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
- 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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Aischylou Agamemnōn =
Aeschylus
1844
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Aislinge Meic Conglinne =
Kuno Meyer, W. M. Hennessy
1892
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All right
1860
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An Archaic Dictionary: Biographical, Historical, and Mythological, from the Egyptian, Assyrian ..
William Ricketts Cooper
1876
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An Old French prose version of La vie de St. Alexis
Alexius Saint
1896
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An account of the sphinx at Mount Auburn
Jacob Bigelow, Martin Milmore
1872
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An archaic dictionary, biographical, historical, and mythological
W. R. Cooper
1876
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An ghaoth aniar
Tomás Ó Máille
1920
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An outline of Greek and Roman mythology
Francis W Kelsey
1889
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Ancient fragments, containing what remains of the writings of Sanchoniatho, Berossus, Abydenus, Megasthenes, and Manetho
Isaac Preston Cory
1828
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Ancient legends, mystic charms & superstitions of Ireland
Wilde Lady
1888
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Andersen's Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1893
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Andreas
Robert K. Root
1899
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Annual report
Massachusetts rifle club. [from old catalog]
1858
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Annual report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Florida
Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, Florida Railroad Commission
1898
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Arbores mirabiles
Joseph Taylor
1812
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Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain
Edward Lhuyd
1707
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Argo
Alexander William Crawford Lindsay
1876
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Astronomical myths
J. F. Blake
1877
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Bahama songs and stories
Charles Lincoln Edwards
1895
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Ballads and songs of Brittany
Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué
1865BRE
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Baptijumik heiligemik
Friedrich Erdmann
1820
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Better than men
Rush C. Hawkins
1896
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Border notes and mixty-maxty
Joseph Crawhall
1880