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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Dit is die istory van Troyen van Jacob van Maerlant
Jacob van Maerlant
1889Dutch
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Dizionario di mitologia egizia
Ridolfo V[ittorio] Lanzone
1881Italian

Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic
Nevill Drury
1978
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Dr. Vollmer's Wörterbuch der mythologie aller völker
Wilhelm Vollmer
1874German
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Drevnerusskī͡͡ia skazanī͡͡ia o pti͡tsakh
Khr. M. Loparev
1896Russian
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Dschinnistan, oder auserlesene Feen- und Geistermährchen: Theils neu erfunden, theils neu ...
F. H. Einsiedel, A . J. Liebeskind
1810
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Du culte des cabires chez les anciens Irlandais
Adolphe Pictet
1824French
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Du polythéisme hellénique
Ménard, Louis
1863French
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Du roi Arthur et de la légende du Graal
Maurice Comte Fleury
1897French
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Edda
Adalbert Rudolf
1898German
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Edda Snorra Sturlusonar
Snorri Sturluson
1875Icelandic
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Edda is the book of religions of former Scandinavian inhabitants
1828Polish
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Eddalæren og dens oprindelse eller Nöjagtig fremstilling af de gamle nordboers digtninger og meninger om verdens, gudernes, aandernes og menneskenes tilblivelse, natur og skjæbne i udförlig sammenligning saavel med naturens store bog, som med grækers, persers, inders og flere gamle folks mythiske systemer og troesmeninger med indblandede historiske undersögelser over den gamle verdens mærkværdigste nationers herkomst og ældste forbindelser &c
Finnur Magnússon
1824Danish
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Eddastudien
Julius Hoffory
1889German
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Edipo e la mitologia comparata
Domenico Comparetti
1867Italian
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Een blik in het Javaansche volksleven
L. Th Mayer
1897Dutch
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Eine Reise durch das Reich des Aberglaubens
Otto Henne am Rhyn
1893German
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El folk-lore Filipino
Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino
1889Tagalog
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El folk-lore gallego en 1884-85
Emilia Pardo Bazán
1886Spanish
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Elsässisches Volksbüchlein: Kinderwelt und Volksleben, in Liedern, Sprüchen, Räthseln, Spielen ..
August Stöber
1859German
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Ensaios criticos
Zofimo Consiglieri Pedroso
1881Portuguese
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Ephemeridos belli Troiani libri sex recognovit Ferdinandus Meister
Dictys Cretensis, Ferdinand Otto Meister
1872Latin
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Epistolarum Heroïdum liber
Ovid
1825Italian
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Epistole Heroides Publii Ouidii Nasonis
Ovid
1536Latin