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
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- 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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Bozhestva drevnikh slavi͡an
Famint͡syn, Al. S, Famint͡syn, Al. Aleksandr Sergi͡eevich
1884Russian
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Contes albanais
Auguste Dozon
1881French
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Fabliaux ou contes
Legrand cit
1781French
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Fastnachtspiele aus dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert: Nachlese
Adelbert von Keller
1858German
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La pace fra la virtù, e la bellezza
Pietro Metastasio, Empress of Austria Maria Theresa, Libretto for: Reutter, Georg, 1708-1772. Pace fra la virtù, e la bellezza
1738Italian
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Le cabinet des fées
Charles-Joseph Mayer, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville Aulnoy, Louise de Bossigny Auneuil, Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps, Bidpai, Denis-Dominique. translator Cardonne, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Levis Caylus, Jacques. translator Cazotte, Ahmed Misri Chaikh Zadeh, Denis. translator Chavis, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Charles Pinot Duclos, Marie Antoinette Fagnan, François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, Antoine. translator Galland, Thomas Simon Gueulette, Antoine Hamilton, Louise Cavalier L'Eveque, Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier De Villandon, Joseph de La Porte, Françoise Duché de Vancy Le Marchand, Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Catherine Cailleau Lintot, Loqman, Lubert, Clément Pierre Marillier, Charles Sir Morell, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau Murat, Augustin Nadal, Charles Perrault, Jean de Prechac, François 1653-1713). translator Pétis de La Croix, Jean-Baptiste-René. translator Robinet, Ussieux. translator, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Christophe Martin Wieland
1785French
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Michoacán
Eduardo Ruiz
1891Spanish
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The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde, Wallace Goldsmith, Lisbeth Zwerger
1887
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The history of Aladdin, or, the wonderful lamp
Charles Farley, Edward Dunigan
1840
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The rose and the ring
William Makepeace Thackeray
1854
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Wild sports of the west, vol. 1; 1833
W. H. Maxwell
1833
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Wild sports of the west, vol. 2; 1833
W. H. Maxwell
1833
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Der Aberglaube des Mittelalters und der nächstfolgenden Jahrhunderte
Karl Remigius Meyer
1884German
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Galerie mythologique
Aubin Louis Millin
1811French
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Griechische und albanesische Märchen
Johann Georg von Hahn
1864German
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Hugues Capet, chanson de geste
Adélaïde Édouard Le Lièvre marquis de La Grange, Adélaïde Édouard Le Lièvre La Grange
1864French
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Katha sarit sagara: Die märchensammlung des Sri Somadeva Bhatta aus Kaschmir ... Sanskrit und ...
Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Hermann Brockhaus, Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, active 11th century
1839German
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Materīaly dli︠a︡ izuchenīi︠a︡ narodnoĭ slovesnosti
I. A. Khudi︠a︡kov, Khudi͡akov, Ivan Aleksandrovich
1863Russian
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Oreste
Jean Marie Janin called Mély-Janin
1821French
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Poetisches Lexicon oder nützlicher und brauchbarer Vorrath von allerhand poetischen Redens-Arten, Beywörtern, Beschreibungen, scharfsinnigen Gedancken und Ausdrückungen, nebst einer kurtzen Erklärung der mythologischen Nahmen, aus den besten und neuesten deutschen Dichtern zusammen getragen, und der studirenden Jugend zum bequemen Gebrauch mit einer Anweisung zur reinen und wahren deutschen Dicht-Kunst ans Licht gestellet
Johann Georg Hamann
1737German
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Tableaux du temple des Muses; tirez du cabinet de feu Mr. Faverau, conseiller du roy en sa cour des Aydes & grauez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistr s de son temps pour representer les vertus et les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité
Michel de Marolles, Jacques Favereau
1655French
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The King of Ireland's Son
Padraic Colum, Gerard Doyle Dr
1916
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Acme library of standard biography
Samuel Johnson Daniel Defoe
1880
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Beyträge zur geheimen Geschichte des menschlichen Verstandes und Herzens
Christoph Martin Wieland
1770German