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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Semele: An Opera
William Congreve
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Shambhala
Nicholas Roerich
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Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
W. E Thomas
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Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek, Lucy Lloyd
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Stories from Il Pentamerone
Giambattista Basile
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia
Waldemar Bogoras
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Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies: Glimpses of Elfin Haunts and Antics
William Crossing
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Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster
Jeremiah Curtin
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Teutonic Myth and Legend: An Introduction to the Eddas and Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, Etc
Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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The Cyclops
Euripides
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The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California
C. Hart Merriam
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The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution
Gerald Massey
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The Dragon in China and Japan
Marinus Willem de Visser
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The Dîné: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians
Aileen O'Bryan
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The Epic of Kings
Helen Zimmern
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The Eskimo of Siberia
Waldemar Bogoras
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The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed
Kenneth Morris
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The Furies
Aeschylus
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The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298|* Jacobus de Voragine
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The Hermit Crab and the Needlefish: An Oral Tradition of the Marshall Islands
Jane Downing
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The Library
Apollodorus
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The Maggid of Mezritch
Yitzchak Dorfman
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The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse
Elsa Brita Titchenell
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