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
Slowanský národopis
Pavel Josef Safarik
1842Czech
Sławni ludzie i onych porównania
Plutarchus
1801Polish
Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
Chris Priestley
1809
- Read free
The Celestial Ship of the North
Emma Valentia Straiton
1927
- Read free
The House in the Wood, and Other Old Fairy Stories
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1909
The Wrath & the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn)
Renée Ahdieh
2016
Third Sannumetoya in 1850: Perhaps: New and wanna Ma-rahwa for roasting and oesthetics. Third Year-Rough
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
1850Estonian
Whatever After Boxset, Books 1-6 (Whatever After)
Sarah Mlynowski
2015
Willem Nawi ello-päwad
Peter August Friedrich von Mannteuffel
1839Estonian
Zabawy świąteczne dla ludu
Obrępalski
1851Polish
Ziewonja. Noworocznik
August Bielowski
1834Polish
Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Walter Crane, Edmund Evans
1875
Creature curiosities
Annette Makimo
1980
French legends, tales and fairy stories
Barbara Leonie Picard
1955
Jack the giant killer
Hugh Thomson
1898
- Read free
Life and death of Jason,
William Morris
1867
Pussy's road to ruin
Clara de Chatelain
1850
Tales of Ancient Troy
Όμηρος
1892
- Read free
The Denham tracts : a collection of folklore
Michael Aislabie Denham
1895
- Read free
The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Tobias Smollett, George Cruikshank
1832
The gold bug, The purloined letter, and other tales (Eleonora / Gold-Bug / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1898
- Read free
The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. By which you may know the weather for several days to come, and in some cases for months. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of the wind, rain, snow, &c. ... on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy
John Claridge
1827
Three golden oranges and other Spanish folk tales
Ralph Steele Boggs
1936
Tistou of the green thumbs
Maurice Druon
1958