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
Ulysses
Nicholas Rowe
1706
Un-natural history; or, Myths of ancient science being a collection of curious tracts on the basilisk, unicorn, phoenix, behemoth or leviathan, dragon, giant spider, tarantula, chameleons, satyrs, homines caudati, &c
Edmund Goldsmid
1886
Up to date superstitions in common use in every-day life
Emma D. Mills
1895
Up-to-date superstitions
Emma D. Mills
1897
Urashima, the fisher-boy
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1895
Valhalla
Julia Clinton Jones
1880
Vampire legends in contemporary American culture
William Patrick Day
2002
Vampires, burial, and death
Paul Barber
1988
Venus & Apollo in painting and sculpture
William James Stillman
1897
Viaggi di Ciro
Ramsay Chevalier
1781
Victories of the saints
J. M. Neale
1870
Virgin prophetess
Elkanah Settle
1707
Völsunga saga
H. Halliday Sparling, William Morris
1888
Welsh folklore
Edwin Sidney Hartland
1892
Werter
Frederick Reynolds
1802
Western Africa
D. J. East
1844
What the moon saw
H. C. Andersen
1865
Wide-awake stories
Flora Annie Webster Steel
1884
Wild and weird: tales of imagination and mystery
Gilbert Sir Campbell
1889
Winnebago folk-lore notes
James Owen Dorsey
1888
Winter evening tales
James Hogg
1820
Winter solstice ceremony at Walpi
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1898
Wymps
Evelyn Sharp
1897
Xanthian marbles
W. W. Lloyd
1845