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
- Read free

Fairy life
John H. Haaren
1896
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Fairy tales far and near
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1895
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Famous pets of famous people
Eleanor Lewis
1892
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Fingal
James Macpherson
1763
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Finn and his companions
Standish O'Grady
1892
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Fire-burial among our Germanic forefathers
Karl Blind
1875
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First Six Books of Virgil's Æneid
Publius Vergilius Maro
1753
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First book of the Iliad
Όμηρος
1831
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Fishes of Fancy: Their Place in Myth, Fable, Fairytale and Folk-lore, with Notices of the Fishes ..
Phil Robinson
1883
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Flora's dictionary
E. W. Wirt
1830
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Floral poetry and the language of flowers
J. H. S
1877
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Flower lore
[Carruthers Miss]
1879
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Flowers and flower lore
Hilderic Friend
1884
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Folk-lore and legends, Oriental and North American Indian
1894
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Folk-lore from Adams county, Illinois
Harry Middleton Hyatt
1935
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Folk-lore of modern Greece
Edmund Martin Geldart
1884
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Folk-lore, old customs and tales of my neighbours
Fletcher Moss
1898
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Folklore in southern India
S. M. Natesa Sastri
1884
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Foundation studies in literature
Margaret S. Mooney
1895
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Frithjofs saga
Esaias Tegnér
1831
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From darkness to light in Polynesia
William Wyatt Gill
1894
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Gaelic mythology
Hector Maclean
1879
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Genesis and Semitic tradition
John D Davis
1894
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German popular stories
Edgar Taylor, Jacob Ludwig C. Grimm
1876