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
Travels in various parts of Peru
Edmond Temple
1830
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Tsuni-llGoam
Theophilus Hahn
1881
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Twenty-Four Plates Illustrative of Hindu and European Mannners in Bengal
Mrs Belnos, A Colin
1832
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Uncle Remus and his friends
Joel Chandler Harris
1892
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Uncle Remus; or, The story of Mr. Fox and Brer Rabbiit
Joel Chandler Harris
1883
- Read free
Valhalla: the myths of Norseland
Julia Clinton Jones
1878
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Vedische Mythologie
Alfred Hillebrandt
1891
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Vepʻxistqaosani
Shota Rustaveli
1888
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Vera historia
Lucian of Samosata
1887
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Voyage en Orient
Gérard de Nerval
1867
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Wacousta, or, The prophecy
Major John Richardson
1851
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Wah-kee-nah and her people
James Clark Strong
1893
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Waikare-moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters
Elsdon Best, New Zealand. Dept. of Lands and Survey
1897
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Picturesque; during four and twenty years in the East with Revelations of Life in the Zenana, in Two Volumes, Vol. I
Fanny Parlby
1850
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in search of the Picturesque; during four and twenty years in the East with Revelations of Life in the Zenana, in Two Volumes, Vol. II
Fanny Parlby
1850
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Weather lore
Richard Inwards
1869
- Read free
Welsh folk-lore: a collection of the folk-tales and legends of North Wales
Elias Owen
1896
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Wild sports of the West of Ireland
William Hamilton Maxwell
1892
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William Russell and his descendants
Anna Russell Des Cognets
1884
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Zanzibar
Richard Francis Burton
1872
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Τρῳάδες
Euripides
1575
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گُلِستان
Saʻdī
1700
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Pinocchion seikkailut: Kertomus marioneteista
Carlo Collodi, Maija Halonen
Date unknownFinnish
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Pähkinänrusentaja ja hiirikuningas
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Salme Setälä
Date unknownFinnish