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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The L̀ibation-bearers' of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
1889Ancient Greek
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The Odyssey of Homer: Done Into English Verse
Όμηρος
1887
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The Oedipus tyrannus
Sophocles
1885Ancient Greek
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The Padmapurana
Vishwanath Narayan Mandlik
1893Sanskrit
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The Phæacian episode of the Odyssey as comprised in the sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh and thirteenth books
Όμηρος
1880Ancient Greek
The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism
Anne Kalvig
2016
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga
Samuel Turvey, Samuel T. Turvey
2024
The Witchcraft Sourcebook
Brian P. Levack, Brian P. Levacκ
2015
The art of divination in the ancient Near East
Stefan M. Maul, Brian McNeil, Alexander Johannes Edmonds
2018
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The critical period of American history, 1783-1789
John Fiske
1841GMH
The great sea-serpent
A. C. Oudemans
1892
The vampire
Nick Groom
2018
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Theogonia
Hesiod
1843Latin
Three books of occult philosophy..
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Donald Tyson, James Freake
1651
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Thrymsqviden
August Bournonville
1868Danish
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Thuringer Sagenbuch
Ludwig Bechftein
1858German
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To demotikon asma peri tou nekrou adelphou
Nikolaos G. Politēs
1885AFR
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Tradiciones españolas
Antonio Alcalde y Valladares
1883Spanish
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Tradiciones populares
Teófilo Rodríguez
1885Spanish
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Tradições populares de Portugal
José Leite de Vasconcellos Pereira de Mello
1882Portuguese
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Traditions et superstitions de la Haute-Bretagne
Paul Sébillot
1882French
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Traditions indiennes du Canada Nord-ouest: textes originaux & traduction littérale
Émile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph Petitot
1888CRE
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Traditions populaires du Rhin: de la forêt-noire, de la vallée du nècre, de la moselle et du taunus
Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber
1831French
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Traditions t©♭ratologiques, ou r©♭cits de l'antiquit©♭ et du moyen ©Øge en Occident sur quelques points de la fable du merveilleux, et de l'histoire naturelle
Jules Berger de Xivrey
1836French