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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Indogermanische Mythen
Elard Hugo Meyer
1883German
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Indogermanischer Volksglaube
F. L. W. Schwartz, Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz
1885German
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Introduction à l'histoire du buddhisme indien
Eugène Burnouf
1844French
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Iphigénie en Aulide
Jean Racine
1817French
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Irische Texte
Whitley Stokes, Ernst Windisch
1884Irish
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Irmin, seine Saule, seine Strasse und sein Wagen: Einladung zu Vorlesungen ..
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1817German
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Iscrizioni picene che esistono in diversi luoghi di Roma dal MDCCLX sino ai giorni nostri
Gaetano Frascarelli
1868Italian
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Isifile
1693Italian
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Iulianos der Abtruennige
Georg Hoffmann
1880Syriac
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Jahresbericht .. in den vereinsjahren 1897 ...
Verein fu r sa chasische volkskunde
1899German
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Jason's quest
Daniel Orzo Smith Lowell
1893
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Juicio sobre lo que sirvio de base a las primeras teogonías traducción del manuscrito mayo perteneciente al Señor Miró
J. M. Melgar y Serrano
1873Spanish
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Khli︠e︡b v obri︠a︡dakh i pi︠e︡sni︠a︡kh
N. F. Sumt︠s︡ov
1885Russian
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Kleine Mythologie der Griechen und Römer: Unter steter Hinweisung auf die künstlerische ..
Otto Seemann
1874German
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Kleine Schriften zur Volks- und Sprachkunde
Ludwig Tobler
1897German
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Kleinere Schriften
Jacob Grimm, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1864German
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Kleinere Schriften. 8 Bde. [in 5].
Jacob Grimm
1884German
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Klosteret i Petschenga: skildringer fra russisk Lapland (Efter historiske ..
Jens Andreas Friis
1884Norwegian
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Klänge vom Jordan
M. Nordmann
1872German
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Kritische Beiträge zu Jacques Milet's Drama La Destruction de Troye la Grant
Gustav Häpke
1897German
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Kulturgeschichtliche Studien
Johannes Blochwitz
1882German
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Kypros
Wilhelm H. Engel
1841German
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Kyrene, eine altgriechische Göttin
Franz Studniczka
1890German
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L' évolution d'un mythe
Charles Renel
1896French