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
Sefer Efer ha-parah
1885Hebrew
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The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria.
John Ruskin, Richard Doyle
1927
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The Snake's Pass
Bram Stoker
Date unknown
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The Steel Flea
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, Isabel Florence Hapgood
Date unknown
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The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
Eugène Sue
Date unknown
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Hecuba and other plays
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Michael Wodhull, Henry Morley
Date unknown
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The Italian, Volume 2 (of 3)
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Date unknown
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Кобзарь Остап Вересай. Его музыка и исполняемые им народные песни
1874Russian
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Молодчикъ съ молодкою на гуляньѣ съ пѣсельниками
1790Russian
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बप्पबट्टिचरित्र
1656
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
1726
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The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde, and Other Stories
Mary De Morgan, Walter Crane
1880
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A Bakony (2. kötet)
Károly Eötvös
Date unknownHungarian
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A Lenda da Meia-Noite
Manuel Pinheiro Chagas
Date unknownPortuguese
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A Morte de D. Ignez de Castro
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Luís de Camões
Date unknownPortuguese
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A babonák könyve
János Varga
Date unknownHungarian
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A csudafa
Elek Benedek, Álmos Jaschik
Date unknownHungarian
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A lőcsei fehér asszony (I. rész)
Mór Jókai
Date unknownHungarian
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A magyar népköltés gyöngyei: A legszebb népdalok gyüjteménye
Elek Benedek
Date unknownHungarian
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A természettudomány fejlődésének története (1. kötet)
Wilhelm Bölsche, Aladár Schöpflin
Date unknownHungarian
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A tükör – Szegény kicsi Jula – Borzhistória
Mária Berde
Date unknownHungarian
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A-Saga, E-Legende, O-Sprook
Johannes Bosscha, Abm. Des Amorie van der Hoeven, J. van Lennep
Date unknownDutch
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Aallotar: Kertomus
Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, Väinö Hämeen-Anttila
Date unknownFinnish
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Abdallah eli nelilehtinen apila: Arabialainen kertomus
Édouard Laboulaye, Robert Mellin
Date unknownFinnish