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
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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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Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible
Maria Fleischhack, Elmar Schenkel
2016
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A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients
Edward Tyson, Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
1894
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, David Brian
1871
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Cornish feasts and folk-lore
Margaret Ann Courtney
1890
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Curiosities of superstition, and sketches of some unrevealed religions
William Henry Davenport Adams
1882
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Current superstitions
Fanny Dickerson Bergen, William Wells Newell, Fanny Fanny Dickerson Bergen, Henry Mills Alden
1895
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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
William Butler Yeats
1888
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Folk lore; or, superstitious beliefs in the west of Scotland within this century
James Napier
1879
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Folk-tales of Bengal
Lal Behari Day, Warwick Goble
1883
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Hidden symbolism of alchemy and the occult arts
Herbert Silberer, Smith Ely Jelliffe
1917
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Japanese fairy world
William Elliot Griffis, Ozawa
1880
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Kaffir folk-lore
George McCall Theal
1882
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Lancashire folk-lore
John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson
1867
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Lays and legends of the English lake country
John Pagen White, William. sgn Furness, Wordsworth Collection
1873
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Le imagini de gli dei de gli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari, Cesare Malfatti, Bolognino Zaltieri, Filippo Ferroverde, Lorenzo Pignoria, Antoine Du Verdier, Paulus Hachenberg
1599Italian
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Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains
Maria Elise Turner Lauder, Toofie Lauder, Maria Elise T.T Lauder
1881
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Mediaeval tales
Henry Morley
1884
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Mythical monsters
Charles Gould
1886
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Myths and folk-tales of the Russians, western Slavs, and the Magyars
Jeremiah Curtin
1890
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Myths of northern lands
Hélène Adeline Guerber
1895
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Navaho legends
Washington Matthews
1897
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Old-fashioned fairy tales
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alfred Walter Bayes, Gordon Browne
1800
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Strange survivals
Sabine Baring-Gould
1892
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Tales and legends of the English lakes
Wilson Armistead, Wordsworth Collection
1891