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
The girl who turned into a fish and other classic Philippine water tales
Maria Elena Paterno
1997
The gods of Olympos, or, Mythology of the Greeks and Romans
Augustus Heinrich Petiscus, Katherine A. Raleigh
1892
The gods of our fathers
Herman Isidore Stern
1898
The legends of the Wagner drama
Jessie L. Weston
1896
The lore of birthdays
Ralph Linton
1952
The mythology of the Eddas
C. F. Keary
1882
The natural genesis, or, Second part of A book of the beginnings
Gerald Massey
1883
The prose romances of Edgar A. Poe (Man That Was Used Up / Murders in the Rue Morgue)
Edgar Allan Poe
1843
The skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury tales
Henry Bradshaw
1868
The snake ceremonials at Walpi
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1894
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The story of a cat
Emile de La Bédollière, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Livingston Hopkins
1879
The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
1800
The works of Hesiod
Hesiod
1728
Theuerdank
Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor
1517
To the members of the Grange Patrons of Husbandry of Canada, these essays, Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, are respectfully dedicated
Christina Moffat
1886
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Virgil's Aeneid: The First Six Books and the Completion of the Story by Selections and Summaries; and Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Sections Required for Entrance to College in the Years 1923-1925
1923
Voodoo tales
Mary Alicia Owen
1893
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A Book of Folk-Lore
Sabine Baring-Gould
Date unknown
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A Child's Book of Warriors
William Canton
Date unknown
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A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales From India
A. K Ramanujan
Date unknown
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A Journey in Southern Siberia
Jeremiah Curtin
Date unknown
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A Peep at the Pixies: or, Legends of the West
Mrs. Bray
Date unknown
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A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources
Peter Bartis, Paddy Bowman
Date unknown
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Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule
H. B Paksoy
Date unknown