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
The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
2005
Bony-legs
Joanna Cole, Dirk Zimmer
1983
Fear Street - The Knife
Robert Lawrence Stine
1991
Pinocchio, A story by Coloddi (adaptation)
Carlo Collodi, Charles Perrault
1896
Stone soup
Ann McGovern
1968
The BFG
Roald Dahl
1732
The Fear Street Saga - The Secret
Robert Lawrence Stine
1993
The Regulators
Stephen King
1996
The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan
2012
Zomo the Rabbit
Gerald McDermott
1992
The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
2011
- Read free
'An Indian tale or two'
Robert Blair Swinton
1899
- Read free
-- Oedipe à Colone
Sophocles
1859French
- Read free
... Pope's The Iliad of Homer, book I, VI, XXII, and XXIV
Όμηρος
1898
- Read free
...1.--Songs of the Helcucka society; 2.--A Teton Dakota ghost story; 3.--Ponka stories; 4.--Abstracts of Ponka and Omaha myths
James Owen Dorsey
1888
- Read free
1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described: Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and ..
Edward Sylvester Ellis
1899
- Read free
A Collection of Yukon River Indian legends
1899
- Read free
A History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great by George Grote
1869
- Read free
A Rational Account of the Weather,: Shewing the Signs of Its Several Changes and Alterations ...
John Pointer
1738
- Read free
A Selection from the Writings of Henry R. Cleveland: With a Memoir
Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard
1844
- Read free
A book of ballad stories
Mary Macleod Banks
1880
- Read free
A boy I knew and Four dogs
Laurence Hutton
1898
- Read free
A catechism of mythology
William Darlington
1832
- Read free
A classical dictionary of India
John Garrett
1871