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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Gleanings from Indian classics
Manmatha Nath Dutt
1893
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Gods and heroes
R. E. Francillon
1896
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Goose-quill papers
Louise Imogen Guiney
1885
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Grecian and Roman mythology for schools
M. A. Dwight
1872
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Greek and Roman mythology
Hermann Steuding
1897
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Greek vases
Susan Horner
1897
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Greek vases, historical and descriptive
Susan Horner
1897
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Gudrun and other stories from the epics of the Middle Ages
John Gibb
1881
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Hawaii and its people
Alexander S. Twombly
1899
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Hector
J.-Charles-J Luce de Lancival
1809French
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Helena in Troas
John Todhunter
1886
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Hellenika
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer
1837German
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Helps to the study of classical mythology
Benjamin L. D'Ooge
1899
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Hero and Leander
Musaeus Grammaticus
1633
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Hibernian nights' entertainments
Samuel Ferguson
1857
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Historical and Traditional Tales in Prose and Verse, Connected with the South of Scotland ..
John Nicholson
1843
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Historical sketches of savage life in Polynesia; with illustrative clan songs
William Wyatt Gill
1880
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History of the Hindu triad (Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva)
Christian Literature Society for India
1897
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Holidays with hobgoblins
Dudley Costello
1861
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Holy cross
William Cowper Prime
1877
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Homer
D. D. Whedon
1855
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Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams
George Chapman
1858
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Homērou Ilias =
Όμηρος
1871
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Horae Hellenicæ
John Stuart Blackie
1874