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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
- Read free
Mythology of the Thompson Indians
James Alexander Teit
1912
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Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria
Lewis Spence
1916
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Myths and Legends of our New Possessions and Protectorate
Charles Charles Montgomery Skinner
1900
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Myths and Their Meaning
Max Max John Herzberg
1928
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Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
David M Krueger
2015
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Navajo Creation Myth: The Story of the Emergence
Hasteen Klah
1942
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Nebraska Folk Cures
Pauline Monette Black
1935
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Negro Culture in West Africa
George Washington Ellis
1914
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Neoellēnika Paramythia: Contes Populaires Grecs
Jean Pio
1879French
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Nez Percé Texts
Archie Phinney
1934
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Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives, With Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials
Linguistic Society of America
1939
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Norse Mythology: or, The Religion of Our Forefathers, Containing All the Myths of the Eddas, Systematized and Interpreted, With an Introduction, Vocabulary and Index
Rasmus Rasmus Bjørn Anderson
1876
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Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun
Katharine Luomala
1940
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Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos
Karl Meuli
1921German
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Om Ragnarok
Axel Olrik
1902
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On Aboriginal Religion
W. E. H Stanner
2014
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On Jewish Folklore
Raphael Patai
1983
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Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception
Diane E Goldstein
2004
One Beautiful Jutto- and Knowledge- Rama: Söbbra polest, for our rural children, and those gathered and coca for the predatory ajawiite, the mother of the slow öppiwad. [Section 1]
Friedrich Gustav Arvelius
1791Estonian
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Oral History Stories of the Long Walk (Hwéwldi Baa Hané)
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah. Diné of the Eastern Region|* Diné of the Eastern Region of the Navajo Nation
1991
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Oriental Tales, Collected From an Arabian Manuscript, in the Library of the King of France
Anne Claude Philippe Caylus
1745
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Ossian in Germany: Bibliography; General Survey; Ossian's Influence Upon Klopstock and the Bards
Rudolf Tombo
1901
Our vampires, ourselves
Nina Auerbach
1995
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Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses
K. Sara Myers
1994