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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De Edda
Frans Berding
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De H. Nikolaas in het folklore
Jos Schrijnen
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De Wonderen van den Antichrist
Selma Lagerlöf
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De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. De Vaderen
Joost van den Vondel, Hermann Jozef Allard
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De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. Het Pascha
Joost van den Vondel, Hermann Jozef Allard
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De complete werken van Joost van Vondel. Vorstelijke warande der dieren
Joost van den Vondel, Hermann Jozef Allard
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De ondergang der Eerste Wareld
Willem Bilderdijk
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De verliefde ezel
Louis Couperus
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De verrezen Gulliver;
Rudolf Erich Raspe
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Demonien ruhtinatar: Kertomus
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Den finska Sampo-myten
Carl Axel Gottlund
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Den tillförlitligaste Drömboken: Med öfwer 100 roliga figurer
Per Gustaf Berg
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Der Gastfreund
Franz Grillparzer
Date unknownGerman
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Der Hodscha Nasreddin I. Band
Albert Wesselski
Date unknownGerman
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Albert Wesselski
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Paul Heyse
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Der Mann im Mond
Wilhelm Hauff
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Der Nibelunge liet
Karl Joseph Simrock
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Der Pilger Kamanita: Ein Legendenroman
Karl Gjellerup
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Der Sagenkreis der Nibelungen
Georg Holz
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Der Satansgedanke
Rudolf Hans Bartsch
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Der Teufel und die Hölle
Alfred Köppen
Date unknownGerman