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
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Fairy tales and novels
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Madame d' Aulmoy
1817
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes James
1904
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Griechische Kunstmythologie
Johannes Adolf Overbeck
1871German
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Les images ov tableavs de platte peintvre de Philostrate lemnien sophiste grec
Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, Blaise de Vigenère
1597French
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The Local Historian's Table Book: Of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts ..
Moses Aaron Richardson
1841
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The nature and effects of superstition
Thomas Manningham
1692
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The voyages to Vinland
fl. 985 Eric the Red
1896
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Transcaucasia
August Freiherr von Haxthausen, August Haxthausen, John Edward Taylor
1854
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Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
Ignatius Donnelly, Ignatius L. Donnelly
1882
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Fairy tales, legends and romances illustrating Shakespeare and other early English writers, to which are prefixed two preliminary dissertations
Joseph Ritson, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, William Carew Hazlitt
1875
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Sindbad the sailor
William Strang, Joseph Benwell Clark
1895
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A classical dictionary
John Lemprière
1822
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Highland legends and fugitive pieces of original poetry
Donald Shaw
1859
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La Penelope
Giuseppe Salio
1724Italian
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La geneologia de gli dei de gentili
Giovanni Boccaccio, Giuseppe Betussi
1569Italian
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Myths & legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Lewis Spence, Evelyn Paul
1916
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Of the nature of superstition
Edward Stillingfleet, J. Lambert, Henry Mortlock
1682
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Religionsgeschichtliche Studien zur Frage
Georg Wobbermin
1896German
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Der im Lichte der Wahrheit strahlende Rosenkreuzer
Bernhard Joseph Schleiss
1782German
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Die deutschen Volksmährchen
Johann Karl August Musäus, Christoph Martin Wieland, Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, Friedrich Müller
1804German
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Geneologia de gli dei
Giovanni Boccaccio, Giuseppe Betussi, Comin da Trino, Andrea Arrivabene
1547Italian
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Holzlandsagen: Sagen, Mährchen und Geschichten aus den Vorbergen des Thüringer Waldes
Kurt Gress
1870German
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Germaniens Völkerstimmen
Johannes Matthias Firmenich-Richartz, Johannes Matthias. Mundarten der Stammverwandten gothisch-germanischen Völker Firmenich-Richartz
1800German
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Nos hommes forts
André-Napoléon Montpetit, A.-André-Napoléon Montpetit
1884French