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
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- 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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Tractatus de superstitionibus contra maleficia seu sortilegia
Martín de Arles y Andosilla
1559Latin
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Traditions indiennes du Canada nord-ouest
Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot
1886French
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Tsenerene
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1736Yiddish

Two of everything
Lily Toy Hong
1992
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Ukrainian people
Antoni Nowosielski
1857Polish
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Unieseren Tagen
Johann Durmayer
1883German
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Übersicht der Niederländischen Volksliteratur alterer zeit
Franz Joseph Mone
1838German
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Virgils Aeneis
Aloys Blumauer
1784
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Volksmedicin und medicinischer Aberglaube in Steiermark
Viktor Fossel
1885German
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Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube in Bayern und den angrenzenden Bezirken, begründet auf die Geschichte der Medizin und Cultur
Gottfried Lammert
1869German
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Volkssagen aus dem Orlagau, nebst belehrungen aus dem sagenreiche
Börner, W
1838German
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Volume 1: L'Enéide
Virgil
1804French
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Volume 2: L'Enéide
Virgil
1804French
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Volume 3: L'Enéide
Virgil
1804French
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Volume 4: L'Enéide
Virgil
1804French
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parables, legends and thoughts of the Talmud and Midrash
David Rundo
1880Polish
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Étude sur la flexion dans le voyage de S. Brandan, poème anglo-normand du XIIe siècle
K. Brekke
1885French
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Етноґрафічний збірник. Томи 1895-1929 рр
1895Ukrainian

Beauty
Robin McKinley
1978

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry
1824

Why the Sky Is Far Away
Mary-Joan Gerson
1974

Abiyoyo
Pete Seeger
1986

Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard
1945

Fear Street Saga - Daughters of Silence
Wendy Haley, Robert Lawrence Stine
1997