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
Flowers from a Persian Garden, and Other Papers
William Alexander Clouston
1890
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Folk-lore in Borneo
William Henry Furness
1899
- Read free
Gesta Romanorum or, Entertaining stories
Charles Swan, Thomas Wright
1871
- Read free
Highland legends
Thomas Dick Lauder
1880
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Histoire de la civilisation morale et religieuse des Grecs
Petrus van Limburg Brouwer
1833French
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Historical tales and legends of the Highlands
Alexander Mackenzie
1878
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Homer's Odyssey
Denton Jaques Snider
1895
- Read free
Indian legends of Minnesota
Cordenio A. Mrs Severance, Cordenio A. Severance
1893
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Legends of the holy rood
Richard Morris
1871
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Legends of the lintel and the ley
Walter Cooper Dendy
1863
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Letters on the laws of man's nature and development
Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau
1851
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Medea
Franz Grillparzer
1867
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Myth-land
F. Edward Hulme
1886
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Nether Lochaber
Alexander F.S.A. Stewart, Alexander Stewart
1883
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Observations on popular antiquities, chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies and superstitions
John Brand, Henry Ellis
1813
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One hundred merrie and delightsome stories
Robert B. Douglas, Robert Robert Bruce Douglas, Antoine de La Sale, Léon Lebèque
1899
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Ophiolatreia
Edward Sellon
1889
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Phallic miscellanies
Hargrave Jennings
1891
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Popular traditions of Lancashire
John Roby
1843
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Puss in boots
Charles Perrault
1864
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Reynard the fox in South Africa
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
1864
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Russian fairy tales from the Skazki of Polevoĭ
Petr Polevoi, Charles Charles March Gere, R. Nisbet Bain
1893
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Santal folk tales
A. of the Santal mission Campbell, Andrew Campbell
1891
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Shinto (the way of the gods)
William George Aston
1905