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
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
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The Celtic Dragon Myth
John Francis Campbell
1911
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The Chaucer Story Book
Eva March Tappan
1908
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The Constance Saga
A. B Gough
1902
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The Diamond: A Study in Chinese and Hellenistic Folk-Lore
Berthold Laufer
1915
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The Edda
L. Winifred Faraday
1902
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The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater
Roberto Morales-Harley
2024
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The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition
Frederick Thomas Elworthy
1895
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The Extant Odes of Pindar, Translated Into English, With Introduction and Short Notes
Pindar
1904
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The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1867
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The Feast of Bacchus: A Study in Dramatic Atmosphere
Ernest Ernest George Henham
1907
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The Festival of the Dead
Robert Grant Haliburton
1920
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The First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204|* Saxo Grammaticus
1894
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The Flying Canoe: Legends of the Cowichans
Beryl Mildred Cryer
1949
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The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans
Gunnar Landtman
1917
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The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists
F. A De Caro
2008
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The Garden of Heart's Delight: A Fairy Tale
Ida M Huntington
1911
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The Goblin Spider
Lafcadio Hearn
1899
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The Golden Apple Tree
Virna Sheard
1920
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The Golden Fish: Fairy Tales From the World Over
Georgene Faulkner
1931
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The Golden Mountain: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold From Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources
Meyer Levin
1932
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The Gothic Romance
Hans Reinhard Möbius
1902German
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The Hero of the Longhouse
Mary Mary Elizabeth Laing
1920
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The Heroic Ballads of Russia
Leonard Leonard Arthur Magnus
1921
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The History of Little England Beyond Wales, and the Non-Kymric Colony Settled in Pembrokeshire
Edward Laws
1888