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
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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
Mammy's reminiscences, and other sketches
Martha S. Gielow
1898
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Manual of classical literature
Johann Joachim Eschenburg, N. W. Fiske
1836
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Manual of mythology
Alexander Stuart Murry
1893
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Many thoughts of many minds
George W Carleton
1882
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Maya religion and mythology
Charles Pickering Bowditch
1881
- Read free
Medea, tragedy of Seneca
Seneca the Younger
1834
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Medieval lore
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
1890
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Meleagros; The new Calvary
Laughton Osborn
1871
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Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius
Moussinot abbé
1750
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Minnewaska
Ina E. Wood Van Norman
1897
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Mona miscellany
William Harrison
1869
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Mopping up!
Jack Munroe
1873
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Mr. Spinks and his hounds
F. M. Lutyens
1890
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My household of pets
Théophile Gautier
1882
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Mythographoi
Anton Westermann
1843
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Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans
Karl Philipp Moutz
1830
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Mythological inquiry into the recondite theology of the heathens
Isaac Preston Cory
1837
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Mythologie der Griechen und Römer.
Otto Seemann
1880
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Mythology and monuments of ancient Athens
Pausanias
1890
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Mythos bei den Hebräern und seine geschichtliche Entwickelung
Ignác Goldziher
1877
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Myths in medicine and old-time doctors
Alfred Charles Garratt
1884
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Myths of Hellas, or, Greek tales, told in German by Professor C. Witt
Karl Witt
1891
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Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art
H. A. Guerber
1895
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Myths of old Greece
Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick
1896