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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Readings in folk-lore
Hubert Marshall Skinner
1893
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Researches into the history of the British dog
George R. Jesse
1866
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Revelation, mythology, correspondences
James John Garth Wilkinson
1887
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Rheinisches Sagenbuch
Wilhelm Ruland
1896
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Richard Plantagenet
Thomas Hull
1774
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Roman antiquities and ancient mythology for classical schools
Charles K. Dillaway
1831
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Romulus and Remus
Charles Remington Talbot
1888
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Rough notes on the snake symbol in India, in connection with the worship of Siva
J. H. Rivett-Carnac
1879
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Scandinavian folk-lore
William A. Craigie
1896
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School law of the state of Florida
Florida
1877
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Seinte Marherete the meiden ant martyr, in Old English
Thomas Oswald Cockayne
1866
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Select passages from the metamorphoses
Ovid
1872
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Seynt Graal, or The Sank Ryal
Henry Lovelich
1861
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Shetland fireside tales
George Rippey Stewart
1892
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Shireen and her friends
William Gordon Stables
1895
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Signs & omens
1900
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Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity
[author not identified]
1845
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Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and Other American Indian Tales
Amelia Harrison
1895
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Some legendary landmarks of Africa
Frank Mrs Evans
1893
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Sophocles
Clifton Wilbraham Collins
1873
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Sophocles
Lewis Campbell
1879
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Sophoclis tragoediae
Sophocles
1828Ancient Greek
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South Island Maoris
James West Stack
1898
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Stories about animals
Mayne Reid
1885