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
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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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Traditionary stories extant among the Tapoia Indians inhabiting the valley of the middle Amazon in northern Brazil
Edward Sprague Rand
1882
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Translation of the Odyssey of Homer
Όμηρος
1849
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Travellers' tales
H. C. Adams
1883
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Tree and serpent worship
James Fergusson
1868
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Two tragedies of Seneca
Seneca the Younger
1899
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Un-natural history, or Myths of ancient science
Edmund Goldsmid
1886
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Uncle Remus, and, Nights with Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
1880
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Universal mythology
Henry Christmas
1838
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Voyages de Cyrus
Ramsay Chevalier
1727
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Voyages of the Northmen to America
Edmund F. Slafter
1877
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Wab-ah-see, a legend of the Sleeping Dew
M. Jennie Kutz
1868
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Wandering Jew
Moncure Daniel Conway
1881
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Winona
E. L. Huggins
1890
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Woman's influence in the East
John J. Pool
1892
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Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. 1/2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1898
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Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson ..
H. H. Wilson
1862
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Wyandot Folk-lore
William Elsey Connelley
1899
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Yorkshire bibliographer
Joseph Horsfall Turner
1888
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Yorkshire folk-lore journal
Joseph Horsfall Turner
1888
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Yorkshire notes and queries
J. Horsfall Turner
1888
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You don't say so
Ward Platt
1877
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iron and steel structures
Charles M. Cresson
1875
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uvres badines complettes, du comte de Caylus
Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus
1787
Atlantis Destroyed
Rodney Castleden
1988