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.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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 Stone Axe of Burkamukk
Mary Grant Bruce, J Macfarlane
1922
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The Stories of El Dorado
Frona Eunice Wait
1904
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The Story of Siegfried
James Baldwin, Howard Pyle
1882
- Read free
The Story of the Siren
Edward Morgan Forster
1920
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The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
Edith Birkhead
1921
- Read free
The Younger Titurel (Fernberger-Dietrichstein Manuscript) [The Younger Titurel (Fernberger-Dietrichstein Manuscript)]
Wolfram von Eschenbach Albrecht von Scharfenberg
1400GMH
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The adventures of a brownie
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1841
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The brown owl, a fairy story
Ford Madox Ford, Ford Madox Brown
1891
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The childhood of the world
Edward Clodd
1873
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The children of the castle
Mary Louisa Molesworth, Mrs Molesworth, Walter Crane
1890
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The flowers and gardens of Japan
Florence Du Cane, Ella Du Cane
1908
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The gods of Mexico
Lewis Spence
1923
- Read free
The sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
Snorri Sturluson, Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krogh, Gerhard Munthe, Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen, Erik Theodor Werenskiold, Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen, Ethel Harriet Hearn, Gustav Storm, Snorri Sturluson, 1179?-1241|* Snorri Sturluson
1911
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Thirty Indian legends
Margaret Bemister
1917
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Three Good Giants
François Rabelais, John Bull Smith Dimitry, Gustave Doré, Albert Robida
1887
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Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales
Cyrus Adler, Allan Ramsay
1898
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Tradizioni e leggende in Lombardia
Pier Ambrogio Curti
1856Italian
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Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
Kālidāsa, Arthur Arthur William Ryder
1914
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True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural
Sidney Dickinson, Gertrude Ogden Tubby
1920
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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Nathaniel Bright Emerson
1909
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Verba Seniorum ( Beinecke MS 482.78)
Beinecke MS 482.78
1200Latin
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Volksbücher
Gotthard Oswald Marbach
1838German
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Værtshuset i Spessart
Wilhelm Hauff
1884Danish
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Werwolves
Elliott O'Donnell
1912