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
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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
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David Cusick's sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations, comprising first a tale of the foundation of the great island, the two infants born, and the creation of the universe; second, a real account of the early settlers of North America and their dissensions; third, origin of the Kingdom of the Five Nations, which was called A Long House
David Cusick
1848
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Deceptera from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid
1865
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith
1844
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Die homerischen Realien
Eduard Buchholz
1884
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Dikanikos logos in Euripides
James Thomas Lees
1891
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Diomed
John S. Wise
1897
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Diomede
Όμηρος
1869
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Dog Stories from the "Spectator": Being Anecdotes of the Intelligence, Reasoning Power ...
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1895
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Doĭne: Or, the National Songs and Legends of Roumania
Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
1854
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Dreams and reveries of a quiet man
Theodore S. Fay
1832
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Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern ..
Samuel Sharpe
1863
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Elements of mythology, or, Classical fables of the Greeks and Romans
Eliza Robbins
1830
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English fairy and other folk tales
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1890
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English folk-lore
T. F. Thiselton Dyer
1878
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English folk-rhymes
G. F. Northall
1892
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Epitome of Greek and Roman mythology
John S Hart
1853
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Eric, Prince of Lorlonia, or, The valley of wishes
Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey
1895
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Essays civil and moral
Francis Bacon
1892
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Essays in the study of folk-songs
Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington contessa Martinengo-Cesaresco
1800
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Evolution and creation
Herbert Junius Hardwicke
1887
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Fables and proverbs from the Sanskrit
Henry Morley, Charles Wilkins
1886
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Fables respecting the Popes of the Middle Ages, a contribution to Ecclesiastical history
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
1871
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Fairy Tales for Little Readers
Sarah J. Burke
1894
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Fairy book
Rebecca Sophia Clarke
1865