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
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Conformité des ceremonies chinoises avec l'idolatrie grecque et romaine
Noël Alexandre
1700French
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De la religion du nord de la France avant le christianisme
Louis de Baecker
1854French
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Historiske fortællinger om islændernes færd hjemme og ude
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, 1827-1889, ed, Niels Matthias Petersen
1862Danish
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Les fables égyptiennes et grecques
Antoine-Joseph Pernety
1758French
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The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud; or, Biblical legends of the Mussulmans. Comp. from Arabic sources, and compared with Jewish traditions
Gustav Weil
1846
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The general prevalence of the worship of human spirits, in the antient heathen nations
Hugh Farmer, John Adams, John Adams Library BRL
1783
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The romantic legend of Sâkya Buddha
Samuel Beal
1875Chinese
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The tales of the sixty mandarins
P. V. Ramaswami Raju
1886
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Ueber die Druiden der Kelten und die Priester der alten Teutschen als Einleitung in die altteutsche Religionslehre
Christian Karl Barth
1826German
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Volksmährchen der Deutschen
Johann Karl August Musäus, Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch Kaulfuss, C. Armbruster, Rudolph Sammr
1815German
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A new history of Blue Beard
Gaffer Blackbeard, Charles Perrault
1806
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Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliotheces, sive, De deorvm origine libri tres
Apollodorus of Athens, Apollodorus, Benedetto Egio, Grammaticus Apollodorus
1564Latin
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Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen
Joseph Haltrich
1856German
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Die Sagen des Spessarts
Adalbert von Herrlein
1851German
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Die deutschen Volksbücher für Jung und Alt wiedererzählt
Gustav Schwab, Gustav Benjamin Schwab
1800German
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Erzählungen, Sagen und Legenden aus Ungarns Vorzeit
Alajos Mednyánszky, Alajos báró Mednyánszky
1829German
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Evripidis Tragoediae
Euripides, Samuel Musgrave, Richard Porson
1810Latin
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Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe
1629
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Highland superstitions
Alexander Macgregor
1901
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Ideen zur theologie und staatsverfassung des höhern alterthums
W. C. [from old catalog] Seybold, Wilhelm Christian Seybold
1820German
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen aus Süddeutschland
Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle, Joseph Zingerle
1854German
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Letters concerning mythology.
Thomas Blackwell
1748
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Sagen des Eifellandes nebst mehren darauf bezüglichen Dichtungen
Johann Hubert Schmitz
1847German
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Sagen und alte Geschichten der Mark Brandenburg
Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz, Friedrich Leberecht Wilhelm Schwartz, Wilhelm Schwartz
1871German