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
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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
Philoctète dans l'ile de Lemnos
Pierre-Marie-Joseph de Bazillac
1823French
Philtres, charmes, poisons
Emile Gilbert
1880French
Pokucie
Oskar Kolberg
1882Polish
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Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
1913
Riwaya ya Kiswahili
J. S. Madumulla
2009SWA
Roman de Troie
Benoît de Sainte-More, Dagmar Thoss, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
1400FRO
Rübezahl
Ludwig Friedrich Richter
1884German
Sagen und Miscellen aus Berlin's Vorzeit
Alexander Cosmar
1831German
Saggio sopra gli errori popolari degli antichi
Giacomo Leopardi
1846Italian
- Read free
Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa
2017
Shaku Nihongi
Kanekata Urabe
1657Japanese
Shan hai jing jian shu
Yixing Hao
1809Chinese
Shi yi ji
Jia Wang
1668Chinese
- Read free
Short Stories From the Balkans
1919
- Read free
Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
2023
- Read free
Sinbad the Sailor
1840
Sippurim
J. Brandeis
1889German
Sou shen ji
Bao Gan
1573Chinese
- Read free
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
1989
- Read free
Stories From Quechan Oral Literature
2014
- Read free
Stories From The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainments)
1909
- Read free
Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs: A California Indian Reader
2002
- Read free
Tales From the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work
1901
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Tales of All Nations: or, Popular Legends and Romances
1837