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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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. 5,2, Das Zeitalter der unumschränkten Fürstenmacht und das Revolutionszeitalter
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1839German
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Europäische Sittengeschichte vom Ursprunge volksthümlicher Gestaltungen bis auf unsere Zeit. Theil 5., Abth. 1, Das Zeitalter des Kirchenstreits
Wilhelm Wachsmuth
1838German
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Examen critique de l'histoire des classes ouvrières et des classes bourgeoises de M. Granier de Cassagnai
Jean Pierre Rossignol
1839French
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Exposé de la religion des Druzes
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
1838French
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Exposé de quelques-uns des principaux articles de la théogonie des Brahmes
Jean A Dubois
1825NOT
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Ezopovy basni
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1815Russian
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F. W. Gleims sämmtliche Werke. 1
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
1819German
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F. W. Hackländer's Werke
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
1855German
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Fabelbüchlein
Josef Poetsch
1895German
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Fabellae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1600Ancient Greek
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Fabellae Aesopi Philosophi tam salis eruditionis pleniss. quam morib. optimis fingendis utilissimi
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1517Latin
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Fabellae Aesopicae Qvaedam Notiores
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1708Latin
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Fabellae Aesopicae Qvaedam Notiores, Et In Scholis Vsitatae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1565Latin
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Fabellae Aesopicae Qvaedam Notiores, Et In Scolis Vsitatae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1550Ancient Greek
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Fabellae Aesopicae quaedam notiores
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1688Latin
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Fabellae Aesopicae quaedam notiores, et in scholis usitatae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1546Latin
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Fabellae Aesopicae qvaedam notiores et in scolis vsitatae, partim excerptae de priori editione, partim nvnc primvm compositae
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1550Ancient Greek
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Fabellae quaedam notiores
ca. v6. Jh Aesopus
1545Latin
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Fabeln
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
1777German
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Fabeln
Friedrich Carl von Moser
1786German
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Fabeln
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
1853German
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Fabeln
Daniel Holtzmann
1783German
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Fabeln
August Gottlieb Meißner
1807German
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Fabeln
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
1803German