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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Mythiske bytosće łužiskich Serbow
Adolf Černý
1893
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Mythologie des Indous
Mme. Marie Elisabeth de Polier, Marie-Elisabeth de Polier
1809French
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Басни и сказки (Хемницер)
Ivan Khemnitser, Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov
1799Russian
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Растаманские сказки. Зелёная книжка (сборник)
Dmytro Haiduk
1999Russian
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Растаманские сказки. Серая книжка (сборник)
Dmytro Haiduk
1998Russian
Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
Jeremy Narby, Francis Huxley
2001
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A Handbook of Egyptian Religion
Adolf Erman
1907
A Poison Apple Book
Suzanne Nelson
2014
A short thing of Slavic mythology in general and, in particular, one of the folk games in Poland, a turonic, due to the matriculation of the same turon, located in the part of the article From the Past (Kielce, Pinczow and Chmielnik) in no. 15 time d. January 19, 1862 announced by Józef Łepkowski
Jan Bartłomiej Radwański
1862Polish
Aberglauben aus Masuren: mit einem Anhange, enthaltend: Masurische Sagen und Mährchen
Max Töppen
1867German
Animal Stories 2
Lari Don
1800
Baden evenings - Novels about fears and ghosts with the joining of Bajek and other humor magazines Józef Maxymilian hrabi from Tenczyn Ossoliński
Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński
1852Polish
Bajki
Jean de La Fontaine
1876Polish
Bajki i powiastki
Adam. Author Mickiewicz
1897Polish
Baśnie i powieści
Zygmunt Gloger
1898Polish
Belarusian people in Lithuanian Rus: matriculated in Slavic ethnography gathered in 1877-1891. T. 1, Faith, beliefs and superstitions of the people from the vicinity of Wołkowyska, Słonim, Lida and Sokółka
Michał Federowski
1897Polish
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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, and a Poem
William Hope Hodgson
1910
Danziger, Sagen
Eduard Ludwig Garbe
1872German
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Deserted Cities of the Heart
Lewis Shiner
1988
Dictionnaire abbrégé de la fable, pour l “intelligence des poètes, des tableaux et des statues dont les sujets sont tirez de l” histoire poètique
Pierre Chompre
1810French
Die Argonautensage und Verwandtes
Reinhold. Author Schröter
1899German
Die Völker des Erdbalss nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft, und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht. Bd. 1
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus
1845German
Die Völker des Erdbalss nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft, und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht. Bd. 2
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus
1847German
Die Völker des Erdbalss nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft, und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht. Bd. 2, Abt. 2, Amerikanische Völker und der Malanische Menschenstamm
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus
1846German