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
- Read free

The book of cats
Charles H. Ross
1868
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The book of legends
Horace Elisha Scudder
1899
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The borrowed bride
Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy
1892
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The brazen serpent
Religious Tract Society
1819
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The cats' Arabian nights, or, King Grimalkum
Abby Morton Diaz
1881
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The cattle raid of Cualnge (Tain bo Cuailnge)
L. Winifred Faraday
1904
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The chronicles of Jerahmeel
[Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi]
1899
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The collected writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" bellman of Glasgow
Dougal Graham
1883
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The coming of the mammoth
Henry B. Hirst
1845
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The creed of Japhet
Alexander William Crawford Lindsay
1891
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The cult of Asklepios
Alice Walton
1894
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The cuse of intellect
Gwendolen] Lady Cecil
1895
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The customs and lore of modern Greece
James Rennell Baron Rennell Rodd, Rennell Rodd
1892
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The dialect of Hartland, Devonshire
Richard Pearse Chope
1891
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The dramas
Aeschylus
1881
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The dramas of Sophocles rendered in English verse, dramatic & lyric
Sophocles
1888
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The dream of Chicago
Arthur] of Chicago. [from old catalog Brown
1889
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The element of truth in popular beliefs
Lauder Brunton
1887
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The extraordinary adventures of the seven champions of Christendom
Richard Johnson
1861
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The fable of Phaeton
Ovid
1828
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The fisher-boy Urashima / [translated] by B. H. Chamberlain
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1892
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The folk-literature of Bengal
Dineshchandra Sen
1920
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The gentile system of the Navajo Indians
Washington Matthews
1890
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The giant crab
Jatakas
1897