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
Leyendas de los indios quichuas
Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar
1892Spanish
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Légendes des îles Hawaii
Pierre Adolphe Lesson
1884French
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Légendes canadiennes
H. R. Casgrain
1861French
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Maximes Et Reflexions Morales
La Rochefoucauld
1815French
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Maximes du duc de la Rochefoucauld precedes of une notice sur sa vie par suard; Pensees Diverses de Montesquieu; Oeuvres Choisies de Vauvenargues
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
1861French
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Memoirs of the secret societies of the south of Italy, particularly the carbonari
Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
1821NOT
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Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps
Joseph-François Lafitau
1724French
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Moeurs, coutumes et religions des sauvages américains
Joseph-François Lafitau
1839French
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Monographie des Dènè-Dindjié
Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot
1876French
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Mythologie der griechischen Stämme
Heinrich Dietrich Müller
1857German
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Mythologie des alten Indien
Anton Edmund Wollheim da Fonseca
1856German
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Mythologie und Civilisation der nordamerikanischen Indianer
Karl Knortz
1882German
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Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes [sic] et relligion [sic] des sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale
Nicolas Perrot
1864French
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Neues mythologisches Wörterbuch
Friedrich Gotthilf Klopfer, Paul Friedrich Achat Nitsch
1821German
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Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche
Adalbert Kuhn
1848German
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Nunta la români
Simion Florea Marian
1890Romanian
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Obras poéticas
Lope de Vega
1653Spanish
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Orpheus; untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion
Ernst Maass
1895German
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Pensées diverses sur la comète
Pierre Bayle
1721French
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Phaeton
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1683French
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Piece by Ziemianin
Jan Czeczot
1846Polish
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Piosnki Villagers from Nemunas and Daugava, some proverbs and idiocy in Slavonic and Cretaceous speech
Jan Czeczot
1846Polish
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Poesies Inedites du Moyen Age, precedees d’une Histoire de la Fable Esopique
M. Edelestand du Meril
1854French
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Polish peasant and his tales
Stanisław Kamiński
1862Polish