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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Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists
Brian Houghton Hodgson
1841
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Indian legends of Minnesota
1893
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Introduction à l'Histoire du Buddisme Indien. 1
Eugène Burnouf
1844
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
1895
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Katalog der Buch- und Antiquariats-Handlung von Theodor Ackermann, Promenadeplatz 10 in München. 213, Mythologie, Volkssagen
Theodor Ackermann
1888
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Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah
Bīdpāʼi, Labīd ibn Rabīʻah, Ḥusain ibn Aḥmad Zūzanī, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
1816Arabic
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Lautuntersuchungen zu Osbern Bokenam's Legenden
Osbern Bokenam
1883
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Lectures on female prostitution: its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy
Ralph Wardlaw
1842
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Legends of ancient China
1800
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Love for Love
William Congreve
1791
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Miscellanies
William Makepeace Thackeray
1851
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Monsieur le Vent et Madame la Pluie
Paul de Musset
1864
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Mythological fables
1837
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Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
1857French
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Novels and tales
Charles Dickens
1859
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On the plantation
Joel Chandler Harris
1892
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Owd Bob
Alfred Ollivant, Adrian Bradbury
1898
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Philosophical Rhapsodies
Richard Joseph Sulivan
1784
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Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, confess'd, and fully proved on the Surey dissenters, from the second letter of an apostate friend, to Zach. Taylor
Zachary Taylor
1699
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Principia: A series of Essays on the Principles of Evil manifesting themselves in these last times in Religion, Philosophy and Politics
S. R Bosanquet
1843
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Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies
John Robison
1798
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Remarks on the nature of Muhammadanism
Carl G Pfander
1840
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Researches on the tenets and doctrines of Yeynes and Boodhists
William Francklin
1827
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Rumpelstiltskin
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, George R. Halkett, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], B. Watts
1882