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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.|* Ovid
Date unknown
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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
Otto Rank
Date unknown
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The Phoenissae
Euripides
Date unknown
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The Red Indian Fairy Book, For the Children's Own Reading and for Story-Tellers
Frances Jenkins Olcott
Date unknown
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The Science of Fairy Tales: An Enquiry into Fairy Mythology
Edwin Sidney Hartland
Date unknown
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The Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Date unknown
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The Siege of Thebes
John Lydgate
Date unknown
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The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book: Containing The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard; The Baby's Own Alphabet
Walter Crane
Date unknown
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The Soul of the Indian
Charles A Eastman
Date unknown
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The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Date unknown
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The Suppliants
Euripides
Date unknown
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The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study
William Heaford Daubney
Date unknown
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The Traditions of the Hopi
H. R Voth
Date unknown
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The Welsh Fairy Book
William Jenkyn Thomas
Date unknown
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The Whale and the Sandpiper: An Oral Tradition of the Marshall Islands
Jane Downing
Date unknown
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The Wibelungen: World-History as Told in Saga
Richard Wagner
Date unknown
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This Scepter'd Isle
Roberta Gellis, Mercedes Lackey
Date unknown
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Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale
Edward Clodd
Date unknown
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Tower Legends
Bertha Palmer Lane
Date unknown
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Troy Book: Selections
John Lydgate
Date unknown
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When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends
Florence Stratton
Date unknown
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Wonder Tales From Baltic Wizards, From the German and English
Frances Jenkins Olcott
Date unknown
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Wonder Tales From Scottish Myth and Legend
Donald Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Date unknown
"Gothic Twilight"
Jacqueline de Giacomo
2011