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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Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan
Richard Gordon Smith
Date unknown
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Argonautica
Apollonius, Rhodius|* Apollonius Rhodius
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Balefires
David Drake
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Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry
Thomas Bulfinch
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Bull God
Roberta Gellis
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Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Alice Alice Cunningham Fletcher
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Canadian Wonder Tales
Cyrus MacMillan
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Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx
John Rhys
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Celtic Wonder-Tales
Ella Young
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Chinigchinich: A Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians at the Missionary Establishment of St. Juan Capistrano, Alta-California
Gerónimo Boscana
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Chukchee Mythology
Waldemar Bogoras
Date unknown
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Contes
Aulnoy, Madame d', 1650 or 1651-1705|* Madame d'Aulnoy
Date unknownFrench
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Contes Maures (Recueillis à Blida)
Joseph Desparmet
Date unknownFrench
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Donegal Fairy Stories
Seumas MacManus
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
Ernest Ingersoll
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Egyptian Myth and Legend
Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel
François Rabelais
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Folk Tales of Brittany
Elsie Masson
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Folk-Lore of Women as Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk-Rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, Etc
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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Fridthjof's Saga
Esaias Tegnér
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From Snowdon to the Sea: Stirring Stories of North and South Wales
Marie Trevelyan
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H. C. Andersens Märchen für Kinder
Hans Christian Andersen
Date unknownGerman
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends
Thomas Thomas George Thrum
Date unknown