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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L'Odysée d'Homere
Homer
1756French
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Mythographi latini, C. Jul. Hyginus, Fab. Placiades Fulgentius, Lactantius Placidus, Albricus Philosophus, T. Munckerus omnes ex libris mss. partim, partim conjecturis verisimilibus emendavit, & commentariis perpetuis, qui instar bibliothecae historiae fabularis esse possint, instruxit. Praemissa est dissertation de auctore, stylo, & aetate mythologiae, quae C. Jul. Hygini Aug. Liberti nomen praefert
Thomas Muncker
1681Latin
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Mémoire sur le zodiaque de Dendera et sur l'année égyptienne
Auguste-Célestin Judas
1859French
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Pernety Les Fables Égyptiennes Et Grecques Vol. 2
Google Books
1758French
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Sagaenbibliothek des skandinavischen Alterthums in Auszügen, mit litterarischen Nachweisungen
Karl Lachmann, Peter Erasmus Müller
1816German
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Storia critica della superizione
Luigi Stefanoni
1869Italian
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The admiral's caravan
Charles E. Carryl, Charles Charles Edward Carryl, Reginald Reginald Bathurst Birch
1892
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Unsre vorzeit
Jakob Nover, Wilhelm Wägner
1887German
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Untersuchungen über Alpharts Tod
Emil Kettner
1891German
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Über einen naturwissenschaftlichen Aberglauben
Edmund O. von Lippmann, Naturforschende Gesellschaft Halle
1894German
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Über einige chansons de geste des Lohengrinkreises
Georg Osterhage
1888German
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Малороссийские исторические песни и думы
Евецкий Ф
1841Russian
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Сборник малороссийских заклинаний
Єфименко Петро Савич
1874Russian
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Chroniques, traditions et légendes de l'ancienne histoire des Flandres
Octave Delepierre
1834French
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Cultur-und Sittenbilder aus Steiermark: Skizzen, Studien und Beiträge zur Volkskunde
Anton Schlossar
1885German
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Der Verfasser des Ligurinus. Studien zu den Schriften des Magister Gunther
Albert Pannenborg
1883German
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Des deutschen mittelalters volksglauben und heroensagen
Friedrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Dobeneck
1815German
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Deutsche Volksmärchen
Friedrich Gottschalck
1846German
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Die Korndämonen
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1868German
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Die Sprichwörter und sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der Deutschen ; nebst den sprichwörtlichen Redensarten der deutschen Zechbrüder und Aller Praktik Grossmutter, d.i. der Sprichwörter ewigem Wetterkalender
Körte, Wilhelm
1861German
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Die kulte und mythen Arkadiens
Walter Immerwahr
1891German
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Genealogie der malabarishen [!] götter
Wilhelm Germann, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg
1867German
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Gretter der Starke
E. Dagobert. trl Schoenfeld
1896German
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Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses qui ont séduit les peuples, & embarrassé les savans
Pierre Lebrun
1750French