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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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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In the Pale: Stories and Legends of the Russian Jews
Iliowizi Henry
1897
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Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan (1841) Stephens
Victorian Vault
1841
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Stephens
Victorian Vault
1843
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Legend Lays of Ireland
John O'Hanlon
1870
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Legends Of Mexico (1847) George Lippard
Victorian Vault
1847
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Legends of the Saints. By M.F.S. [i.e. Mary Seamer, afterwards Seymour.]
m. f S., Mary Seymour
1876
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Legends of the seven capital sins
Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy
1851
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Les furies
Karl August Böttiger, Théophile Frédéric Winckler, Jacques-Auguste Delalain, Pierre Alexandre Tardieu, Winckler, Théophile Frédéric, 1771-1807, translator
1802French
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
1789
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Proverbes du pays de Béarn
Vastin Lespy
1876French
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Reynard The Fox; 1855
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1855
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Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Enrique Santos Marinas, Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
2023
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Seinte Marherete the meiden ant martyr, in Old English First ed. from the skin books in 1862
Thomas Oswald Cockayne
1866
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Shahnameh The Persian Book Of Kings
Ferdowsi
1010
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Sippurim
Wolf Pascheles, Jakob Wolf Pascheles
1845German
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Specimens of antient sculpture
John Samuel Agar, Richard Payne Knight, Society of Dilettanti
1809
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Sun Pictures (1859) by Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt
1859
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Tales of the Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
1874
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The Abhijñānaśākuntalam of Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa
1789
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The Doctor: A Medical and Philosophical Penny Magazine — No. 135 — October 29, 1834
The Proprietors of The Doctor
1834
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The Every-Day Book […] and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times, &c &c by William Hone [Volume III]
William Hone; published by William Pegg & Company
1827
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The Headless Horseman
Thomas Mayne Reid
1845
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The Historical Magazine, and Notes & Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America [Extra Number] (November, 1867)
Henry B. Dawson
1867
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The History of a Slave (1889) by H. H. Johnston
H. H. Johnston
1889