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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Die Sagen vom Lebensbaum und Lebenswasser: Altorientalische Mythen
Aug. Wünsche
1905German
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Die Stundenwachen in den Osirismysterien, Nach den Inschriften von Dendera, Edfu und Philae
Hermann Junker
1910German
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Dog and Duck
Arthur Machen
1924
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Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes
Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project
1940
- Read free
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, With Other Norwegian Folk Tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
1912
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Ein Märchen von der Thiersprache, Quelle und Verbreitung
Theodor Benfey
1864German
Encounters with the invisible
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Anne de Sales
2024
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Endimion, the Man in the Moone
John Lyly
1591
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Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken
Frank Frank Stockton Dobbins
1883
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Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide
Stephanie A Hall
1995
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Etruscan Magic and Occult Remedies
Charles Godfrey Leland
1963
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Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics
Michael Owen Jones
1987
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Fairy Circles: Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins
Villamaria
1877
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Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All
Edgar Dubs Shimer
1920
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Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies
Jan M Ziolkowski
2007
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Fairy Tales From the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou
Nils Gabriel Djurklou
1901
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Fairy Tales for Little People
Christine Catrevas
1927
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Fairy Tales of All Nations: Famous Stories from the English, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Bohemian, Japanese and Other Sources
William Ellis Scull
1910
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Fairy Tales of Modern Greece
Theodore Gianakoulis, Georgia Harter MacPherson
1930
Fairy tales from Brentano
Clemens Brentano
1885
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False Gods: or, The Idol Worship of the World
Frank Frank Stockton Dobbins
1881
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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods; With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts
William William Thomas Cox
1910
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Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form
Katherine Saunders Nash
2014
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Fiabe e Canzoni Popolari del Contado di Maglie in Terra d'Otranto
Pietro Pellizzari
1881Italian