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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The Anglo-Saxon version of the life of St. Guthlac, hermit of Crowland
Felix
1848ANG
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The Antigone of Sophocles
Sophocles
1869
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The Bible and the monuments ; The primitive Hebrew records in the light of modern research
William St. Chad Boscawen
1895
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The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud: Or, Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans. Comp. from Arabic ..
Gustav Weil
1846
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The Brazen Age
Thomas Heywood
1613
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The Calendar plant of China, the cosmic tree and the date palm of Babylonia
Terrien de Lacouperie
1890
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The Chaldean account of Genesis, containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs, and Nimrod
George Smith
1876
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The Chaldean account of Genesis... from the cuneiform inscriptions
George Smith, A. H. Sayce
1880
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The Cuchullin saga in Irish literature
Eva M. Cuchulain
1898
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The Earthy Paradise: A Poem
William Morris
1871
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The Ebbing of the Tide: South Sea Stories
Louis Becke
1896
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The Edinburgh tales
C. I. Johnstone
1845
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The Gentile nations
George Smith
1853
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The Handbook of Folklore
George Laurence Gommer
1890
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The Helen of Euripides
Euripides
1895
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The Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee the confederacy of the Iroquois the six nations a poem bound with Birch Bark legends of Niagara founded on traditions among the Iroquois, or six nations
Harriet Maxwell Converse
1884
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The Iliad
Όμηρος
1864
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The Indian Antiquary
James Burgess, Richard Carnac Temple, John Faithful Fleet, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Charles Evelyn Arbuthnot William Oldham
1893
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The Indian Pass
Henry Van Hoevenbergh
1888
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The International folk-lore congress of the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 ..
International folk-lore congress
1898
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The Iphigeneia at Aulis of Euripides
Euripides
1896
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The Kembles
Percy Fitzgerald
1871
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The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards Secretary of State, to ..
John Strype
1821
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The Mabinogion: From the Llyfr Coch O Hergest, and Other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, with an ...
Charlotte Guest
1849