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
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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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The Cross in Tradition, History and Art
William Wood Seymour
1898
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The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbos
Andrew Lang, Jean Jacques Bourassé, Catherine
1897
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The religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Morris Jastrow Jr, Morris Jastrow
1898
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The year book of daily recreation and information, concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties
William Hone
1832
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Tragedies
Seneca the Younger, François-Régis Chaumartin, Paul Jal, Friedrich Leo, Daniel Caietanus, John Boyd Thacher Collection DLC, John Davis Batchelder Collection. DLC, Gellio Bernardino Marmitta, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Boston Public Library. Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare, Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, John Studley, d. 1617 Thomas Nuce
1493
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Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown
1798
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Legends of Florence
Charles Godfrey Leland
1895
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Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain
John Brand, Henry Ellis, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1848
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Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song
Robert Hartley Cromek, Allan Cunningham, William Gillespie
1810
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The Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed
1890
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The saga of Walther of Aquitaine
Marion Dexter Learned, Dean of St. Gall Ekkehard I
1892ANG
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The song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, Grace Chandler Horn, John Sir Gilbert, Jeff Ulmer, Alex A. Blum, Making of America Project, Woodrow W Morris
1855
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A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition
Rufus Blakeman, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection DLC
1849
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition
Frances Amelia Yates
1964
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Popular superstitions
Herbert Mayo, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection
1852
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Red Book of Appin
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
1863
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Medii aevi kalendarium
Robert Thomas Hampson
1841
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Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings
Henry Maudsley, Royal College of Physicians of London
1886
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The ice-maiden
Hans Christian Andersen, Fanny Fuller
1863
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Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts
Anna Jameson, Mrs. Jameson
1850
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An introduction to folk-lore
Marian Emily Roalfe Cox, Marian Roalfe Cox
1895
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The Little Lame Prince
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1800
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Tales and traditions of the Eskimo, with a sketch of their habits, religion, language and other peculiarities
Hinrich Rink, Robert Brown, William Blackwood and Sons
1866
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Russian folk-tales
William Ralston Shedden Ralston
1873