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
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Epitome da Vida de Sta. Joanna, Princeza de Portugal, Religiosa da Ordem de S. Domingos, chamada vulgarmente a Santa Princeza. Traduzido do Italiano em Portuguez, e accrescentado por hum seu devoto
António] [da Silveira
1755Portuguese
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Eskimo Folk-Tales
Knud Rasmussen, W. J. Alexander Worster
1921
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Euripides and His Age
Gilbert Murray
1913
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Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore
Elsie Spicer Eells
1917
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Fairy Tales from Many Lands
Katharine Pyle
1938
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Fanciful tales
Frank R. Stockton, Mary Mary Elizabeth Burt, Julia Elizabeth Langworthy
1894
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Folk-lore of Shakespeare
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
1883
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Folklore as an Historical Science
George Laurence Gomme
1908
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Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda [microform]
Carl Christian Rafn
1829NON
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Fritz Saxl - Eine Biografie
Dorothea McEwan
2013German
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General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex. Book IV: The Art of Divination.
Bernardino De Sahagún
1577
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General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex. Book V: Omens and Superstitions.
Bernardino De Sahagún
1577
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Ghostly Phenomena
Elliott O'Donnell
1910
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Goody Two Shoes
Walter Crane
1870
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Grandes et petites mythologies
Karin Ueltschi, Flore Verdon
2020French
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Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
Lacy Collison-Morley
1902
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Hercvles Ethnicorvm ex variis antiqvitatvm reliqviis delineatvs
Lorenz Beger
1705Latin
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod, Hugh Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White, Homer
1914
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Het schilder-boeck
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Carel van Mander
1618Dutch
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Histoire d'un casse-noisette
Alexandre Dumas
1845French
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Indian Legends Retold
Elaine Goodale Eastman, George Varian
1919
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Indian Legends from the land of Al-ay-ek-sa
Harriet Rossiter
1925
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Indian Story and Song, from North America
Alice Alice Cunningham Fletcher
1900
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Indian child life
Therese O. Deming, Therese Therese Osterheld Deming, Edwin Willard Deming
1899