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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Boss and Other Dogs
Maria Louise Pool
1896
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Brazil, the Amazons and the coast
Herbert Huntington Smith
1879
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Britton
Francis Morgan Nichols
1865
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Bruno
Byrd Spilman Dewey
1899
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By-ways of literature
David Hilton Wheeler
1883
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Caliban: the missing link
Daniel Sir Wilson
1873
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Cannon-flashes and pen-dashes ..
Richard Henry Greene
1866
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Catalogue of a collection of objects illustrating the folklore of Mexico
Frederick Starr
1899
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Caudatus Anglicus
George Neilson
1896
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Celebrated sanctuaries of the Madonna
J. Spencer Northcote
1868
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Celtic and mediæval romance
Alfred Trübner Nutt
1899
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Celticism a myth
James Cruikshank Roger
1884
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Chaucer's Legende of goode women
Geoffrey Chaucer
1864
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Chinese folklore
Guido barone Vitale
1896Chinese
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Chinese nights e̓ntertainment
Adele M. Fielde
1893
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Chips from a German Workshop [4/5]
F. Max Müller
1885
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Choephoroi
Aeschylus
1836Ancient Greek
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Cinderella picture book
Walter Crane
1897
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Classic mythology
C. Witt, Karl Witt
1883
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Curious facts in the history of insects
Frank Cowan
1865
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Customs and manners of the women of Persia, and their domestic superstitions
Kuls ø¿±m Nah¿ah
1832
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Damon and Pythias
Richard Schiel
1829
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Damon and Pythias
A. Cressy Morrison
1890
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Danish folk tales
J. Christian Bay
1899Danish