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
Mythologische Forschungen
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1884German
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Myths and Legends of All Nations: Famous Stories From the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian, and Other Sources
1914
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Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
1913
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Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
1914
Mährchen und Erzählungen
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
1853German
Médée
Hilaire Bernard de Requeleyne baron de Longepierre
1777French
Narodna književnost
Vido Latković
1967Serbian
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Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation
2001
Naturgeschichte der heidnischen Religionen, besonders der griechischen
J. A. Hartung
1865German
Natāʼij al-aḥwāl fī al-aqwāl wa-al-afʻāl
ʻĀʼishah Taymūrīyah
1888Arabic
Nebelsagen
Ludwig Laistner
1879German
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Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts
2022
Nihon ryōiki
Keikai
1881Japanese
Nissen
Vilhelm Bergsøe
1889Danish
Oeuvres complètes de l'abbé H.R. Casgrain
H. R. Casgrain
1873French
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Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture
2003
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Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic
1894
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Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation
2025
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Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
2013
Orphica
Orpheus
1818Ancient Greek
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Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural
1995
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Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia
2010
Patois & Locutions du Pays de Beaune
Charles Bigarne
1891French
Perezhitki drevni︠a︡go mīrosozert︠s︡anīi︠a︡ u Bi︠e︡lorussov
A. E. Bahdanovich
1895Russian