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
The legend of Maiden Rock
Robert Sidney Wayland
1870
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The legend of the white canoe
William Trumbull
1894
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The legendary lore of the holy wells of England
Robert Charles Hope
1893
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The legends of the Panjâb
Richard Carnac Temple
1884
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The life and letters of James Macpherson
T. Bailey Saunders
1894
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The loves of Hero and Leander
Grammaticus Musaeus
1797
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The martyrs of the Coliseum
A. J. Oreilly, Augustine J. O'Reilly
1871
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The misfortunes of Elphin
Thomas Love Peacock
1829
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The music of the waters
Laura Alexandrine Smith
1888
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The mythology of the Aryan nations
George W. Cox
1870
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The native races of the Pacific states of North America
Hubert Howe Bancroft
1874
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The native religions of Mexico and Peru
Albert Réville
1884
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The odes of Pindar
Pindar
1749
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The old gentleman of the black stock
Thomas Nelson Page
1897
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The origin of primitive superstitions and their development into the worship of spirits and the doctrine of spiritual agency among the aborigines of America
Rushton M. Dorman
1881
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The plays of Euripides
Euripides
1602
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The popular religion and folk-lore of northern India
William Crooke
1896
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The prairie
J.F Cooper
1836
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The rocks of Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland
Thomas Turner Wysong
1880
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The seven lamps of architecture
John Ruskin
1800
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The slang dictionary
John Camden Hotten
1864
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The sources of Spenser's classical mythology
Alice Elizabeth Randall
1896
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The sun-god
Junius E. Wharton
1889
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The talking thrush
W. H. D. Rouse, W. Heath Robinson, William Crooke, William 1848-1923 Crooke
1899