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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Epistole eroiche di Ovidio Nasone
Ovid
1842Italian
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Eraclius
Otte German poet
1842German
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Esaias Tegnér's Frithiofs-Sage
Esaias Tegnér
1894German
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Essai historique et philosophique sur les principaux ridicules des differentes nations
Sébastien-Marie-Mathurin Gazon-d'Ourxingé
1766French
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Essai sur le mythe des Ribhavas
Fe lix Jean Baptiste Joseph Ne ve
1847French
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Essai sur les dieux protecteurs des héros grecs et troyens dans l'Iliade
Alexandre Louis J . Bertrand
1858French
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Essai sur les erreurs et les superstitions anciennes & modernes
Jean Louis Castilhon
1766French
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Essai sur les legendes pieuses du Moyen âge, ou, Examen de ce qu'elles renferment de merveilleux ...
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
1843French
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Essais orientaux
James Darmesteter
1883French
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Esthétique de la tradition
Emile Blémont
1890French
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Estudios araucanos
Rodolfo Lenz
1895Spanish
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Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche
Richard Andree
1878German
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Ethnogénie caucasienne
Alexandre César Moreau de Jonnès
1861French
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Ethnologische Forschungen und Sammlung von Material für Dieselben
Adolf Bastian
1871German
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Etude sur la flexion dans le voyage de S. Brandan, poème anglo-normand du 12e siècle
Knud Olai Brekke
1884French
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Etymologisch-symbolisch-mythologisches Real-Wörterbuch zum Handgebrauche für Bibelforscher, Archäologen und bildende Künstler
Friedrich pseud Nork
1843German
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Euripidis Phoenissae
Euripides, Reinhold Klotz, Nicolaus Wecklein
1857Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta
Euripides
1832Ancient Greek
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Evangelia apocrypha
Constantin von Tischendorf
1853Ancient Greek
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Evening entertainment by the fireplace with 3 steel plants and 23 woodcuts
1855Polish
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Examen comparativo entre los signos simbolicos de las teogonias y cosmogonias antiguas y los que existen en los manuscritos mexicanos publicados por Kingsborough y los altos relieves de una pared de Chichen-Itza
José M. Melgar y Serrano
1872Spanish
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Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis: accedunt notulae anglicae et questiones : in usum ..
Ovid
1839
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Eymenidy
Aeschylus
1862Czech
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Étude critique sur le texte de la vie latine de Sainte-Geneviève de Paris
Geneviève Saint, of Paris
1881French