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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Thoughts on the cherubimical mystery, or, An attempt to prove that the cherubims were emblems of salvation by the blood of Jesus
James Relly, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1780
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Benoît de Sainte-More et Le roman de Troie
Aristide Joly
1870French
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Ifigenia
Lodovico Dolce
1597Italian
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Last fairy tales
Édouard Laboulaye
1884
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Nouveau recueil de contes, dits, fabliaux
Achille Jubinal
1839French
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O povo portuguez nos seus costumes, crenças e tradições
Teófilo Braga
1885Portuguese
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Oberrheinisches Sagenbuch
August Stöber
1842German
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Origine de la maçonnerie adonhiramite
Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection DLC
1787French
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Studien zur germanischen Sagengeschichte
Wolfgang Golther
1888German
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The Natural Genesis
Gerald Massey
1883
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The frog prince
Walter Crane, Elizabeth d'Hauteville Kean
1874
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Études contemporaines sur l'Allemagne et les pays slaves
Édouard Laboulaye
1865French
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Andromeda und Perseus
Wolfgang von Kempelen, Benedikt Dominik Anton Cremeri, Anton Zimmermann
1780German
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Antiquitates celto-scandicæ
James Johnstone, August Friderich Stein
1786Danish
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Della spedizione degli argonauti in Colco
Gian Rinaldo Carli, Giambattista Recurti
1745Italian
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Genealogiae Joannis Boccatii
Giovanni Boccaccio, Boneto Locatelli, Ottaviano Scotto, Stadtbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
1494Latin
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Islendzk æventyri
Hugo Gering, Köhler, Reinhold
1882German
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La mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire
Banier, Banier M. l'abbé, M. l'abbAntoine Banier, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana
1738French
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Symbolica aegyptiorvm sapientia
Nicolas Caussin
1633Latin
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Kleine Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie, Sitten- und Heimathskunde in Sagen und Gebräuchen aus ..
August Witzschel
1866German
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Meletē epi tou viou tōn neōterōn Hellēnōn
Nikolaos G. Politēs
1871Greek
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Mythographische Untersuchungen über griechische Sternsagen
Albert Rehm
1896German
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Popular rhymes of Scotland
Robert Chambers
1780
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... Beacon lights of history
John Lord
1883