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
Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865
Cyrus Townsend Brady, Howard Chandler Christy, Will Crawford, William J Glackens, Frank X Leyendecker
Date unknown
- Read free
Wurra-Wurra
Curtis Dunham, John Innes
Date unknown
- Read free
Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children
Julian Hawthorne
Date unknown
- Read free
Yiddish Tales
Helena Frank
Date unknown
- Read free
Yorkshire
Gordon Home
Date unknown
- Read free
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series
John Hartley
Date unknown
- Read free
Yosemite Legends
Bertha H Smith, Florence Lundborg
Date unknown
- Read free
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Date unknown
- Read free
Young Robin Hood
George Manville Fenn
Date unknown
- Read free
Young Swaigder; or, The Force of Runes, and Other Ballads
George Borrow, Thomas James Wise
Date unknown
- Read free
Yule-Tide in Many Lands
Mary Poague Pringle, Clara A Urann, Lewis Jesse Bridgman
Date unknown
- Read free
Zanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa
George W Bateman, Walter Bobbett
Date unknown
- Read free
Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Angelo De Gubernatis
Date unknown
- Read free
Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)
Angelo De Gubernatis
Date unknown
- Read free
Zophiel
Maria Gowen Brooks
Date unknown
- Read free
Ährenlese: A German Reader with Practical Exercises
Heinrich Conrad Bierwirth, Asbury Haven Herrick
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Ægle and the elf, a fantasy
Mary Bertha McKenzie Toland, Theodor Baur, Frederick Frederick Stuart Church, W. Hamilton Gibson, W. St. John Harper, H. Siddons Mowbray, René Theophile de Quélin, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Stephen Wilson Van Schaick
Date unknown
- Read free
Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Edward Hayes Plumptre
Date unknown
- Read free
Наські українські казки запорожця Іська Матиринки
Osip Bodianskii, Бодянский О.М
1835Ukrainian
- Read free
Чумацкие народные песни
Рудченко Іван Якович
1874Russian
- Read free
Aliscans, mit Berücksichtigung von Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm, kritisch herausgegeben von Gustav Rolin
Gustav Rolin
1897German
- Read free
Altfranzösische Sagen gesammelt von H. A. Keller
Adelbert von Keller
1839German
- Read free
Altfranzösisches Übungsbuch zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen und Seminarübungen herausgegeben von W. Foerster und E. Koschwitz. Erstes Zusatzheft: Rolandmaterialien zusammengestellt von W. Foerster
Wendelin Foerster, Eduard Koschwitz
1886German
- Read free
Anseïs von Karthago, herausgegeben von Johann Alton
Johann Alton
1892German