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
- Read free
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, With Sketches of the Irish Past
Lady Wilde
1888
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Angevin Britain and Scandinavia
Henry Goddard Leach
1921
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Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time
Clara Frances McIntyre
1920
Another seed
Gedalyahu Gʹ. Sṭrumzah
1984
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Arrow Music
Bryher
1922
- Read free
Art of Island Southeast Asia: The Fred and Rita Richman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Florina H Capistrano-Baker
1994
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Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle
E. Jane Burns
1985
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Arthurian Name Dictionary
Christopher W Bruce
2000
Atlantis
Angelos Geōrgiou Galanopoulos, Edward Bacon
1969
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Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies
K. Langloh Parker
1897
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Bibliography of Folk-Lore, 1905
Northcote Whitridge Thomas
1906
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Birch Bark Legends of Niagara, Founded on Traditions Among the Iroquois or Six Nations
Owahyah
1883
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Black Roadways: A Study of Jamaican Folk Life
Martha Warren Beckwith
1929
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Bram Stoker
William Hughes
1997
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Brother Albrecht's Secret Chamber: A Legend of the Ancient Moravian Sun Inn of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
James B Laux
1914
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Calendario Popular Para 1885
Luis Romero y Espinosa
1884Spanish
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Carnac: Légendes, Traditions, Coutumes et Contes du Pays
Zacharie Le Rouzic
1912French
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Catawba Texts
Frank Frank Gouldsmith Speck
1934
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Celtic Researches: On the Origin, Traditions and Language of the Ancient Briton, With Some Introductory Sketches on Primitive Society
Edward Davies
1804
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Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World
Martyn Hudson
2017
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Chambers's Book of Days
Robert Chambers
1879
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Chan Kom, a Maya Village
Robert Redfield, Alfonso Villa Rojas
1934
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Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror-Novelist
Willem Scholten
1933
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Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales
Richard Neuse
1991