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 story of the totem
Ronald Campbell Campbell-Johnston
1800
The story teller
Hans Christian Andersen
1850
The student's first Greek play
Euripides
1867
The sunken kingdom
Peter James
1995
The supplement to Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures
Bernard de Montfaucon
1725
The surprising life and death of Dr. John Faustus, D.D.
Peter Force
1795
The symbol of the letter M
Cora L. V. Richmond
1895
The symbol series of lectures
Cora L. V. Richmond
1877
The tale of Beryn
Frederick James Furnivall, William Alexander Clouston
1887
The tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over sea
William Morris
1894
The tale of the living vampyre
Kevin Dodd, ProQuest
2021
The temple of the muses, or, The principal histories of fabulous antiquity
Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais
1733
The thousand and one nights, or, Arabian nights’ entertainments
Antoine Galland
1883
The thre kynges of Coleyne
Joannes of Hildesheim
1511
The three sons-in-law
Johann Karl August Musäus
1861
The three tales of the three priests of Peebles ...
Clement Bryce Gunn
1894
The traditionary annals of the Cymry
John Williams
1867
The tragedies of Aeschylus (complete)
Aeschylus
1829
The tragedies of Maddalen, Agamemnon, Lady Macbeth, Antonia & Clytemnestra
John Galt
1812
The tragedies of Æschylus
Aeschylus, R. Potter
1777
The tragedy of Medea
Charles Johnson
1731
The travels of Cyrus
Andrew Michael Ramsay, Nicolas Fréret
1814
The trilogy of Aeschylus and Shakespeare's Hamlet
Robert Davies
1885
The triumphs of superstition
Thaddeus Mason Harris
1790