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 rat's plaint =
Archibald John Little
1891
The renowned history of Richard Whittington and his cat
John Babcock and Son
1826
The renowned history of Richard Whittington and his cat
Sidney's Press
1818
The robins, or, Domestic life among the birds
Sarah Trimmer
1845
The second froggy fairy book
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle
1898
The selfish man, or, The world's teaching
Alfred Crowquill
1857
The seven ravens
1882
The shoes of fortune
Hans Christian Andersen
1869
The snowdrop papers
TiT
1877
The story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table
Thomas Malory
1862
The story of a puppet, or, The adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
1892
The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
Anna Alice Chapin
1898
The thousand and one nights, or, The Arabian nights' entertainments
Henry Cocheu
1864
The three princesses
Alice M. Greene
1871
The thrie tailes of the thrie priests of Peblis
1603
The true story of Jack and the beanstalk
Arthur Sturgess
1899
The white cat
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy
1877
The wonder clock, or Four and twenty marvelous tales
Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle
1897
There was once
Helen Marion Burnside, M. A. Hoyer, Frances Brundage, T. Cromwell Lawrence, May Bowley, Edric Vredenburg
1899
This is the table of the historye of Reynart the Foxe
1489
This is the table of the historye of reynart the foxe
1481
Tom Thumbe, his life and death
1630
Tom, Thumb
Alfred Crowquill, Alfred Henry Forrester
1844
Traditions and legends of the elf, the fairy, and the gnome.
1840