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
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
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Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts
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Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland
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Heathen Mythology: Illustrated by Extracts From the Most Celebrated Writers, Both Ancient and Modern, on the Gods of Greece, Rome, India, Scandinavia, etc., etc
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Heroic Romances of Ireland
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Heroic Romances of Ireland
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Japanese Fairy Tales
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Jicarilla Apache Texts
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Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana
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Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts, Edited With Translations
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Life of St. Declan of Ardmore
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Life of St. Declan of Ardmore (Edited from MS. in Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels); and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore (Edited from MS. in the Library of Royal Irish Academy)
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Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales
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Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas
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Old French Romances, Done Into English
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Panchatantra Tales
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Popular Romances of the West of England
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Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends
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Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
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Seneca Indian Myths
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Sixty Folk-Tales, From Exclusively Slavonic Sources
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Snow White
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