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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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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Mythologie iconographique
Ch Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
1878French
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Mythologie pittoresque
Joseph Odolant-Desnos
1849French
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Mythologische Gallerie: Eine Sammlung von mehr als 750 antiken Denkmälern, Statuen ..
A. L. Millin
1848German
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Mythologische Parallelen...
Johann Georg Hahn
1859German
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Mythologische forschungen und sammlungen
Wolfgang Menzel
1842German
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Mythologische studien von Adalbert Kuhn
Adalbert Kuhn
1886German
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Mythologus
Philipp Karl Buttmann
1828German
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Märchen aus Mallorca
Ludwig Salvator Archduke of Austria
1896German
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Mélusine
Henri Gaidoz
1878French
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Narodnyia piesni Galitskoĭ i Ugorskoĭ Rusi
Яків Головацький
1878Ukrainian
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Narratio eorum quae contigerunt Apollonio Tyrio
Marcus Welser
1595Latin
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Nausikaa
Όμηρος
1899French
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Neueröffnetes wundersames Arzenei-Kästlein
William Marshall
1894German
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Niedersächsische sagen und Märchen: Aus dem Munde des Volkes gesammelt und mit Anmerkungen und ..
Georg Schambach
1855German
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Nipon o daï itsi ran
Isaac Titsingh, Julius von Klaproth
1834French
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Niz srpskih pripovijedaka: većinom o narodnom suđenju po Boki, Crnoj Gori i Hercegovini
Vuk Vrčević
1881Serbian
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Nordens Mythologi; eller, Sindbilled-Sprog historisk- poetisk unviklet og oplyst. 2, omarb. Udg
Nikolai Frederik S . Grundtvig
1832Danish
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Nordens mythologi eller sindbilled-sprog
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig
1832Danish
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Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden
Wilhelm Wägner, Jakob Nover
1882
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Nordische Heldenromane
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1814German
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Nordiskt sago-bibliothek, eller, Mythiska och romantiska forntids-sagor
Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd
1834Swedish
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Norske huldre-eventyr og folkesagn
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1859Norwegian
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Notes pour servir à l'étude des traditions
François Daleau
1889French
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Nouveau recueil de légendes et d'histoires
Ami de la jeunesse
1885French