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
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
- Read free
Old song and new
Margaret Junkin Preston, Margaret Mrs Preston
1870
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The Dunwich Horror
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
1963
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The story of Burnt Njal
George Webbe Dasent
1861
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The story teller and other tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Boner
1885Danish
- Read free
[Opera]
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid
1480Latin
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Erste urkunden der geschichte
Johann Arnold Kanne
1808German
- Read free
L'arsenal de la dévotion
Paul Parfait
1876French
- Read free
Sammlung altenglischer Legenden
Carl Horstmann, de Voragine Jacobus
1878
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Swanhilde, and other fairy tales
Carolyn Norris Horwitz
1889
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Swenska Folkets Sagohäfder
Arvid August Afzelius
1845Swedish
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Tales of a wayside inn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathan Haskell Dole
1863
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The coronation stone
William Forbes Skene
1869
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A gift from fairy land
James Kirke Paulding, John Gadsby Chapman
1838
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An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the ...
Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes
1878
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Arabian Nights
Anonymous, William Harvey Edward William Lane
1839
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Catalogue of a series of pictures upon the subject of human culture, painted for the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, by James Barry, royal academician, professor of painting to the Royal Academy, and member of the Clementine Academy of Bologna
James Barry, Society of Arts
1784
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Hans in luck
Jacob Grimm
1800
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Los últimos iberos
Vicente de Arana
1882Spanish
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Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sagenkunde
Max Grünbaum
1893German
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The book of the thousand nights and one night
William Hay Macnaghten, Henry Whitelock Torrens
1838
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The dragon of Wantley
Owen Wister, John Stewardson
1892
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The hymns of Callimachus
Callimachus, William Dodd, Theocritus
1755
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The phantom ship
Frederick Marryat
1839
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T©đrui♯Łea♯t ı̀iarmuda agus ♯ r©Łinne =
Standish Hayes O'Grady
1880