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
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe
1704
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
1875
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Basmele române
Șăineanu, Lazăr
1895Romanian
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Children of Heracles
Euripides
1828
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Chronicles of the Crusades
Jean de Joinville, Geoffroi de Villehardouin, J. A. Giles, Richard of Devizes, Thomas Johnes, Frank T. Marzials, Richard, Ricardus (Canonicus Sanctae Trinitatis
1848
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Folk-lore journal
South African Folk-Lore Society Working Committee
1879
- Read free
Memoirs Of U. S. Grant (1885)
Victorian Vault
1885
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Sicilianische Märchen
Laura Gonzenbach, Otto Hartwig
1870German
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The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam
Valmiki, Manmatha Nath Dutt
Date unknown
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The Trisula Symbol
William Simpson
1890
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An old fairy tale
Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, Richard Doyle, Charles Perrault, James Robinson Planché
1868
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Folk and hero tales
James MacDougall
1891
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Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Joseph Michael Gleeson
1922
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Library of the world's best literature
Edward Cornelius Towne
1896
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The amusing history of Tom Thumb
Thomas Seward
1800
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The old English baron
Clara Reeve
1777
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Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper 1814 Dolls To Make
printer. Marianne H Hansen – instructions Daniel Nathan Shury
1814
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De l'origine des cultes arcadiens
Victor Bérard
1894French
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Men and Manners In America
Thomas Hamilton
1833
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1851
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Padmāvat
Malika Mohammada Jāyasī, active 1540, author
1237Urdu
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Tractatus de Diversis Historiis Romanorum et Quibusdam Aliis, Verfasst in Bologna i.j. 1326
Salomon Herzstein
1893Latin
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Русская народная философия
Згарский, Евгений Яковлевич
1873Russian
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Billeder af livet paa Island. Islandske sagaer
Fr. Winkel Horn
1871Danish