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
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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Stories from The Arabian nights
M. Clarke
1897
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Stories of animal life
Charles Frederick Holder
1899
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Story of Sigurd the Volsung
William Morris
1877
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Sturlunga saga
Sturla Þórðarson
1878
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Suffolk
Eveline Camilla Newton Lady Gurdon
1893
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Sunrise stories
Roger Riordan
1896
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Supplement to a Classical dictionary of India
John Garrett
1873
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Tabaré
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
1883Spanish
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Tales about birds
Thomas Bingley
1839
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Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight
Abraham Elder
1839
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Tales and legends of national origin
William Carew Hazlitt
1899
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Tales and legends of national origin or widely current in England from early times
William Carew Hazlitt
1892
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Tales and rhymes in the Lindsey folk-speech
Mabel G. W. Peacock
1886
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Tales from ten poets
Harrison S. Morris
1893
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Tales from the Norse grandmother
Augusta Larned
1881
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Tales from the fjeld
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1896
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Tales of an Indian Camp
James Athearn Jones
1829
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Tales of other days
John Yonge Akerman
1830
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Tales of the Zenana
W. B. Hockley
1874
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Tales of the sun
Georgiana Kingscote
1890
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Temple of the Fairies
[name Missing]
1804
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The " Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy
Guido delle Colonne, Huchown, Henri Benoit, George A. Panton, David Donaldson
1869
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The Ajax of Sophocles
Sophocles
1888
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The American Folk-lore Society
American Folklore Society
1894