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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Sofokleova Antigona, v metrickém prekladu od dra
Sophocles
1862Czech
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Sofokleuv Edip král
Sophocles
1856Czech
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Sonnencult der Indogermanen(indoeuropäer) insbesondere der Indoteutonen: Aus einhundertfünf und ..
Heinrich Böttger
1890German
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Sophoclis Trachiniae
Sophocles
1877Ancient Greek
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Sophokles' Antigone metrisk oversat
Travers Twiss, Black book of the Admiralty
1871
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Sophokles, Philoktetes
Sophocles
1863German
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Sravnitelʹno-kriticheskīi͡a nabli͡udenīi͡a nad sloevym sostavom narodnago russkago ėposa
Orest Fedorovich Miller
1869Russian
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Staročeské obyčeje a pověry pivovarské
Čeněk Zíbrt
1896Czech
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Stimmen vom Ganges: Eine Sammlung indischer sagen
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
1877German
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Storia delle novelline popolari
Angelo De Gubernatis
1883Italian
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Studia Sophoclea
Floris Hendrick Bos
1898Latin
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Studien über das Volksrätsel ..
Robert Petsch
1898German
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Sur les religions de la Lusitanie
J. Leite de Vasconcellos
1892French
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Svenska folkböcker: Sagor, legender och äfventyr, efter äldre upplagor och andra källor utgifne ..
Per Olof Bäckström
1845Swedish
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Symbolik und Mythologie: Oder die Naturreligion des Alerthums
Ferdinand Christian Baur
1824German
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Systema dos mythos religiosos
J. P. Oliveira Martins
1882Portuguese
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Sämtliche Werke
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
1856German
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Tegnérs Frithjofs-sage
Esaias Tegnér
1860German
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Tesoro delle gioie
Giovanni Battista Ardemanio
1676Italian
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Texte zur assyrisch-babylonischen Religion
Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen, Eberhard Schrader
1889German
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Matthew Bowman, Matthew Burton Bowman
2023
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: the Greek text
Aeschylus
1848
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The International folk-lore congress of the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 ...
Helen Wheeler Bassett, Frederick Starr
1898
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The Jātaka-mālā: or, Bodhisattvāvadāna-mālā
Āryaśūra
1891Sanskrit