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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Französische Volkslieder
Moriz Haupt
1877German
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Gods and heroes, or, The kingdom of Jupiter
Robert Edward Francillon
1892
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Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2
Phineas Camp Headley
Date unknown
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 03 (of 15), Spanish American
Charles Morris
Date unknown
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Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish
Charles Morris
Date unknown
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Historya trojaska, 1563
Guido delle Colonne, Samuel Adalberg
1896Polish
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In Both Worlds
William William Henry Holcombe
Date unknown
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Islendzk a︠e︡ventyri
Hugo Gering
1882Icelandic
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Kath manjar, or Bunch of stories
John Garrett
1866KAN
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L' épopée celtique en Irlande
H. d' Arbois de Jubainville, Henry Arbois de Jubainville, Georges Dottin, Louis Léon Duvatt, Maurice Grammont, Ferdinand Lot
1892French
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L' optique
Jean Nicolas Marcellin Guerineau de Saint-Peravi
1763French
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La Russie dévoilée au moyen de sa littérature populaire
Eugène Hins
1883French
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La leggenda del paradiso terrestre
Arturo Graf
1878Italian
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La mythologie du Rhin
Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine, Gustave Doré, X.-Xavier-Boniface Saintine
1863French
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Le renard
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Édouard Grenier, Jules Claye
1867French
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Le roman du Saint Graal
Francisque Michel
1841French
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Les Avadânas
Stanislaus Julien
1859Chinese
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Les sirènes
Georges Kastner
1858French
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Les voyages de Cyrus, histoire morale. Suivie d'un discours sur la mythologie & la théologie ancienne
Ramsay Chevalier
1768French
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Life Blood
Thomas Hoover
Date unknown
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O methodickém výkladu pvěstí slovanských vůbec a o výkladu pověstí
Ignác Jan Hanuš, Karel Jaromír Erben, Ignác Jan Hanu
1862Czech
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Old Man Savarin Stories: Tales of Canada and Canadians
Edward William Thomson, Charles Charles William Jefferys
Date unknown
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Osage Traditions
James Owen Dorsey
Date unknown
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Petite légende dorée de la Haute-Bretagne
Paul Sébillot
1897French