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
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Volkstümliches aus Sonneberg im Meininger Oberlande
August Schleicher
1858German
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Votják népköltészeti hagyományok
Bernát Munkácsi, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
1887FIU
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Bassorilievo antico del Museo Vaticano rappresentante Tetide che chiede a Vulcano le armi per Achille
Antonio Nibby
1820Ancient Greek
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Contes populaires, traditions, proverbes et dictons de l'arrondissement de Bayeux ...
Frédéric Pluquet
1825French
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Cuentos de mi tierra
Víctor Balaguer
1864Spanish
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Die Furienmaske, im Trauerspiele und auf den Bildwerken der alten Griechen
Karl August Böttiger
1801German
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Galerie mythologique, recueil de monuments pour servir © l'©♭tude de la mythologie, de l'histoire e de l'art, de l'antiquit©♭ figur©♭e, et du langage all©♭gorique des anciens
Aubin Louis Millin
1811French
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Légendes religeuses bulgares
Liduā Shishmanovna, Shishmanovna, Liduā, tr
1896French
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Orphica
Gottfried Heinrich Schäfer
1818Ancient Greek
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Recherches historiques sur l'exercice de la m©♭decine dans les temples, chez les peuples de l'antiquit©♭, suivies de consid©♭rations sur ... les gu©♭risons ... © l'aide des songes, et le magn©♭tisme animal, et sur l'origine des h©þpitaux
L. P. Auguste Gauthier
1844French
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The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
1818
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Vedic mythology
Arthur Anthony Macdonell
1897
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Alruna
Franz Otto Spamer
1880German
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Auswahl norwegischer Volksmärchen und Waldgeister-Sagen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H Denhardt
1881German
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Beiträge zur Kentniss estnischer Sagen und Ueberlieferungen
Jakob Hurt
1863German
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Blumenkranz, zur belehrung und erheiterung der deutschen jugend, enthaltend
Berliner communal-lehrer-verein, ed Berliner communal-lehrer-verein
1851German
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De sancta cruce
Christof Eberhard Nestle
1889German
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Der Sagenschatz des Königreichs Sachsen
Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1855German
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Deutsche sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben
Ernst Heinrich Meier
1852German
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Dictionnaire portatif de la fable
Chompré M, Pierre Chompré, Aubin Louis Millin
1801French
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Die Sagen des Rheinlandes von Basel bis Rotterdam
F.J Kiefer
1870German
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Frithiofs saga
Esaias Tegnér
1880Swedish
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Gamle danske minder i folkemunde
Sven Grundtvig
1854Danish
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Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe di Longo sofista
Longus, Annibal Caro, Sebastiano Ciampi, Francesco Daniele
1811Italian