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
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Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, William Peterfield Trent
1898
Political myth and epic
Gilbert Morris Cuthbertson
1963
Popular culture in early modern Europe
Peter Burke
1899
Prime Evil
Douglas. Winter, Douglas E. Winter, Stephen King, Paul Hazel, Dennis Etchison, Clive Barker, Thomas Tessier, M. John Harrison, David Morrell, Peter Straub, Charles L. Grant, Thomas Ligotti, Ramsey Campbell, Whitley Strieber, Jack Cady, Cover Art
1988
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Princess Belle-Etoile
Walter Crane
1875
Problems of the feminine in fairytales
Marie-Louise von Franz
1972
Psyche Or The Legend Of Love
Mary Tighe
1843
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Queer little people
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1867
Quill and cross in the borderlands
Anna M Nogar
2018
Radetzkymarsch
Joseph Roth
1932
Ram - Scion of Ikshvaku
Amish Tripathi
2015
Rapunzel
Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1960
Recueil des histoires de Troie
Raoul Lefèvre
1477
Rich Man, Poor Man
Irwin Shaw
1970
Roman mythology
Stewart Perowne
1898
Savitri
Aurobindo Ghose
1950
Scary!
Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Leon Garfield, Isaac Asimov, Zenna Henderson, Roald Dahl, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch
1998
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Scenes In The Life Of Saint Peter
Hogan & Thompson
1850
Scilly and its legends
H. J. Whitfeld
1852
Season of Storms
Andrzej Sapkowski
2013
Seasons of the heart
Cynthia Freeman
1986
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Selected Tales of the genii
Charles Sir Morell
1861
Serena & Caine
Nora Roberts
1998
Seven Steps to Heaven
Fred Khumalo
2007