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

Landmarks of Homeric study
William Ewart Gladstone
1890
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Lays of the red branch
Samuel Ferguson
1897
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Leaves from Sherwood Forest
January Searle
1850
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Leaves from the Golden Legend
Jacobus, Jacobus de Voragine, H. D. Madge, C. M. Watts
1899
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Leaves from the Golden legend
Jacobus de Voragine
1898
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Leaves of antiquity
Johann Gottfried Herder
1849
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Legenda aurea - Légende dorée - Golden legend
Pierce Butler
1899
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Legends and myths of the aboriginal Indians of British Guiana
W. H. Brett
1879
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Legends and traditions of Huntingdonshire
W. H. Bernard Saunders
1888
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Legends from River & Mountain
Alma Strettell
1896
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Legends of Switzerlan
H. A. Guerber
1899
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Legends of the Braes o' Mar
John Grant
1876
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Legends of the Madonna as represented in the fine arts
Jameson Mrs
1867
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Legends of the Yukon Indians
1899
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Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts
Jameson Mrs
1863
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Legends of the springtime
R. Hoyt
1899
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Legends, customs and social life of the Seneca Indians
John W. Sanborn
1878
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Levi Woodbury family papers
Levi Woodbury
1865
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Lights and lines of Indian character, and scenes of pioneer life
Joshua Victor Hopkins Clark
1854
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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920
Pamela Thurschwell
2001
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London legends
John Yonge Akerman
1842
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Louisiana folk-tales
Alcèe Fortier
1895
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Magic in names and in other things
Edward Clodd
1920
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Mama's black nurse stories
Mary Pamela Ellis Milne-Home
1890