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
- Read free
Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte und Mythologie der vorzüglichsten Völker des Alterthums: Nach ..
Karl Eckermann
1848German
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Les Polynésiens: leur origine, leurs migrations, leur langage
Pierre Adolphe Lesson
1880French
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Les cent nouvelles nouvelles, dites les cent nouvelles du roi Louis XI
Anonymous
1858French
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Les chants et les contes des Ba-Ronga de la baie de Delagoa
Henri Alexandre Junod
1897French
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Les contes moralisés de Nicole Bozon, frère mineur
Nicole Bozon
1889French
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Les contes orientaux dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge
Gaston Paris
1875French
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Les contes populaires de l'Égypte ancienne
Gaston Maspero
1882French
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Les merveilles divines dans les saints du Moyen Âge
Carlo Gregorio Rosignoli
1867French
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Les origines de l'Église d'Édesse et la légende d'Abgar
J. Tixeront
1888French
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Les religions du Mexique, de l'Amérique centrale et du Pérou
Albert Réville
1885French
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Les romans de la table ronde
Paulin Paris
1868French
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Les travaux publics et les mines dans les traditions et les superstitions de tous les pays: les ..
Paul Sébillot
1894French
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Letture sopra la mitologia vedica fatte dal prof. Angelo de Gubernatis ..
Angelo De Gubernatis
1874Italian
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Letture sopra la mitologia vedica fatte dal prof. Angelo de Guvernatis
Angelo De Gubernatis
1874
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Leven van Sinte Lutgart
Willem van Afflighem
1899Dutch
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Leyendas, históricas mexicanos
Heriberto Frías
1899Spanish
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Légendes américaines
José Güell y Renté
1861French
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Liola ou legende indienne
M.J. Marsile
1893French
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Literarische Einleitung in die nordische Mythologie
Karl Friedrich Koeppen
1837German
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Literatura Kulturne -historicka a ethnograficka
C ene k Zi brt
1898Czech
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Littérature orale de la Basse-Normandie
Jean François Bonaventure Fleury
1883French
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Littérature orale de la Haute-Bretagne ..
Paul Sébillot
1881French
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Littérature orale de la Picardie
Henry Carnoy
1883French
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Livländisches sagenbuch
Friedrich Bienemann
1897German