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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The Mistletoe and its Philosophy: Shewing its History, The Origin of its Mystical and Religious Rites; Why This Weird Plant Was Preferably Chosen to Others; Its Legendary Connection with the Great World Reformer, Rama; Along With a Description of Several Rare Plants and Herbs That Possess Mystical Properties
Peter Davidson
1898
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The Mists of Rāmañña: The Legend That Was Lower Burma
Michael Aung-Thwin
2005
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The Mohawk Valley, Its Legends and Its History
W. Max Reid
1901
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The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology
Martin Martin Persson Nilsson
1932
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The Mythological Astronomy, in Three Parts
Sampson Arnold Mackey
1827
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The Mythology of All Races: Egyptian; Indo-Chinese
W. Max Müller, James George Scott
1918
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The Mythology of All Races: Finno-Ugric; Siberian
Uno Harva
1927
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The Mythology of All Races: Greek and Roman
William Sherwood Fox
1916
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The Mythology of All Races: Indian; Iranian
Albert Carnoy, Arthur Berriedale Keith
1917
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The Mythology of All Races: Oceanic
Roland Burrage Dixon
1916
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The Myths of Fiction: Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels
Edmund P Cueva
2004
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The Myths of Mexico and Peru
Lewis Spence
1913
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The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Sheila Delany
1994
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The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204|* Saxo Grammaticus
1905
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The Oral Tales of India
Jonas Balys, Stith Thompson
1958
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The Original Garden of Eden Discovered, and the Final Solution of the Mystery of the Woman, the Tree and the Serpent: Being the Lunar Theory of Mythology and the Analysis and Satisfactory Explanation of the Ancient Mystical Lore
John Martin Woolsey
1910
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The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian
James Macpherson
1851
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The Poetical Works of Ossian
James Macpherson
1863
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The Princess of Manoa, and Other Romantic Tales From the Folk-Lore of Old Hawaii
Emily Foster Day
1906
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The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel
David H Richter
1996
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The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man That Was Used Up
Edgar Allan Poe
1843
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston
1913
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The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, Written in French by Raoul Lefèvre, Translated and Printed by William Caxton (About A.D. 1474): The First English Printed Book, Now Faithfully Reproduced with a Critical Introduction, Index and Glassary and Eight Pages in Photographic Facsimile
Raoul Lefèvre
1894
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The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip
Rowland W Rider
1979