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
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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
- Read free
Select Fables of Esop
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1761
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Sir Thomas More: or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Robert Southey
1831
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Stories from Homer
Alfred John Church
1878
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Stories of Greek gods, heroes, and men
Caroline Hirst Harding
1897
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Stories of old Greece
Emma M. Firth
1894
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Sundays in Yoho
Mary Helen Campbell
1884
- Read free
Tales of Languedoc
Samuel Jacques Brun
1896
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Tales of the Crusaders
Walter Scott
1825
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The Bee people
Margaret Warner Morley
1899
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The Boy's King Arthur
Sidney Lanier, Thomas Malory
1880
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The Catskill fairies
Alfred Fredericks, Virginia Virginia Wales Johnson
1875
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The Fall of the House of Usher, and Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Rhys
1889
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The Field of Clover
Laurence Houseman
1898
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The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself
John Carrington, Charlwood Lawton
1698
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The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself
John Carrington, Charlwood Lawton
1698
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
1800
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The Nine Worlds
Mary E. Litchfield
1890
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The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq.. 94, Tales of the crusaders ; Vol. 4, The talisman ; Vol. 1
Walter Scott
1826
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq.. 95, Tales of the crusaders ; Vol. 5, The talisman ; Vol. 2
Walter Scott
1826
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq.. 96, Tales of the crusaders ; Vol. 6, The talisman ; Vol. 3
Walter Scott
1826
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The comedies of Terence
Publius Terentius Afer
1898
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The counting-out rhymes of children
Henry Carrington Bolton
1888
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The dawn of history
1879