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
Sanskrit and its kindred literatures, studies in comparative mythology
Laura Elizabeth Poor
1881
Scenecae [sic] Tragoediae
Seneca the Younger
1517
Schippeitaro
T. H. Mrs James
1895
Scottish fairy tales
George Brisbane Douglas
1892
Scriptural view of the wine question
Moses Stuart
1848
Secrets of bee-keeping
K. P Kidder
1868
Select writings of Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers
1847
Semitic legends
Baron Louis Benas
1874
Serbian folk-lore
Elodie Lawton Mījatovīć
1874
Sermonic fancy work on the figures of our first acquaintances in literature
John Paul Ritchie
1880
Shakespeare's Puck, and his folkslore
William Bell
1852
Shakspeare's crab tree
Charles Frederick Green
1862
Shetland folk-lore
J. Spence
1899
Silva gadelica (I-XXXI)
Standish O'Grady
1892
Sixe court comedies
John Lyly
1632
Sketches of Nassau
Frank I. Wilson
1864
Snow Bird and the Water Tiger
Margaret Compton
1895
Snow Bird and the Water Tiger
Amelia Harrison
1895
Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and other American Indian tales
Margaret Compton
1895
Solyman and Almena
John Langhorne
1762
Some Japan folk-tales
C. Pfoundes
1879
Sommermärchen
Rudolf Baumbach
1882
Sophocles, with annotations, introduction, etc.
Sophocles
1855
Spence's Polymetis abridged
Joseph Spence
1802