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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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
William Drake Westervelt
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Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race
Maud Isabel Ebbutt
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Roberta Gellis, Mercedes Lackey
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In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore
Seumas MacManus
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In the Beginning: A Navaho Creation Myth
Frank Goldtooth
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Indian Why Stories
Frank Bird Linderman
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Japanese Fairy Tales, Second Series
Teresa Peirce Williston
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Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Hugh Crosthwaite
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Legends of the Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley
Carrie De Voe
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Lives of the Greek Heroines
Louisa L. J Menzies
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Maidu Texts
Roland Burrage Dixon
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Men of the Deep Waters
William Hope Hodgson
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Moonshine and Clover
Laurence Housman
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Myth, Ritual and Religion
Andrew Lang
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Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race
Thomas William Rolleston
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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians
John Reed Swanton
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Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe
Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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Oceanic Mythology
Roland Burrage Dixon
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Old Indian Legends
Zitkala-Sa
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Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records
Matthew Williams Stirling
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Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealanders As Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs
George Grey
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Proserpine and Midas: Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader, Edited With Notes and a Vocabulary
Francis Ritchie
Date unknown