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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An essay on the weather; with remarks on the shepherd of Banbury's rules for judging of it's [!] changes; and directions for preserving lives and buildings from the fatal effects of lightening. Intended chiefly for the use of husbandmen
John Mills
1773
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Asgard and the Norse heroes
Katharine F. Boult
1800
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At the mountains of madness
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Howard V Brown
Date unknown
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Demonologia; or, natural knowledge revealed
F. J. S
1833
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Greek and Roman mythology & heroic legend
Hermann Steuding
1800
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Hercules piochymicus
Pierre-Jean Fabre
1634Latin
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In quest of the Holy Grail
Sebastian Evans
1898
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Ipermestra
Antonio Salvi, Francesco Libretto for: Feo, Alessandro Mauri, Sarrò, Antonio, choreographer
1728Italian
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La rappresentatione della fauola d'Orfeo
Angelo Poliziano
1550Italian
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Legends and records of the Church and the empire
Aubrey De Vere
1887
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Legends of the Afghan countries, in verse
Charles Masson
1848
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Legends of the Rhine and of the Low Countries
Thomas Colley Grattan
1832
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Observations on popular antiquities, including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares
John Brand
1810
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Pictures and legends from Normandy and Brittany
Thomas Robert Macquoid, Katherine Sarah Macquoid, Katharine Katharine Sarah Macquoid
1879
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Shadow land, or, The seer
Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
1852
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Sketches of the mythology and customs of the Hindoos
George Forster
1785
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Superstition and science
Samuel Roffey Maitland
1855
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Swenska folkets sago-häfder: eller fäderneslandets historia, sådan hon lefwat och till en del ..
Arvid August Afzelius
1839Swedish
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The Katha sari t sa gara
Somadeva Bhat Đt Đa, Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, 11th cent, Charles Henry Tawney
1880
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The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Frederick Knight Hunt
1845
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The adventures of Whittington and his cat
1847
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The chicken market and other fairy tales
Henry Morley, Charles Charles Henry Bennett
1800
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The folk-lore of plants
T. F. Thiselton Dyer
1889
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The hermit of Siskiyou
L. W. Musick, L. W. [from old catalog] Musick
1896