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
Yi jian zhi
Mai Hong
1879Chinese
Yun xian san lu
Zhi Feng
1796Chinese
- Read free
Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa
1901
Zoologie Morale
Eugène Mouton
1882French
"A few words about Algoma"
Frances Awdry
1888
"Wonders divine"
Sheila A. Spector
2001
200 pretty tales
Christoph von Schmid
1862
A Dictionary of polite literature; or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods and illustrious heroes ...
L. A. Lezer
1804Dutch
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nightsʾ Entertainments
Richard Francis Burton
1885
A True inventory of the goods and chattels of svperstition
inc Research Publications
1642
A book of ceilings
George Richardson
1774
A catalogue of chap-books, garlands, and popular histories
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1849
A chat about Kamakura and its environs
Sagara Kunitarō
1893
A clear and compendious history of the gods and goddesses
David Watson
1753
A clear and compendious history of the gods and goddesses, and their contemporaries
David Watson
1752
A clear and compendious history of the gods and goddesses, and their contemporaries, whether patriarchs, emperors, kings, princes, physicians, historians, poets, etc
David Watson
1753
A collection of ceilings decorated in the style of the antique grotesque
George Richardson
1793
A compendium of Grecian antiquities
Charles Dexter Cleveland
1831
A description of the Isle of Man
George Waldron
1865
A dictionary
W. R. Cooper
1882
A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith
1850
A discourse concerning Sanchoniathon's Phœnician history
Henry Dodwell the elder
1681
A discourse concerning Sanchoniathon's Phœnician history
Henry Dodwell
1681
A dog of Constantinople
Izora C. Chandler
1896