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
The Book of Were-Wolves
Sabine Baring-Gould
1865
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The Broken Body
Francesca Iannarilli
2024Italian
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The Crimson Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
1903
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The Curious Book of Birds
Abbie Farwell Brown, E. Boyd Smith
1903
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The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites
Dudley Wright
1919
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The Fairy Book
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1863
- Read free
The Frog Prince and Other Stories
Walter Crane
1874
- Read free
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
- Read free
The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story
Gordon Hall Gerould
1908
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The Green Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
1892
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The Grey Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
1900
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The Initiates of the Flame
Manly Manly Palmer Hall
1922
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The Land of the Blue Flower
Frances Hodgson Burnett, William James Jordan, Plimpton Press
1909
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The Lilac Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
1910
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The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
William B Laughead
1934
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The Moon Princess: A Fairy Tale
Edith Ogden Harrison, Lucy Fitch Perkins
1905
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The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru
Lewis Spence
1907
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The Myths of the North American Indians
Lewis Spence, James Jack
1914
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning, Ladybird Books Staff, Kate Greenaway
1888
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The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America
Lewis Spence
1908
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The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
William William Alexander Craigie
1914
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The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Parker Fillmore, Jan Matulka
1920
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The Sleeping Beauty
Charles Seddon Evans, Arthur Rackham
1920
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The Spook Ballads
William Theodore Parkes
1895