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
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Fables de M. de Florian; de l’Academic Francoise, de celles de Madrid, Florence, etc
M. de Florian
1792French
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Fables sénégalaises
Roger M. le baron
1828French
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Fabliaux; ou, Contes due XIIe et du XIIIe siecle, traduits ou extraits d’Apres divers Manucrits du tems; avec des Notes historiques and critiques and les imitations qui ont ete faites de ces Contes depuis leur jusqu’a nos jours, Vol. I
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand D’Aussy
1779French
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Fabliaux; ou, Contes due XIIe et du XIIIe siecle, traduits ou extraits d’Apres divers Manucrits du tems; avec des Notes historiques and critiques and les imitations qui ont ete faites de ces Contes depuis leur jusqu’a nos jours, Vol. II
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand D’Aussy
1779French
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Fabliaux; ou, Contes due XIIe et du XIIIe siecle, traduits ou extraits d’Apres divers Manucrits du tems; avec des Notes historiques and critiques and les imitations qui ont ete faites de ces Contes depuis leur jusqu’a nos jours, Vol. III
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand D’Aussy
1779French
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Fairy tales
Albert Ludwig Grimm, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
1800

Favorite Greek Myths
Mary Pope Osborne
1988
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First resurrected thought about the existence of God: ancient legend
Shalom ben Yaaqov Cohen
1840Hebrew
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Folk-lore and legends; North American Indian.
1890
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Folk-lore brésilien
Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery
1889French
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Forestiers et voyageurs
Joseph-Charles Taché
1884French
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Fremstilling af nordens mythologi for dannede læsere
Karsten Friis Wiborg
1843Danish
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Georg Forster's sämmtliche Schriften
Georg Forster
1843German
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Germanische Mythen
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1858German
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Geschichte der amerikanischen Urreligionen
Johann Georg Müller
1855German
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Geschichte der christlichen Missionen unter den Indianern Nordamerikas im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
Gottfried Fritschel
1870German
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Gesta Romanorum, das ist Der Rœmer tat
Adelbert von Keller
1841GMH
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Gli sforzi del desiderio ricreazione dramatica musicale ai serenissimi arciduchi Ferdinando Carlo, e Sigismondo Francesco d'Austria, ed arciduchessa Anna di Toscana
Andrea Mattioli
1652Italian
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Griechische Mythologie
Ludwig Preller, E. Plew
1854German
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Götterlehre
Karl Philipp Moritz
1700German
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Handbuch der ebräischen Mythologie
Martin Schultze
1876German
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Hatim Ta,ee: A Romance in the Persian Language
James Atkinson, Hatim bin Abda’llah bin Sa’ad A’t-Ta’iy
1818Persian
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Hestia-vesta: Ein Cyclus religionsgeschichtlicher Forschungen
August Preuner
1864German
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Hexenprocess und glauben, pfaffen und teufel; als beitrag zur cultur- und sittengeschichte der jahrhunderte
Hössli, Heinrich
1892German