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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Babylonian religion and mythology
Leonard William King
1899
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Bulletin
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Anthropological papers
1887
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Dix contes de Perrault (Texte intégral illustré, avec moralités)
Charles Perrault, Harry Clarke
1697French
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Themis Dea, sev, De lege divina, Stephani Pighii campensis
Stephanus Vinandus Pighius
1568Latin
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Traditions tératologiques; ou, Récits de l'antiquité et du moyen âge en Occident sur quelques points de la fable du merveilleux et de l'histoire naturelle. Pub. d'après plusieurs manuscrits inédits grecs, latins et en vieux français
Jules Berger de Xivrey
1836French
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Beinecke MS 255, Halieutica, etc
Oppian fl. 2nd cent
1490Greek
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Di Ovidio Le metamorphosi, cioe, Trasmutationi
Agostini, Niccolò degli, active 16th century, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D Ovid
1533Italian
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Four and twenty fairy tales
Edward Henry Corbould James Robinson Planché
1858
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Household stories from the collection of Grimm Brothers
Jacob Grimm
1890
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Little Ellie and other tales
Hans Christian Andersen
1850
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The dragon, image, and demon, or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
Hampden C DuBose
1886
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Pharsalia
Lucan
1486
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Saga-book of the Viking Club
Viking Society for Northern Research
1892
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Habes, candide lector, Pvb. Ovidii Nasonis Heroides
43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D Ovid, Antonio Volsco
1538Latin
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Legends and theories of the Buddhists
R. Spence Hardy
1866
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Sefer tseʼenah u-reʼenah
Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi
1895Hebrew
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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Записки о Полтавской губернии. Ч. 2
Арандаренко Микола Іванович
1849Russian
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Alemannia
Freiburg i. B Badische Heimat, Anton Berlinger, Altertums- und Volkskunde von Freiburg Gesellschaft für Beförderung des Geschichts-, Fridrich Pfaff
1871German
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Alemannia
Fridrich Pfaff Anton Birlinger, Freiburg i. B Badische Heimat, Anton Berlinger, Altertums- und Volkskunde von Freiburg Gesellschaft für Beförderung des Geschichts-, Fridrich Pfaff
1871German
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Beinecke MS 1163, Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum
Gregory I Pope approximately
1350Latin