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
St George & the dragon
Guanon psued
1885
Stanzas on an ancient superstition
William J. Rivers
1864
Stories after nature
Charles Wells
1822
Stories and anecdotes of bears
J. G. Wood
1868
Stories and anecdotes of the horse
Rollo Springfield
1867
Stories from heathen mythology and Greek history
J. M. Neale
1847
Stories from the Northern sagas
Albany F. Major, E. E. Speight
1899
Stories of Norway in the saga days
Mary Howarth
1895
Stories of wild animals
Alice Hawthorne
1860
Strange and curious superstitions and customs
Harry Houdini Collection
1891
Stray leaves from Fairy Land
Wilhelm Grimm, John Edward Taylor
1854
Supernatural healing
Edward Payson Goodwin
1889
Superstition
Carole Compton, Gerald Cole
1990
Superstition and progress, or, The ethics of criticism
Alfred W Martin
1898
Superstition, its nature, its manifestations, its evil, and the remedy therefor
William T Hamilton
1848
Superstitions and popular beliefs in Greek tradedy
Ernst Riess
1896
Supplemental nights to the book of The thousand nights and a night
Richard Francis Burton
1886
Sut Lovingood Yarns (Notable American Authors)
George Washington Harris
1867
Sweet first-fruits
William Sir Muir
1893
Tales and legends from the land of the tzar
Edith M. S Hodgetts
1890
Tales and legends of the middle ages
Francisco de Paula Capella
1892
Tales and sketches of the Scottish peasantry
Alexander Bethune
1839
Tales and stories from wonderland
Alfonzo Gardiner
1894
Tales and traditions of Scotland
Andrew Glass
1878