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
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Собрание народных руских песен с их голосами
Иван Прач, Николай Львов, Ян Богумір Прач
1790Russian
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Kalīlah and Dimnah or The Fables of Bidpai
I.G.N. Keith-Falconer
1885
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Marston MS 186, Historia destructionis Troiae
Guido delle 13th cent Colonne
1400Latin
- Read free
Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted
Provenance Bristol Royal Infirmary. Library, John Howell, John Jones, University of Bristol. Library
1797
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Prinzessin Ilse
Marie Petersen
1857
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The Crock of Gold
James Stephens
1926
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The Wolf-Leader
Alexandre Dumas, Frank Adams, Alfred Richard Allinson
1904
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The thousand and one nights
Edward Stanley Poole Edward William Lane
1839
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A Study of Fairy Tales
Laura Fry Kready, Henry Suzzallo
Date unknown
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A journey to Central Africa
Bayard Taylor
1862
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An Account Of The Manners and Customs (1836)
Lane Edward William
1836
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Astral Worship
J. H Hill
Date unknown
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Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona
Comalk-Hawk-Kih, Edward Hubert Wood, John William Lloyd
Date unknown
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Beside the Fire: A collection of Irish Gaelic folk stories
Douglas Hyde, Alfred Trübner Nutt
Date unknown
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
George Bird Grinnell
Date unknown
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Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
H. Stanley Redgrove
Date unknown
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Coinneach Odhar, Am Fiosaiche
D. B Blair
Date unknownScottish Gaelic
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Creation Myths of Primitive America
Jeremiah Curtin
Date unknown
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Kay Rasmus Nielsen
Date unknown
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El Payador, Vol. I
Leopoldo Lugones
Date unknownSpanish
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English Fairy Tales
Flora Annie Webster Steel, Arthur Rackham
Date unknown
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Fairies and Folk of Ireland
William Henry Frost, Sydney Richmond Burleigh
Date unknown
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Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
Elphinstone Dayrell, Andrew Lang
Date unknown
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From Ritual to Romance
Jessie Jessie Laidlay Weston
Date unknown