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
Contributions to the science of mythology
Friedrich Max Rt. Hon Mueller
1897
Creation records discovered in Egypt
George Clair
1898
Crosspatch the cricket and the counterpane
Frances Freeling Broderip
1865
Cuculain: an epic
Standish O'Grady
1882
Curiositates inauditae, sive selectae observationes de variis superstitionibus veterum, Orientalium maxime, Judaeorum, Persarum &.
Jacques Gaffarel
1706
Curl, the best of bull-dogs
Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg
1888
Current superstitions collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk
Fanny D. Bergen
1896
Cymon
David Garrick
1767
Dalziels' illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments
Dalziel Brothers
1860
De liflade of St. Juliana
Saint Juliana of Nicomedia
1872
De liflade of St. Juliana
of Nicomedia Juliana Saint, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Edmund Brock
1872
De vita et vaticiniis Merlini Calidonii
Bishop of St. Asaph Geoffrey of Monmouth
1830
Dealings with the dead
Anatole Le Braz
1898
Death in medieval Europe
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
2017
Dede Korkut & David of Sassoun
P. Mirabile
1993
Deirdre
Samuel Ferguson
1880
Description of the group of statuary representing Hero and Leander by Charles Steinhauser of Bremen
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1848
Diamonds and toads
Kate Greenaway
1870
Diatribe triplex, or, A threefold exercitation
Daniel Cawdrey
1654
Dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons
Manfred Lurker
1987
Die Avaśyaka-Erzählungen
Avaśyaka
1897
Diocesan water baby or, shall the Evangeline be given up?
A.C Day
1892
Divination, mythology and monarchy in Han China
Michael Loewe
1994
Dog stories and dog lore
Thomas Wallace Knox
1887