Tradition 24 of 33
Legendary beings and transformations
Fairies, elementals, vampires, werewolves, and other beings discussed in folklore, occult literature, or anomalous reports.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,883
- Earliest
- 1144
- to 2026
- Read free
- 36%
- 1,048 with public full text
- With covers
- 51%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,368
- Metadata match20
- Query match1,494
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
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
- Fairy tales1K
- Juvenile fiction413
- Fairies363
- Fiction359
- Vampires270
- Folklore228
- Children's fiction177
- Children's stories173
- Conduct of life164
- Children135
- Werewolves117
- Tales114
- Juvenile literature113
- Vampir111
- Foreign elements110
- Fantasy105
- Early works to 1800101
- Vampires, fiction93
- Fantasy fiction90
- Magic89
- Euclid's Elements88
- Specimens80
- History67
- History and criticism59
Top languages
- English1,776 · 62%
- German445 · 15%
- French254 · 9%
- Latin42 · 1%
- Japanese36 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Hans Christian Andersen56 books
- Charles Perrault46 in this tradition48 books
- Andrew Lang27 in this tradition36 books
- Walter Crane25 in this tradition26 books
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy25 books
- Wilhelm Grimm20 in this tradition24 books
- Jacob Grimm20 in this tradition21 books
- Euclid20 books
- Wenzel Müller15 in this tradition17 books
- Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]14 in this tradition15 books
- Harriet Muncaster14 books
- George MacDonald13 in this tradition15 books
2,883 books
Volksmährchen der Deutschen
Johann Karl August Musäus, Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch Kaulfuss, C. Armbruster, Rudolph Sammr
1815German
Voll verspukt!
Florian Schwebel, Judith Kleinschmidt, Karsten Teich
2026German
Von beiden gestaldten der heylige messze
Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von Karlstadt
1521German
Von der Concomitantien vnnd ob Hiesus Christus vnsser here ym Sacrame[n]t syens waren heylige[n] leibs vn[d] bluts volkom[m]en sey
Johannes Mensing
1529German
Walachische Mæhrchen
Arthur Schott
1845German
Wampir
Maria Janion
2002Polish
Wampiurek
Renate Welsh
2005Polish
Weerwolven en vampiers
Nancy Garden
1979Dutch
Wieczna miłość
J. R Ward
2010Polish
Xantruiel
Norbert Schustek
2026German
Zulmis et Zelmaide
Voisenon abbé de
1745French
Zur Kritik der altgermanischen Elemente im Spanischen
Moritz Goldschmidt
1887German
Zusammenstellung der französ[ischen] Wörter german[ischen] Ursprungs nach sachlichen Kategorien
Friedrich Wilhelm Wendler
1874German
¡A mordiscos!
Jesús Palacios
2008Spanish
¡Drácula vive!
Gonzalo Pérez Sarró
2007Spanish
¡Una de vampiros!
Juan Luis Sánchez, Luis Miguel Carmona
2018Spanish
¿Drácula, Dracul, Vlad?¡Bah...!
Alberto Breccia
2020Spanish
Über den Einfluss des germanischen Elements auf das Slavische
L. Biskupski
1885German
Über den Einfluss des Čechischen auf die deutsche Umgangssprache in Österreichisch-Schliesien
Eduard Tomanek
1891German
Über germanische Wörter im Französischen
Karl Hottenrott
1876German
Śmiertelna klątwa
J. R Ward
2010Polish
Ǵawâliḳî's Almuʻarrab
Mawhūb ibn Aḥmad Jawālīqī
1867Arabic
Сильный и славный храбрый воинъ Аника
Nathalie Ehrenbourg-Mannati
1850Russian
Сильный славный храбрый богатырь Иванъ Царевичь сынъ Царя Выслава Андроновича ѣдетъ, на серомъ волкѣ везетъ Жаръ птицу и Елену Прекрасную на златогривомъ коне
Nathalie Ehrenbourg-Mannati
1850Russian