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
Era
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The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850
2002
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The Tale of Beryn; With a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner With a Tapster at Canterbury
1909
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The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, Translated From the Original Sanscrit
1840
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The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances
1908
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The White book Mabínogíon: Welsh Tales and Romances Reproduced From the Peníarth Manuscripts
1907
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The Yellow Fairy Book
1894
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The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda
1897
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The Younger Edda: Also called Snorre's Edda, or the Prose Edda
1901
Theorie des Aberglaubens
Otto Pfleiderer
1872German
Tradiciones vasco-cántabras
Juan V. Araquistain
1866Spanish
Trzy zorze dziewicze
Stanisław Czernik
1968Polish
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Tsimshian Texts
1902
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Tsimshian Texts (New Series)
1912
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Tuscan Fairy Tales (Taken Down from the Mouths of the People)
1880
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Un-Natural History, or Myths of Ancient Science
1886
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Uncanny Tales
1916
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Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag
2014
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Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
1893
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Vikrama's Adventures, or, The Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne: A Collection of Stories About King Vikrama, As Told by the Thirty-Two Statuettes That Supported His Throne
1926
Volksmärchen Aus der Bretagne
Heinrich Bode
1847German
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Weather Lore: A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules Concerning the Weather
1869
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When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon
1995
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Wigwam Stories Told by North American Indians
1901
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Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself
2000