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
Tradiciones y artículos históricos
Ricardo Palma
1899Spanish
Tradicions del Vallés
Francesc Maspons i Labrós
1876Spanish
Tradicións
Apeles Mestres
1895Catalan
Tradicções populares portuguezas
Zofimo Consiglieri Pedroso
1881Portuguese
Tradisi lisan di Malaysia
Mohd. Taib Osman
1975Malay
Traditions & superstitions de la boulangerie
Paul Sébillot
1891French
Traditions et légendes de la Belgique
Otto von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida von Düringsfeld
1870French
Traditions orales des Bretons-Armoricains - Légendes chretiennes
François Marie Luzel
1874French
Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure
Henry Carnoy
1889French
Traditions populaires de la Côte-d'Or
Michel Hilaire Clément-Janin
1884French
Traditions tératologiques, ou, Récits de l'antiquité et du moyen age en occident sur quelques points de la fable du merveilleux et de l'histoire naturelle
Jules Berger de Xivrey
1836French
Tradizioni popolari catalane
Francesc Maspons i Labrós, Mattia De Martino
1882Italian
Tradizioni popolari veneziane
Domenico Giuseppe Bernoni
1875Italian
Tradições populares de Portugal
J. Leite de Vasconcellos
1882Portuguese
Tragōdiai sōzomenai. Tragoediae quae supersunt
Euripides
1797Latin
Traité des superstitions selon l'Ecriture Sainte, les decrets des conciles, et les sentimens des saints pères, et des theologiens
Jean-Baptiste Thiers
1697French
Traité des superstitions
Jean-Baptiste Thiers
1733French
Traité des superstitions qui regardent les sacremens, selon l'Ecriture-Sainte, les décrets des conciles, & les sentimens des saints peres, & des théologiens
Jean-Baptiste Thiers
1777French
Traité historique des dieux et des demons du paganisme
Benjamin Binet
1696French
Transito de Sancto Hieronymo
Matteo Capcasa
1489Italian
Trattato delle gemme che prodvce la natura
Lodovico Dolce
1617Italian
Tre digtninger
H. C. Andersen
1838Danish
Tre nye eventyr og historier
Hans Christian Andersen
1870Danish
Triton und seine bekämpfung durch Herakles
Jakob Escher
1890German