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
Minor antiquities of Edinburgh
Robert Chambers
1833
Miscellaneous tracts and collections relating to natural history
William Falconer
1793
Miscellanies upon the following subjects
John Aubrey
1696
Miss Muffet's Christmas party
Samuel McChord Crothers
1891
Monument, myth and mythology
Dillip Kumar Khamari
2017
Moonbeams and brownies
Roma White
1894
More fairy tales from the Arabian nights
John D. Batten
1895
Mornings' amusement
Charles Mrs Mathews
1801
Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome
Richard Johnson
1640
Mother Goose nursery tales
Rosamund Marriott Watson
1859
Much in little
Cyrus Fletcher
1857
Museum of diversion, and tales of horror
Gorden M. Fisk, M. the blind man Baldwin, J. Priest
1843
Mystagogus poeticus, or The mvses interpreter
Alexander Ross
1672
Mystagogvs poeticvs
Alexander Ross
1648
Mystagogvs poeticvs, or, The muses interpreter
Alexander Ross
1647
Mysterious friendship
1801
Mystery upon mystery
The author of the Baron de Falkenheim
1808
Myth, miracle and Midrash
Emil Gustav Hirsch
1890
Mythical and legendary elements in the New Testament
Samuel J. Barrows
1899
Mythology
Monsigny Madame
1809
Mythology and rites of the British Druids ascertained by national documents and compared with the general traditions and customs of heathenism, as illustrated by the most eminent antiquaries of our age
Edward Davies
1809
Mythology compared with history, or, The fables of the ancients elucidated from historical records
Tressan l'abbé de
1797
Mythology in art
Willis Boughton
1891
Myths and myths-makers
John Fiske
1872