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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Imagines deorvm, qvi ab antiqvis colebantvr
Vincenzo Cartari, Antoine Du Verdier, Bolognino Zaltieri
1581Latin
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Les mille et un fantomes
Alexandre Dumas
1849
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Narodnyi͡a︡ russkiia skazki
A. N. Afanasʹev, Afanasʹev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
1855Russian
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Popular antiquities of Great Britain, comprising notices of the moveable and immoveable feasts, customs, superstitions and amusements past and present
John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt
1870
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Sagabibliothek med anmærkninger og indledende afhandlinger
Peter Erasmus Müller
1817Danish
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Skythika
Georg Liebusch
1833NOT
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
Edgar Allan Poe
Date unknown
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Wandering ghosts
F. Marion Crawford, M. Leone Bracker
Date unknown
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Edipo tiranno di Sofocle
Sophocles, Orsatto Giustiniani
1585
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Gesammtabenteuer
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1850German
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Parnassus biceps
Jean Jacques Boissard
1627Latin
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Popular fairy tales
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Madame d' Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, Benjamin Tabart, Charles Perrrault, Richard Phillips and Co
1818
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Gilbert Murray, John Symmons Aeschylus
1824
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
1894
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The Monk: A Romance
Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis
1796
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The Willows
Algernon Blackwood
2002
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The folk-lore of Rome
Rachel Harriette Busk
1874
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Tooke's pantheon of the heathen gods and illustrious heroes
François Pomey
1817
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A lecture on popular superstitions
Bernard Whitman, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection DLC [from old catalog]
1824
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Badisches sagenbuch
August Schnezler, Hermann Flamm, Heinrich Schreiber, Joseph Waibel
1898German
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Eric Brighteyes
H. Rider Haggard
1890
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Maniliani Bononiensis monumenti historico-mystica lectio
Alessandro Negri
1661Italian
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Prayer and the healing of disease
William Swan Plumer Bryan, W. S. Plumer. [from old catalog] Bryan
1896
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Tales from the Eastern-land
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1847