📚 Folklore

Books with folklore on their catalogue record, first published between 1873 and 2002, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject folklore in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 76,558 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Arabian Nights	Andrew Lang	1898	377
	Japanese fairy tales	Yei Theodora Ozaki	2002	199
	Women Who Run with the Wolves	Clarissa Pinkola Estés	1982	42
	Myths and myth-makers	John Fiske	1873	24
	Mythology of the British Islands	Charles Squire	1905	24
	Myths & legends of Japan	F. Hadland Davis	1912	21
	The fairy-faith in Celtic countries	W. Y. Evans-Wentz	1911	19
	Tales of Ancient Egypt	Roger Lancelyn Green	1967	18
	Hawaiian mythology	Martha Warren Beckwith	1940	16
	Korean folk tales: imps, ghosts and fairies	Pang Im	1913	15
	Ghosts!	Alvin Schwartz	1990	13
	The lore and language of schoolchildren	Iona Archibald Opie	1959	11
	Dictionnaire des symboles	Chevalier, Jean	1969	11
	D'Aulaire's Trolls	Ingri Parin D'Aulaire	1972	11
	Why the Sky Is Far Away	Mary-Joan Gerson	1974	11
	Of wolves and men	Barry Lopez	1978	11
	Aradia	Charles Godfrey Leland	1974	10
	Something from nothing	Phoebe Gilman	1989	10
	The uses of enchantment	Bruno Bettelheim	1976	9
	The Frog Prince	Edith Tarcov	1974	8
	Cross your fingers, spit in your hat	Alvin Schwartz	1974	7
	Best Loved Folktales of the World	Joanna Cole	1982	7
	American Tall Tales	Adrien Stoutenburg	1966	6
	The Tailypo	Joanna Galdone	1977	6
	The woman's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects	Barbara G. Walker	1988	5
	The Polar Bear Son	Lydia Dabcovich	1996	5
	The lore of birthdays	Ralph Linton	1952	4
	The three princes of Serendip	Elizabeth Jamison Hodges	1964	4
	Indaba, my children	Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa	1965	4
	Cunningham's encyclopedia of crystal, gem & metal magic	Scott Cunningham	1988	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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