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
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 13
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 14
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 15
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 16
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 17
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 18
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 19
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 20
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 21
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 22
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24
John Mackay Wilson, Alexander Leighton
Date unknown
- Read free
Winchester
Sidney Heath, E. W Haslehust
Date unknown
- Read free
Winning Buddha's smile
Charles Mundy Taylor, Jong-u Hong
Date unknown
- Read free
Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems
Eli Lundy Huggins
Date unknown
- Read free
Winter Evening Tales
Amelia E Barr
Date unknown
- Read free
Within the Tides: Tales
Joseph Conrad
Date unknown
- Read free
Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
Washington Irving
Date unknown
- Read free
Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us
Timothy Shay Arthur
Date unknown
- Read free
Women of the Classics
Mary Sturgeon
Date unknown
- Read free
Wonder Tales from Tibet
Eleanore Myers Jewett, Maurice Day
Date unknown
- Read free
Wonder-Box Tales
Jean Ingelow, Diantha W Horne
Date unknown
- Read free
Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J.
Charles Gilbert Hine
Date unknown
- Read free
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
John Bunyan, George Offor
Date unknown