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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
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Srpske narodne pripovijetke, zagonetke i poslovice
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
1897SCC
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Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi
Viktor Rydberg
1886Swedish
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Untersuchungen über den Mythos der berühmtern völker der alten welt Vorzüglich der Griechen
J. Leonhard Hug
1812German
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Buch der Liebe
Johann Gustav Biusching, of Scotland Eleonore, Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1809German
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Chumat͡s︡kīi͡a︡ narodnyi͡a︡ pi͡e︡sni
Ivan Bilyk
1874Russian
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Conti di antichi cavalieri copiati da un codice della biblioteca di casa Martelli e stampati ora la prima volta per cura di Pietro Fanfani con note e dichiarazioni
Pietro Fanfani
1851Italian
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Deutsche Alpensagen
Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Alpenburg, Johann Nepomuk Alpenburg
1861German
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Deutsches Sagenbuch
Ludwig Bechstein, Adolf Ehrhardt
1853German
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Diabruras, santidades e prophecias
Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão, Teixeiria de Aragão, Augusto carlos, 1823-1903. [from old catalog]
1894Italian
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Die sagen und lieder des tscherkessen-volks
Shora-Bekmurzin-Nogmov, Berge, Adolʹf Petrovich, 1828-1886, [from old catalog] ed, 1801-1844. [from old catalog] Shora-Bekmurzin-Nogmov
1866German
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Gesta Romanorum
Hermann Oesterley
1872German
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Histoire des livres populaires
Charles Nisard
1854French
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Istoricheskīe ocherki russkoĭ narodnoĭ slovesnosti i iskusstva
Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev
1861Russian
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Le imagini de gli dei de gli antichi del signor Vincenzo Cartari, reggiano
Vincenzo Cartari
1625Italian
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Leyendas moriscas
Francisco Guillén Robles, Guillén Robles, Francisco, d. 1920. [from old catalog]
1885Spanish
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Norske bygdesagn
Ludvig Daae
1870Norwegian
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Nye eventry og historier
Hans Christian Andersen, Lorenz Frølich
1870Danish
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Ob istochnikakh i formakh russkago basnoslovīi︠a︡
Dmitrīĭ Shchepkin
1859Russian
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Opyt sravnitelʹnago obozri︠e︡nīi︠a︡ drevni︠e︡ĭshikh pami︠a︡tnikov narodnoĭ poėzīi germanskoĭ i slavi︠a︡nskoĭ
Petr Polevoi
1864Russian
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Sagen-buch von Böhmen und Mähren
Josef Virgil Grohmann
1863German
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Antonini Liberalis Transformationum congeries
Phlegon of Tralles, of Carystus Antigonus, Apollonius, Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, Wilhelm Xylander
1568Ancient Greek
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De deis gentivm, varia & multiplex historia, in qua simul de eorum imaginib. & cognominib. agitur, vbi plurima etiâ hactenus multis ignota explicantur, & pleraque clarius tractantur
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
1548Latin
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Die schönsten märchen und sagen aller zeiten und völker
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff
1850German
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El fabulero
Francisco Nieto de Molina
1764Spanish