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
The Arabian nights
Edward Everett Hale
1892
The Arabian nights
Antoine Galland
1819
The Arabian nights' entertainments
Samuel Eliot
1880
The Arabian nights’ entertainments; or, The thousand and one nights
Antoine Galland
1813
The Baitál pachísí
Edward Backhouse Eastwick, William Burckhardt Barker
1855
The Basket of Flowers, and Other Tales
Christoph von Schmid
1857
The Beauties of happiness
John Adams
1815
The Black Forest
L. G. Séguin
1879
The Black Wodas
Hugo von Meltzl
1879
The Braemer Highlands
Elizabeth W. R. Taylor
1869
The Charmed roe, or, The little brother and little sister
Otto Speckter, Louis Haghe, Thomas Pickem
1847
The Chassidim
S. Schechter
1887
The Columbian dictionary of the English language
Caleb Alexander
1800
The Cæsars and other papers
Thomas De Quincey
1862
The Dhegiha language
James Owen Dorsey
1890
The Dwarfs' tailor
Zoe Dana Underhill
1896
The Fenian nights' entertainments, being a series of Ossianic legends told at a Wexford fireside
Patrick Joseph McCall
1897
The Frithjof saga
Esaias Tegnér, Charles William Heckethorn
1856
The Good child's fairy gift
Charles Perrault
1854
The Greenland lovers, or, The history of Anningait & Ajut
Samuel Johnson
1812
The Hecuba, Medea, Phœnissæ, and Orestes, of Euripides
Euripides
1846
The Heidenmauer
James Fenimore Cooper
1893
The History of the life and glorious actions of the mighty Hercules, of Greece. ....
Joseph Ritson
1730
The Home treasury of old story books
Henry Cole, Henry Sir Cole
1859