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
Horae Subsecivae
John Brown
1890
- Read free
Household tales with other traditional remains
Sidney Oldall Addy
1895
- Read free
Household tales with other traditional remains, collected in The Counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham
Sidney Oldall Addy
1895
- Read free
Ilchester lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature
Moses Gaster
1887
- Read free
Ilias
Όμηρος
1871
- Read free
In Quest of the Holy Grail: An Introduction to the Study of the Legend
Sebastian Evans
1898
- Read free
In chimney corners
Seumas MacManus
1899
- Read free
India in Greece
Edward Pococke
1852
- Read free
Indian legends, Nanabush
John Ingham Hindley
1885
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Introduction to the study of the Holy scriptures
Henry Martyn Harman
1884
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Ion
Thomas Noon Talfourd
1835
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Ion; a tragedy, in five acts
Thomas Noon Talfourd
1835
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Iphigenia
Allen R. Darrow
1888
- Read free
Jacob at Bethel
Abram Smythe Palmer
1899
- Read free
Jacques Milet's drama, "La destruction de Troye la grant"
Thomas Edward Oliver
1899
- Read free
Jewish folk-lore in the middle ages
Moses Gaster
1887
- Read free
Joseph of Arimathie
Saint Joseph of Arimathea
1871
- Read free
Kaffir Folk-lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current Among the People Living on the ..
George McCall Theal
1886
- Read free
Key to the Iliad of Homer
Όμηρος
1872
- Read free
Kilns, mills, millers, meal and bread
Walter Gregor
1894
- Read free
King Horn
Horn King
1866
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King Horn
J. Rawson Lumby, George Harley McKnight
1866
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Kypros, the Bible and Homer
Max Hermann Ohnefalsch-Richter
1893
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Lady Goodchild's fairy ring
Sarah Goodchild
1860