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
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The Mythology of All Races: Latin-American
Hartley Burr Alexander, Mardiros H Ananikian, Alice Werner
1916
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The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story
Helen Ashe Hays
1879
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The child and childhood in folk-thought
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
1895
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Triplanetary
E E Doc Smith, Edward Elmer Smith
1934
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Friday Night: A Selection of Tales Illustrating Hebrew Life
Isaac S. Isaacs
1870
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La canc̈un de Saint Alexis
Alexius Saint, Saint. Legend Alexius
1882FRO
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Legends of the monastic orders
Anna Jameson, Mrs. Jameson
1852
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Russian fairy tales
William Ralston Shedden Ralston
1887
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The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history
Thomas Carnan
1783
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The poetical language of flowers
Thomas Miller
1847
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Treasures from Fairy land
Rossiter W Raymond, Rossiter Rossiter Worthington Raymond
1879
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Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius
1810Ancient Greek
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Euripidis Tragoediae
Euripides
1823Ancient Greek
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Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique depuis leur origine jusqu'à leur complète constitution
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
1857French
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Indian legends of Saratoga and of the upper Hudson Valley
Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester
1884
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Le imagini dei degli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1608Italian
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Pigmalion
Francisco Durán
1792Spanish
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The Mideẃiwin
Walter James Hoffman
1891
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The legends of the Old Testament
Thomas Lumisden Strange
1874
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A journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again
Robert Clayton
1753
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Legends of the Rhine
Hélène Adeline Guerber
1895
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Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects
William Stukeley
1763
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Pantheum mythicum
François Pomey, Andrew Tooke
1694
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Passos dos Lusíadas, estudados à luz da mitolojía e do orientalismo
Guilherme de Vasconcellos-Abreu, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisbon International Congress of Orientalists. 10th
1892Portuguese