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
Era
Abou-Hassan, or, Caliph for a day
1880
Aladdin
1880
Aladdin and other fairy tales
1880
Ali Baba, or, The forty thieves
1810
Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
Marlene Tromp
2006
An Account of the remarkable recovery of Mrs. Mary Read, of Rehoboth, to the use of her limbs, of which she had been deprived three years.
1769
An Historical account of the kingdom of Siam
1803
An Indian speech in answer to a sermon preached by a Swedish missionary, at Conestogo, in Pennsylvania
1804
An account of a visit lately made to the people called Quakers in Philadelphia by Papoonahoal, an Indian chief, and several other Indians, chiefly of the Minisink tribe
1761
Antar
1819
Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology : a twelve volume anthology of scholarly articles
Brian P. Levacκ
1992
Astrology: Science or Superstition?
H. J. Eysenck, D.K.B. Nias
1982
Beauty and the beast
1890
Book of fairy tales
1880
Cachcach Yama
1890
Ceremonial Magic: A Guide to the Mechanisms of Ritual
Israel Regardie
1980
Children's holidays
1858
Cinderella
1893
Cinderella and the glass slipper
1896
Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper
1806
Concerning the Spiritual: The influence of the Theosophical Society on Australian Artists 1890-1934
Jennifer McFarlane
2012
Essay on superstition: being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances
William Newnham
1830
Fairy fancies.
Lizzie Selina Eden
1870
Fairy tales
1883