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
- Read free
Whittingham Vale, Northumberland: Its History, Traditions, and Folk Lore
David Dippie Dixon
1895
- Read free
Wind and Wave: Selected Tales
William Sharp
1902
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs
2017
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Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Tales and Traditions Collected Entirely from Oral Sources
John Gregorson Campbell
1902
- Read free
With Aesop Along the Black Border
Ambrose Elliott Gonzales
1924
- Read free
Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature
Jeanne Rosier Smith
1997
- Read free
Wymps, and Other Fairy Tales
Evelyn Sharp
1897
- Read free
Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
George Bryant
2013
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Yaqui Myths and Legends
Elizabeth Warner Giddings
1959
Yeats, Folklore, and Occultism
Frank Kinahan
2019
- Read free
Ze'enah U-Re'enah: A Critical Translation Into English
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
2017
- Read free
Zuni Mythology
Ruth Benedict
1935
A book of the beginnings, containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace
Gerald Massey
1881
A legend of the Jaina stūpa at Mathurā
Jinaprabha Sūri
1897
A study of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
Walter C. Summers
1894
Anthology of English Folk Tales
Folk Tales Folk Tales Authors, Folk Tales Staff
2016
Antiquitates vulgares
Henry Bourne
1725
Bengal peasant life
Lal Behari Day
1878
Book of English fairy tales from the north-country
Alfred C. Fryer
1884
Buddhaghosuppatti, or, The historical romance of the rise and career of Buddhaghosa
Mahāmaṅgala, James Gray
1892
Caliban
Ernest Renan
1878
Cath Maige Tuired
Elizabeth A. Gray
1982
Christian legends
Eduard von Bülow
1884
Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Tiina Nunnally, Neil Gaiman
2019