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
- Read free
Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Anatole France, Charles Robinson, Peter Wright
1929
- Read free
Beinecke MS 224, Legenda aurea, etc
Jacobus de Voragine
1450Latin
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Blackfeet Indian Stories
George Bird Grinnell
1913
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Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
James Willard Schultz
1916
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Bragur. Ein litterarisches magazin der teutschen und nordischen vorzeit ... 1.-8. bd.; 1791-1812
Christian Gottfried Böckh Friedrich David Gräter
1791German
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Brief Romances from Bristol History, with a few other papers from the same pen
Joseph Leech
1884
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Byways of Ghost-Land
Elliott O'Donnell
1911
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Cabinet des fées; ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux
Barde et Manget
1785French
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Cabinet des fées; ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées, et autres contes merveilleux
Abdalla Jean Paul Bignon
1785French
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Canadian Fairy Tales
Cyrus MacMillan, John Grier Hibben, Marcia Lane Foster
1922
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Canterbury Tales (Caxton edition)
Geoffrey Chaucer
1477
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Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Manuscript)
Geoffrey Chaucer
1410
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Congo life and folklore
John H Weeks
1911
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Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1890
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Cornwall's Wonderland
Mabel Quiller-Couch
1914
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Cossack Tales
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Jurij V Tolstoj, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol'
1860
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Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales
R. Nisbet Bain, Noel Noel Laura Nisbet
1894
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Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
Parker Fillmore, Jan Matulka
1919
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Das Kloster, weltlich und geistlich
Johann Fischart, Thomas Murner, Johann Scheible
1845German
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De ludo schacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ... etc
de Cessolis Jacobus
1409Latin
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Diaries of the Quaestor. PART 2
Ignacy Chołodźko, Ignacy The Holocaust
1898Polish
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Diaries of the Quaestor. VOL. 1
Ignacy Chołodźko, Ignacy The Holocaust
1898Polish
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Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac
1916
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El cuento del cortador de bambú
Desconocido
1600Japanese