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
Nanibozhu amongst the Otchipwe, Mississagas, and other Algonkian tribes
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
1891
Negro myths from the Georgian coast told in the vernacular
Charles Colcock Jones Jr
1888
Nelson and Puck
E. Blantyre Simpson
1882
Neueröffneter Musen-Tempel
Bernard Picart
1733German
New Arabian nights' entertainments
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
1826
New Arabian nightsʾ entertainments
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall
1826
Nihongi
W. G. Aston
1896
Nimrod
A. Herbert
1828
Niphon and its antiquities
William Copeland Borlase
1876
Norse stories
Hamilton Wright Mabie
1882
Northern fairy tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1880
Northern mythology, comprising the principal popular traditions and superstitions of Scandinavia, north Germany, and the Netherlands
Benjamin Thorpe
1851
Norwegian fairy tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1895
Notebooks manuscript [ca. 1883]
Joseph Robertson, William Macmath
1883
Notes and corrections for the Ryme-index
Henry Cromie
1875
Notes on Ojibwa folk-lore
Walter James Hoffman
1889
Notes on the Buddha rock-temples of Ajanta
James Burgess
1879
Notes on the cosmogony and theogony of the Mojave Indians of the Rio Colorado, Arizona
John Gregory Bourke
1889
Notes upon the Codex Ramirez
Henry Phillips
1884
Oannes according to Berosus
James John Garth Wilkinson
1888
Observations on the popular antiques of Great Britain
John Brand
1893
Odysseus
Max Bruch
1872
Of superstition
Henry Hammond
1645
Old English customs extant at the present time
P. H. Ditchfield
1896