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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Angir dprutʻiwn ew aṛakkʻ
Vahan Tēr-Minasean
1893Armenian
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Anhang zu Homers Odyssee, Schulausgabe
Karl Friedrich Ameis
1865German
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Anmerkungen zu Konrads Trojanerkrieg
Karl Bartsch
1877German
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Annual customs: 110 common songs, carols, songs by the crib, speeches and vol. d. from the mouth of the people and books
1888Polish
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Anthologie populaire de l'Albret (sud-ouest de l'Agenais ou Gascogne landaise)
Leopold Dardy
1891French
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Antigone des Sophokles
Felix Mendelssohn
1842German
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Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica ad cod. ms. Laurentianum
Apollonius Rhodius
1872Latin
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Apotheose de Hercules
José Agostinho de Macedo
1830Portuguese
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Arabesques mythologiques, ou Les attributs de toutes les divinités de la fable ... ouvrage fait ..
comtesse de Genlis Stéphanie Félicité
1810French
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Arabische Mährchen
[name Missing]
1839German
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Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari
Giuseppe Ptrè
1893
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Archäologische beiträge
Otto Jahn
1847German
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Ardschuna's Reise zu Indra's Himmel: Nebst anderen Episoden des MAHA-bharata
Franz Bopp
1824German
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Argonauticon libri octo
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
1519Latin
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As mouras encantadas e os encantamentos no Algarve
Ataíde Oliveira
1898Portuguese
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Atheteseon Sophoclearvm specimen ...
Albert Zippmann
1864Greek
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Atlas pour servir à l'histoire grecque de E. Curtius
Auguste Bouché -Leclercq
1883French
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Auctores Mythographi Latini; Cajus Julius Hyginus, Fab. Planciad. Fulgentius, Lactantius Placidus, Albricus Philosophus cum integris commentariis Jacobi Micylli, Joannis Schefferi et Thomae Munckeri, quibus accedunt Thomae Wopkensii emendationes ac conjecturae, curante Augustino van Staveren
1742Latin
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Aus dem Sagenschatz der Harzlande
Friedrich Günther
1893German
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Aus dem Volksleben der Magyaren: Ethnologische Mitteilungen
Heinrich von Wlislocki
1893German
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Aus dem Wigwam
Karl Knortz
1880German
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Ausfuhrliches lexikon der griechischen und romischen mythologie
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
1884German
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Ausgewa hlte schriften des Lucian
Lucian of Samosata
1869Ancient Greek
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Ausgewählte tragödien des Euripides
Euripides
1871German