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
The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown
- Read free
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier, Hilaire Belloc
Date unknown
- Read free
The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories
Lafcadio Hearn
Date unknown
- Read free
The Romance of the Woods
Frederick Whishaw
Date unknown
- Read free
The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras His Sone Who Conquerede Rome
Emil Hausknecht
Date unknown
- Read free
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Date unknown
- Read free
The Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans
Henry O'Brien
Date unknown
- Read free
The Ruinous Face
Maurice Hewlett
Date unknown
- Read free
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
Henry Van Dyke
Date unknown
- Read free
The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales
Robert Reynolds Steele, J. R. de Rosciszewski
Date unknown
- Read free
The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales
Louise Seymour Houghton, Friedrich Friedrich Salomo Krauss, Wladyslaw Wladyslaw Theodore Benda
Date unknown
- Read free
The Rāmāyana, Volume 3. Yuddhakāndam
Valmiki, Manmatha Nath Dutt
Date unknown
- Read free
The Rāmāyana, Volume 4. Uttara Kānda
Valmiki, Manmatha Nath Dutt
Date unknown
- Read free
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Volume 6 (of 14)
Charles Charles Francis Horne
Date unknown
- Read free
The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth
J. H. Philpot
Date unknown
- Read free
The Salem horror
Henry Kuttner, Margaret Brundage, Jim Mooney
Date unknown
- Read free
The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North
James Baldwin, Newell Convers Wyeth
Date unknown
- Read free
The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early Times
Anonymous
Date unknown
- Read free
The Scottish Fairy Book
Elizabeth Elizabeth Wilson Grierson, Morris Meredith Williams
Date unknown
- Read free
The Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
Thomas Hughes, Richard Doyle
Date unknown
- Read free
The Sea-Kings of Crete
James Baikie
Date unknown
- Read free
The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner
Date unknown
- Read free
The Secret of the Creation
Howard D Pollyen
Date unknown
- Read free
The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown