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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Fables de la Fontaine
1864French
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Fabliaux et contes des poètes françois des XI, XII, XIII, XIVe et XVe siècles
Étienne Barbazan
1808French
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Faune populaire de la France
Eugène Rolland
1877French
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Faust dans l'histoire et dans la légende
Paul Ristelhuber
1863French
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Faust dans l'histoire et dans la légende: essai sur l'humanisme superstitieux du XVIe siècle et ..
Paul Ristelhuber
1863French
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Flora mythologica, oder Pfanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und R©œmer
Johann Heinrich Dierbach
1833German
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Flore populaire
Eugène Rolland
1896French
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Flore poétique ancienne
Jean Baptiste DuMolin
1856French
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Folk-lore de l'Ille-et-Vilaine
Adolphe Orain
1897French
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Folk-lore español
Antonio Machado y Alvarez
1883Spanish
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Folk-lore in Borneo: A Sketch
William Henry Furness
1899
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Folklore
Karl Knortz
1896German
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Folkloristische Streifz©ơge
Karl Knortz
1899German
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Folktales and society
N. L. Rice, William Hague, H. D. Ganse
1862
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Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der alten Völker- u. Mythengeschichte
Gottfried Muys
1856
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Fra en svunden tid: Sagn og optegnelser
Ole Andreas Øverland
1888Norwegian
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schellings sämmtliche Werke
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1856German
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Færøske folkesagn og æventyr udg. for Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk literatur
Jakob Jakobsen
1898Danish
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Föreläsningar i Finsk mytologi
M. Alexander Castrén
1853Finnish
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Galerie mythologique: recueil de monuments pour servir à l'étude de la mythologie, de l'histoire ..
A. L. Millin
1811French
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Gargantua dans les traditions populaires
Paul Sébillot
1883French
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Gemmae selectae antiquae e museo Jacobi de Wilde
Jacob de Wilde
1707Latin
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Germanische Mythologie
Elard Hugo Meyer
1891German
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Gesammelte akademische Abhandlungen und kleine Schriften: Nebst einem der königlichen Akademie ..
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard
1866German