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 two talismans
Albert Ludwig Grimm
1846
The ugly duck and other tales
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The ugly duckling and other stories
Hans Christian Andersen
1866
The vampire in legend, art and fact
Basil Copper
1993
The victim
Charles Johnson
1714
The village
Enoch Lincoln
1816
The visitors' new pocket guide to Coventry
J. W. Parbury
1890
The vvisdome of the ancients
Francis Bacon, Arthur Sir Gorges
1669
The vvisedome of the ancients, written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulam, and Lord Chancelor or England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight
Francis Bacon
1619
The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis
Leo Archipresbyter, Walter W. Skeat
1886
The whole .xii. bookes of the Æneidos of Virgill
Publius Vergilius Maro
1573
The whole works of Homer; prince of poetts, in his Iliads, and Odysses
Όμηρος
1616
The wild swans
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The wines of the Bible
A. M. Wilson
1877
The wisdom of the serpent
Joseph L. Henderson, Maud Oakes
1990
The wisdome of the ancients
Francis Bacon, Arthur Sir Gorges
1658
The witches pharmacopoeia
Robert Fletcher
1896
The wonders of the horse
Joseph Taylor, George G. Sickels
1828
The works of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton
1893
The works of Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and lord high chancellor of England. Volume the first. [-Twelfth]
Francis Bacon
1807
The world wonderful
Charles Squire
1898
The young ladies mythology, or, Fabulous history of the pagan divinities
Élisabeth Cacaoult de La Mimardière
1782
The young ladies mythology; or, Fabulous history of the pagan divinities, digested, on an entire new plan
Elizabeth Cacouault de la Mimardière
1782
Theater playbill for Matilda Heron in "Phaedra" and "Delicate Ground, or, Paris in 1793" at the Washington Theatre, February 19, 1858
Matilda Heron
1858