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 destruction of Troy
Raoul Lefèvre, William Caxton
1670
The destruction of Troy, in three books
Raoul Lefèvre
1684
The destruction of Troy, in three books ... Also mentioning the rising and flourishing of divers kings and kingdoms, with the decay and overthrow of others. With many admirable acts of chivalry and martial prowess, effected by valiant knights, in the defence and love of distressed ladies
Raoul Lefèvre
1670
The destruction of Troy, the secon book
Raoul Lefèvre
1684
The destruction of Troy, the third book
Raoul Lefèvre
1684
The dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus
John M. Kemble
1848ANG
The doomed ship, or, The wreck in the Arctic regions
William Hurton
1860
The dramas of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
1881
The earthy paradise
William Morris
1888
The eighth book of The travels of Cyrus
Ramsay Chevalier
1815
The enchanted doll
Mark Lemon, Richard Doyle
1849
The enchanted moccasins
Cornelius Mathews
1877
The enchanted waterfall
T. H. Mrs James
1895
The end of Atlantis
John Victor Luce
1969
The entertaining tales of the fairies
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Henriette Julie de Castelnau comtesse de Murat, Louise de Bossigny comtesse d' Auneuil
1775
The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban
Francis Bacon
1696
The essays, or, counsels, civil and moral of Sir Francis Bacon ...
Francis Bacon
1673
The ethics of the dust and the Queen of the air
John Ruskin
1869
The exempla
Jacques de Vitry
1890
The fable of Ouid treting of Narcissus, tra[n]slated out of Latin into Englysh mytre, with a moral there vnto, very pleasante to rede. M.D.LX
T. H
1560
The fabulous gods denounced in the Bible
John Selden
1880
The fairy family
Archibald Maclaren, Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1857
The fairy horn
S. Theyre-Smith
1880
The fairy ring
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, John Edward Taylor, George Dalziel
1846