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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The Wonders of the Horse, 1814
Joseph Taylor
1814
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Všudybylovy cesty a dobrodružství v zemi trpaslíků a obrů
František Jaroslav Peřina
1882Czech
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Šípková Růženka
František Doucha
1874Czech
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Alif Laila
Abdul Karim
1300Persian
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Ariane et Bachus
Marin Marais
1696French
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Bajky Ezopovy
Ezop, Jan Karlík
1890Czech
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Big Book of Fairy Tales
Gustave Doreé
1892
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Cephale et Procris
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre
1694French
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Code of gentoo laws, or ordinations of the pundits: from a persian translation, made from the original written in the Sanscrit language
1775
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Deutsche Vol
1735-1787
1800German
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Ezop, mudrc v otroctví
Jan Vácslav Rozum
1850Czech
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Folk and hero tale Walfs and Strays of Celtic tradition
1891
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Kalevipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1875Estonian
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Krolowa Wanda
François Gabriel Ledoux
1788Polish
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La magie au dix-neuvième siècle, ses agents, ses vérités, ses mensonges
Gougenot Des Mousseaux, Ventura de Raulica
1860French
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Légendes slaves
Alphonse Dubois
1889French
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Medee
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1693French
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Omphale
M. de La Motte
1701French
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Poetisches Lexicon, darinnen die schönsten Realia und auserlesensten Phrases, aus denen berühmtesten Poeten Schlesiens, so dann einevollständige Historia mythologica derer heydnischen Götter und Göttinnen, und endlich ein richtiges Reim-Register, nach Ordnung des Alpinbeths allen Liebhabern der Poesic zum Vergnügen, sonderlich aber der studierenden Jugend zum Nutz enthalten
Johann Christoph Mannling
1719German
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The British Magazine, Or, Miscellany of Polite Literature Comprehending an
1823
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České bajky
František Patočka
1899Czech
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ΦΙΛΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ [ 1709] ΗΡΩΙΚΑ [ 1]
FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS-ΦΛΑΒΙΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ
1709Ancient Greek
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ΦΙΛΟΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ ΗΡΩΙΚ A FLAVII PHILOSTRAT HEROICA 1806 J. FR. BOISSONADE
J.FR. BOISSONADE
1806Ancient Greek
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Aberglauben aus Masuren mit einem Anhange, enthaltend: Masurische Sagen und Mährchen
M Toeppen
1867German