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
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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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Der kameruner Schiffsschnabel und seine Motive
Leo Frobenius
1897German
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Der neu-aramaeische dialekt des Tûr Ȧbdín
Eugen Prym
1881German
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Der sprachliche Ausdruck einiger der geläufigsten Gesten im altfranzösischen Karlsepos
Hermann Bredtmann
1889French
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Der troische Sagenkreis in der ältesten griechischen Kunst
Arthur Schneider
1885German
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Der trojanische Krieg..
Konrad von Würzburg
1858GMH
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Der ursprung der mythologie
F. L. W. Schwartz, Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz
1860German
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Des Gervasius von Tilbury Otia imperialia
Gervase of Tilbury
1856German
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Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen
Franz Grillparzer
1872German
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Des durch seine Zauber-Kunst bekannten Christoph Wagners
Fridericus Schotus
1712German
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Des erreurs populaires relatives à la médecine
Anthelme Richerand
1810French
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Descrizione storico-critico-mitologica delle celebri pitture esistenti nei reali palazzi Farnese e Farnesina in Roma
Michelangelo Prunetti
1816Italian
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Deutsche Alterumskunde
Karl Müllenhoff, Max Roediger
1887
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Deutsche Mythologie in gemeinverständlicher Darstellung
Paul Herrmann
1898German
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Deutsche Sagen in ihrer entstehung, fortbildung, und poetischen gestaltung
Jakob Nover
1895German
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Deutscher Volkshumor
Moritz Busch
1877German
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Dictionnaire classique d'histoire
Louis Grégoire
1887French
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Dictionnaire de la fable. Adopt©♭ par le Conseil de l'instruction publique pour les coll©♭ges et autres maisons d'©♭ducation ...
François Noel
1828French
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Dictionnaire des légendes du christianisme, ou, Collection d'histoires apocryphes et merveilleuses se rapportant à l'Ancien et au Nouveau Testament, de vies des saints également apocryphes et de chants populaires
Jules comte de Douhet
1855French
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Dictionnaire encyclope dique, d'histoire, de biographie de mythologie et de ge ographie
Louis Gre goire
1878French
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Dictionnaire encyclopédique d'histoire
Louis Grégoire
1872French
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Dictionnaire mythologique universel
Eduard Adolf Jacobi, E. Jacobi
1846French
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Dictionnaire mythologique universel: ou, Biographie mythique des dieux et ..
Eduard Adolf Jacobi
1854French
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Dictys Cretensis Ephemeridos belli troiani libri sex
Dictys Cretensis
1872Latin
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Dictys und Dares: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Troja-sage in ihrem ..
Gustav Körting
1874German