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
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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
Raccolta di Proverbi Toscani con Illustrazioni
Giuseppe Giusti
1853Italian
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Recueil des opera, des balets, & des plus belles pieces en musique
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1687French
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Religion und Mythologie der alten Aegypter
Heinrich Brugsch, Heinrich Karl Brugsch
1885German
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Religions de l'antiquité: considérées principalement dans leurs formes symboliques et ...
Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Joseph-Daniel Guigniaut
1825French
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Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen
Hermann Usener
1889German
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Reseña histórico-descriptiva de antiguas y modernas supersticiones del Río de la Plata
Daniel Granada
1896Spanish
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Roggenwolf und Roggenhund
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1866German
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Sagen aus Britisch-Columbian
Franz Boas
1891German
Scary Stories 3
Alvin Schwartz
1991
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Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit
Hermann Gunkel
1895German
Seven blind mice
Ed Young
1992
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Sophocle
Sophocles
1877French
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Tableau des Moeurs Francaises aux Temps de la Chevalerie tire du Roman de sire Raoul et de la belle Ermeline, Vol. I
Pierre de Rigaud de Cavagnial Vaudreuil
1825French
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Tableau des Moeurs Francaises aux Temps de la Chevalerie tire du Roman de sire Raoul et de la belle Ermeline, Vol. III
L. C. P. D V.
1825French
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The Byrth LYF and Actes of Kyng Arthur, Vol. I
Robert Southey
1817ANG
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The Byrth LYF and Actes of Kyng Arthur, Vol. II
Robert Southey
1817ANG
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The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World
Duchess of Newcastle
1668ANG
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The Fable of the Bees, Part II
Bernard Mandeville
1729ANG
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The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, with an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools and a Search into the Nature of Society, to which is added, a Vindication of the Book from the Aspersions contain’d in a Presentment of the Grand-Jury of Middlesex and an abusive Letter to Lord C., 6th ed
Bernard Mandeville
1732ANG
The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
2010
The Trojan War
Olivia E. Coolidge
1952
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The Watcher and Other Weird Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
1894
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The children of Odin
Padraic Colum, Willy Pogany, Thomas DuBois
1920
The weaving of a dream
Marilee Heyer
1986