English literature and in art
Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch
1893
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The cosmology of the Ṛigveda
Henry White Wallis
1887
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The crown of wild olives
John Ruskin
1800
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The dawn of history
C. F. Keary, H. M. Keary, Annie Keary
1870
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The eerie book
Margaret Armour
1898
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The epic songs of Russia
Isabel Florence Hapgood
1885
- Read free
The everyday book; or, A guide to the year
William Hone, william Honew
1800
- Read free
The fall of Hochelaga
Horatio Emmons Hale
1894
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The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi
Joseph G. Baldwin, Joseph Baldwin
1853
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The folk lore and provincial names of British birds
C. A. Swainson, Charles Swainson
1886
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The great god Pan, and, The inmost light
Arthur Machen
1894
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The history of Hindostan
Thomas Maurice
1795
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The history of Pompey the little
Francis Coventry, Elsa Levy-Albaric
1751
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The history of fiction
John Dunlop
1845
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The home of a naturalist
Biot Edmondston
1888
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The houses of the Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia
Franz Boas
1888
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The league of the Iroquois, and other poems from the Indian muse
Benjamin Hathaway
1880