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
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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Ancient symbol worship: influence of the phallic idea in the religions of antiquity [2 papers ...
Hodder Michael Westropp, C. Staniland Wake, Charles Staniland Wake Hodder Michael Westropp
1874
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Asmodeus: Or, Legends of New York. Being a Complete Exposé of the Mysteries ...
Harrison Gray Buchanan
1848
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Bidrag til en historisk-topografisk beskrivelse af Island
Kristian Kaalund, Kålund, Kr., Arnamagnæanske stiftelse
1877Danish
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Border tales around the camp fire, in the Rocky mountains
Edmund Bostwick Tuttle
1878
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Den danske krønike af Saxo Grammaticus oversat af Aders Sørensen Vedel trykt paa ny og tilligemed Vedels levnet af C. F. Wagener udg
Saxo Grammaticus, Adolph Engelbert Boye, Hennk i. e. Peter Henirk Boye, Israel Salomon Levin, Copenhagen Samfundet til den danske literaturs fremme, Carl Emil Secher, Anders Sørensen Vedel, Caspar Frederik Wegener
1851
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Dizionario pittoresco di ogni mitologia d'antichita, d'iconologia e delle favole del medio evo ...
Francesco Zanotto
1840Italian
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Fastnachtspiele aus dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert
Adelbert von Keller, Hans Folz, Pamphilus Gengenbach, Nicolaus Mercatoris, Rosenblüt, Hans, 15th cent, Theodericus Schermberg
1853German
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Idylls of Ireland
Samuel Kennedy Cowan
1896
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Instituciones poéticas
Santos Díez González, Joseph de Jouvency, Massieu, Guillaume, 1665-1722. Defense de la poësie, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection DLC, abbé Massieu
1793Spanish
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Jacobi Tollii Fortuita
Jacobus Tollius
1687Latin
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Kinder- und Hausmärchen aus der Schweiz
Otto Sutermeister
1873German
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La favola di Circe
Ridolfino Venuti
1758Italian
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Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted
John M.B Jones, John Jones
1797
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Nursery tales, traditions, and histories of the Zulus
Henry Bishop of Kaffraria Callaway, Henry Callaway, Folklore Society
1868
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Observations suggested by the cattle plague
H. Strickland Constable, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1866
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Remains of the early popular poetry of England
William Carew Hazlitt
1864
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Römische mythologie
Ludwig Preller
1858German
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Sea fables explained
Henry Lee
1883
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Stephani Nigri elega[n]tissime è greco author[um] subditor[um] tra[n]slationes
Stephanus Niger, Stephanus. Opus de nimia obsoniorum appetentia Niger, the Athenian Philostratus
1521Latin
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The romantic land of Hind
Charles Francis Mackenzie
1882
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Traditions, legends, superstitions, and sketches of Devonshire on the borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, illustrative of its manners, customs, history, antiquities, scenery, and natural history
Anna Eliza Bray, Mrs. Bray
1838
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A history of the heathen mythology
Tressan l'abbé de, H. North, M. l'abbé de Tressan
1806
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An analysis of the Egyptian mythology: to which is subjoined, a critical examination of the remains of Egyptian chronology
James Cowles Prichard
1819
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Bannú
Septimus Smet Thorburn
1876