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 story of the Rhinegold
Anna Alice Chapin
1897
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The talking thrush
William Crooke
1899
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The traditional poetry of the Finns
Domenico Pietro Antonio Camparetti
1898
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The traditional poetry of the Finns
Domenico Comparetti, Isabella Mary Anderton
1898
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The tragedies of Sophocles: in English prose
Sophocles
1849
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The tragedies of Œschylus: literally translated
Aeschylus
1849
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The transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
1893
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The tree of mythology, its growth and fruitage
Charles De Berard Mills
1889
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The universal dictionary of biography and mythology
Joseph Thomas
1887
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The wars of Alexander
Leo Archipresbyter, Walter W. Skeat
1886
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The works of P. Virgilius Maro
Publius Vergilius Maro
1882
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The world's literature
Mary Elizabeth Burt
1890
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The Æneid of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory; a Metrical Clavis, and an ..
Publius Vergilius Maro
1881
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Theocracy
Robert C. Craig
1848
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Theophrastus of Eresus on winds and on weather signs
Theophrastus
1894
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Thoas
Arthur Sitgreaves Mann
1899
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Three northern love stories
Eiríkr Magnússon
1875
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Tis-sa-ack and Tu-tock-ah-nu-lah
Stella Vienna Standish
1894
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To the members of the Grange Patrons of Husbandry of Canada, these essays, Flora, Ceres, and Ponoma are respectfully dedicated by Mrs. Moffat, Edge Hill, Ontario
Christina Moffat
1886
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Told in the coffee house
Cyrus Adler, Allan Ramsay
1898
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Told on the pagoda
M. Chan-Foon
1895
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Tom Tug and Others: Sketches in a Domestic Menagerie
Alice Murray Dew -Smith
1898
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Tombs in and near Rome ; Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture
John Henry Parker
1877
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Topics for the study of Greek mythology, based on Bulfinch's "Age of fable,"
Anna Gooding Dodge
1895