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
The Greenland lovers, or, The history of Anningait and Ajut
Samuel Johnson, George Cruikshank, Edwin Thomas Truman
1812
The Handbook of folklore
1890
The High history of the Holy Graa
1899
The High history of the Holy Graal
1899
The History of Greece, from the earliest records to the close of the Peloponnesian war
1851
The History of Prince Tangut and of the princess, with the nose of a foot long
1812
The Little tin soldier
Houghton & Dutton Co
1880
The New history of the Trojan wars and Troy's destruction
1804
The Pagan mythology of ancient Greece and Rome versified
1809
The Palace of enchantment, or, Entertaining and instructive fairy tales .
1794
The Princess on the glass hill
Andrew Lang
1890
The Seven Swabians
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
1881
The Siamese tales
George Brewer, Thomas Cook, Richard Corbould
1796
The Story of Ulysses
Educational Publishing Company
1897
The Will-o'-the-Wisp
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The blue ribbons, a story of the last century
Anna H. Drury
1850
The bondmaid
Fredrika Bremer, Mary Lowell Putnam
1844
The bytal-pacheesee
1852
The canary bird
Edward Augustus Kendall
1799
The child's book of fairy tales
1851
The children of the castle
Molesworth Mrs, Walter Crane, Lucy Beatrice Rose Brassington, Macmillan & Co, R. & R. Clark
1890
The coming of the King
Florence M. S. Scott
1898
The day of a baby-boy
Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
1854
The dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus
1848