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
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A collection of Temne traditions, fables and proverbs
Christian Friedrich Schlenker
1861
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A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits
Michael Aislabie Denham
1846
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A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian
Hugh Blair
1763
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A description of the Shetland Islands
Samuel Hibbert
1822
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A dictionary of English plant-names
James Britten
1878
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A dictionary of mythology
John Hendricks Bechtel
1899
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A dissertation on the extraordinary attributes and inherent virtues of fixed phlogistic earth ... submitted ... as an universal and infallible remedy in every distemper ... incident to the human frame. To which is added a succinct memorandum ... on the same subject
Innocenzo della Lena
1801
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A dog of Flanders, and other stories
Ouida
1872
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A glossary of Greek birds
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1895
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A glossary of west Worcestershire words
Edith L. Chamberlain
1882
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A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, including a selection of local names, and some notices of folklore, games, and customs
Sidney Oldall Addy
1888
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A grammar of infinite forms; or, The mathematical elements of ancient philosophy and mythology
William Howison
1823
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A group of old authors
Clyde Bowman Furst
1899
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A handbook of mythology
S. A. Edwards
1883
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A legend of Warm Springs
Edward Robeson Taylor
1870
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A manual of Scandinavian mythology, containing a popular account of the two Eddas and of the religion of Odin
Grenville Pigott
1839
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A migration legend of the Creek Indians
Albert Samuel Gatschet, Academy of Science of St. Louis
1884
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A mythic tale of the Isleta Indians, New Mexico
Albert Samuel Gatschet
1891
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A paper (read at the monthly sessional meeting at No. 1, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.)
Alfred Jones
1881
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A smaller classical dictionary of biography, mythology, and geography
William Smith
1852
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Adam Davy's 5 dreams about Edward II
Frederick James Furnivall
1878
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Aeschyli Eumenides
Aeschylus
1853
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Aeschyli fabulae, cum lectionibus et scholiis codicis Medicei et in Agamemnonem codicis Florentini ab Hieronymo Vitelli denuo collatis, edidit N. Wecklein
Aeschylus
1822
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Agamemnon's daughter
Denton Jaques Snider
1885