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
German popular tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
1800
Geschiedenis van het heylighe cruys
Jean Philibert Berjeau
1863Dutch
Ghostly tales of Minnesota
Ruth D Hein, Adventure Publications
1992
Gloucestershire
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1892
Gods and heroes of the North
Isabella White
1893
Good and evil Momo-ta-ro
Naohide Abe
1887
Graf Drakula
Tatʹi︠a︡na Andreevna Mikhaĭlova, Mikhail Odesskiĭ, Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ gumanitarnyĭ universitet, Т. А. Михайлова, М. П. Одесский, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет
2019
Grandpapa's tales about birds and fishes
James of Halifax Bland
1852
Greek myths
Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick
1896
Greek peasant stories, or, Gleams and glooms of Grecian colour
Neil Wynn Williams
1899
Grettis Saga
Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris
1869
Grimm's goblins
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, George Cruikshank
1867
Grimm's household fairy tales
Ella Boldey, R. André
1890
Grimms' goblins
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hablot Knight Browne, Edmund Evans, George Vickers
1859
Guarica, the charib bride
Henry William Herbert
1844
Handbook of the religion and mythology of the Greeks, with a short account of the religious system of the Romans
H. W. Stoll
1852
Haunted Japan
Catrien Ross, ProQuest
2020
Helps to Hereford history, civil and legendary
James Dacres Devlin
1848
Here begynneth the kalendre of the newe legende of Englande
John Capgrave
1516
Heroes [by] Edna Dean Proctor
Albert P. Marble, Edna Dean Proctor
1893
Hiawatha
Cornelius Mathews, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
1882
Himalayan folk-lore
A. T. Banon
1887
Hindoo superstitions
McManus-Young Collection
1845
Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poètes
Pierre Gautruche
1678