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
Hawaiian Historical Legends
William Drake Westervelt
Date unknown
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Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
Alfred Carmichael, J. Semeyn
Date unknown
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Jamaica Anansi stories
Martha Warren Beckwith, Helen Helen Heffron Roberts
Date unknown
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L'Argonavtica del s. Francesco Cini
Francesco Cini, Mathieu Greuter
1608Italian
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Manx Fairy Tales
Sophia Morrison
Date unknown
- Read free
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest
Katharine Berry Judson
Date unknown
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Myths and Legends of China
Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner
Date unknown
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Marie L McLaughlin
Date unknown
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Observations On The Mussulmauns Of India Vol-i
Ali Meer Hassan
1832
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Philippine Folk Tales
Mabel Cook Cole
Date unknown
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Philippine Folk-Tales
Clara Kern Bayliss, Laura Estelle Watson Benedict, Fletcher Gardner, Berton Berton Lewis Maxfield, W. H Millington, Berton L Maxfield
Date unknown
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Scottish Ghost Stories
Elliott O'Donnell
Date unknown
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Strange Pages from Family Papers
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Date unknown
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Tales of Bengal
S. B Banerjea, Francis Henry Skrine
Date unknown
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle
Date unknown
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The Banshee
Elliott O'Donnell
Date unknown
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The Blue Moon
Laurence Housman
Date unknown
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The Folk-lore of Plants
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Date unknown
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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
Herbert George Wells
Date unknown
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The Garden of the Plynck
Karle Wilson Baker, Florence Minard
Date unknown
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The House of Souls
Arthur Machen
Date unknown
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The Kiltartan History Book
Lady Gregory, William Robert Gregory
Date unknown
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The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes
Robert Means Lawrence
Date unknown
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The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes. By M. G. Lewis, ..
Matthew Gregory Lewis
1794