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
Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore
Stephen Stephen James Meredith Brown
Date unknown
- Read free
Irish Fairy Tales
Edmund Leamy
Date unknown
- Read free
Irish Historical Allusions, Curious Customs and Superstitions, County of Kerry, Corkaguiny
Patrick M Foley
Date unknown
- Read free
Irish Plays and Playwrights
Cornelius Weygandt
Date unknown
- Read free
Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat
Jack London
Date unknown
- Read free
Isle of the Undead
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Date unknown
- Read free
Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy
Margaret Horton Potter
Date unknown
- Read free
Ixion In Heaven
Benjamin Disraeli
Date unknown
- Read free
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
Jack and the Check Book
John Kendrick Bangs, Albert Levering
Date unknown
- Read free
Jamaican song and story
Walter Jekyll, Alice Werner, Lucy Etheldred Broadwood, Charles Charles Samuel Myers
Date unknown
- Read free
Japan: From the Japanese Government History
Kan'ichi Asakawa
Date unknown
- Read free
Japanese Fairy Tales
Grace James, Warwick Goble
Date unknown
- Read free
Japanese folk stories and fairy tales
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Date unknown
- Read free
Jataka tales
Ellen C Babbitt, Ellsworth Young
Date unknown
- Read free
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur
Jean Bernard Lafon Mary-Lafon, Gustave Doré, Alfred Elwes
Date unknown
- Read free
Jewish children
Sholem Aleichem, Hannah Berman
Date unknown
- Read free
Jewish fairy stories
Gerald Friedlander, Beatrice Hirschfeld
Date unknown
- Read free
Jim: The Story of a Backwoods Police Dog
Charles G. D. Roberts
Date unknown
- Read free
John Bull on the Guadalquivir
Anthony Trollope
Date unknown