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
Cinderilla [sic], or, The little glass slipper
1808
Cinderilla, or, The little glass slipper
1816
Cinderilla, or, The little glass slipper
1810
Classic tales
Eliza Robbins
1864
Constantio and Selima
James Easton
1795
County folk-lore.
1892
Craignish tales
1889
Critical remarks upon the adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses·
1700
Danish fairy tales and legends
Hans Christian Andersen
1897
Deirdri, or the lamentable fate of the sons of Usnach, an ancient dramatic Irish tale, one of the three tragic stories of Eirin
1808
Dick Whittington
L. Valentine
1865
Edith Withington
Madeline Leslie
1883
Eileen's journey
Ernest Arthur Jelf
1899
Emerald gems
1879
English traditional lore
1885
Facts not fables
Charles Williams
1833
Fairy tales
comtesse de Ségur Sophie
1869
Fairy tales for little folks
comtesse de Ségur Sophie
1869
Fairy tales in other lands
Julia Goddard
1892
Fairy tales told again
1872
False alarms; or, The mischievous doctrine of ghosts and apparitions, of spectres and hobgoblins, exploded
R. Johnson, James Akin
1802
Favorite fairy tales
Maud Humphrey
1895
Faëry tales and ballads
Felix Summerly
1845
Fennel-seed.
1790