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
- Read free
The poets and nature
Phil Robinson
1893
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The prayer of a Navajo shaman
Washington Matthews
1888
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The pre- and proto-historic Finns, both eastern and western
5th Baron Abercromby John Abercromby
1898
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The pre-and proto-historic Finns
5th Baron Abercromby John Abercromby
1898
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The prose, or, Younger Edda commonly ascribed to Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, George Webbe Dasent
1842
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The record of my ancestry
Charles Lyman Newhall
1899
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The recuyell of the historyes of Troy
Raoul Lefèvre
1894
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The religions before Christ
Edmond de Pressensé
1862
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The remains of the late Mrs. Richard Trench
Melesina St. George Trench
1862
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The rise, progress, and present structure of the English language
Matthew Harrison
1848
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The romance of the Cheuelere assigne
Henry Hucks Gibbs
1868
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The ruling races of prehistoric times in India, southwestern Asia, and southern Europe
James Francis Katherinus Hewitt
1894
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The sacred tree
J. H. Mrs Philpot
1897
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The science of breath and the philosophy of the tattvas
Rama Prasada
1894
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The science of folk-lore
Richard Carnac Temple
1886
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The seege of Troye
Seege of Troye
1899
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The seven against Thebes of Aeschylus
Aeschylus, Isaac Flagg
1885
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The ship's company and other sea people
J. D. Jerrold Kelley
1897
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The skies and Weather-forecasts of Aratus
Aratus Solensis
1880
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The sleepy king
Aubrey Hopwood
1898
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The story of Howard the Halt
Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris
1891
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The story of Nana-bo-zhoo and his brother
William Hodgson Ellis
1888
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The story of Vedic India as embodied principally in the Rig-Veda
Zénaïde A. Ragozin
1895
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The story of a gold concession
J. Forsyth Ingram
1893