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
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
Gold for the Gay Masters
Denise Robins, Harriet Gray
1954
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
2015
Goldilocks and the three bears
Bernadette Watts
1985
Great Russian Animal Tales
Adolph Gerber
1891
Greek mythology
John Pinsent
1969
Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
2012
Hammered
Kevin Hearne
2011
Harry the troll
Judith Lechner
2002
Henry Fielding's theory of the comic prose epic
Ethel Margaret Thornbury
1931
Heroes
Stephen Fry
2018
- Read free
Heroes of chivalry and romance
Alfred John Church
1898
Historia destructionis Troiae
Guido delle Colonne, Hugo Buchthal, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana
1300
Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España
Bernardino de Sahagún
1829
Historias del vampiro griego
Álvaro García Marín
2017
- Read free
Historical and Traditional Sketches of Highland Families and of the Highlands
John Maclean, Georgia
1864
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
2016
Household Stories From The Collection Of The Brothers Grimm
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1896
How to Be Eaten
Maria Adelmann
2022
Hullabaloo in the guava orchard
Kiran Desai, Diwano SCP, Armand Carabén van der Meer
1998
Hunted
Kevin Hearne
2011
Hōjōki
Chōmei Kamo, Nicola Liscutin, Michael Hofmann, Matthew Stavros, Reginald Jackson
1892
I Shudder at Your Touch
Stephen King, Michele B. Slung, Valerie Martin, Haydn Middleton, Ruth Rendell, T. L. Parkinson, Ronald Duncan, Michael Blumlein, May Sinclair, Patrick McGrath, Robert G. Ackman, Carolyn Banks, Robert Smythe Hichens, Harriet Zinnes, R. Murray Gilchrist, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Fowler, Eric P. McCormack, Hugh B. Cave, Thomas M. Disch, Angela Carter, Stephen R. Donaldson, Clive Barker, Michelle Slung
1991
Idomeneo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1870
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Illustrative anecdotes of the animal kingdom
Samuel G. Goodrich
1845