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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The life of the learned Sir John Cheke, kt
John Strype
1705
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The lives of Mabâ' Sĕyôn and Gabra Krĕstôs
E. A. Wallis Budge
1898
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The masque of Pandora
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1875
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The medical mythology of Ireland
James Mooney
1887
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The metrical history of Tom Thumb the Little
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1860
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The metropolitan pulpit
1839
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The ministry of flowers
Hilderic Friend
1885
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The myth of Kirkê, including a visit of Odysseus to the shades
Robert Brown
1883
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The mythology of Greece and Rome
Otto Seemann
1877
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The mythology of ancient Greece and Italy [for students at the University]
Thomas Keightley
1838
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The mythology of the Efatese
MacDonald Rev
1899
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The mythology of the Hindus
Charles Coleman
1832
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The natural history of superstition ..
John Trenchard
1709
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The new Pandora
Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
1889
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The new Pantheon
W. Jillard Hort
1836
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The night of the gods
John O'Neill
1893
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The obsequies of Orpheus
Andrew Carr Kemper
1887
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The odes of Pindar in English prose
Pindar
1824
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The phonology of the Elis saga
Jessie Louise Jones
1897
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The physicians of Myddvai
John ab Ithel Williams
1861
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The plays of Sophocles
Sophocles
1886
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The pocket encyclopaedia of natural phenomena
Thomas Furley Forster
1827
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The poetical works of the Rev. George Croly
George Croly
1830
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The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis
John Mitchell Kemble
1843ANG