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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Der Vampyr, oder: Die Todtenbraut. Erster Theil.
Theodor Hildebrand
Date unknownGerman
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Der Vampyr, oder: Die Todtenbraut. Zweiter Theil.
Theodor Hildebrand
Date unknownGerman
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Der letzte Zentaur
Paul Heyse
Date unknownGerman
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Derroteros y viages à la Ciudad Encantada, ó de los Césares.
Pedro de Angelis
Date unknownSpanish
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Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen: Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen
Franz Grillparzer
Date unknownGerman
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Deseti brat
Josip Jurčič
Date unknownSlovenian
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Deutsche Märchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, M Thilo-Luyken, Dora Brandenburg-Polster
Date unknownGerman
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Dhoula Bel: Ein Rosenkreuzer-Roman
Paschal Beverly Randolph, Gustav Meyrink
Date unknownGerman
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Die Abenteuer Gawains Ywains und Le Morholts mit den drei Jungfrauen
H. Oskar Sommer, de Boron Robert
Date unknownGerman
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Die Argonauten
Franz Grillparzer
Date unknownGerman
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Die Deutschen Volksbücher VII: Die Schildbürger - Doktor Faustus
Gustav Schwab
Date unknownGerman
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Die Musen: Eine Ode
Paul Claudel, Franz Blei
Date unknownGerman
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Die Papst-Fabeln des Mittelalters
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Johann Friedrich, Ignaz von Döllinger
1863German
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Die Prinzessin Girnara: Weltspiel und Legende
Jakob Wassermann
Date unknownGerman
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Die Schlüssel des Himmelreichs; oder, Sankt Peters Wanderung auf Erden
August Strindberg, Erich Holm
Date unknownGerman
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Die alte Krone: Ein Roman aus dem Spreewald
Paul Keller
Date unknownGerman
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Die dreizehn Bücher der deutschen Seele
Wilhelm Schäfer
Date unknownGerman
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Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1920)
Honorio López
Date unknownTagalog
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Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1922)
Honorio López
Date unknownTagalog
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Dionyzos
Louis Couperus
Date unknownDutch
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Drei Gaugöttinnen
Ernst Ludwig Rochholz
Date unknownGerman
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Dunamelléki eredeti népmesék (1. kötet)
László Merényi
Date unknownHungarian
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Dunamelléki eredeti népmesék (2. kötet)
László Merényi
Date unknownHungarian
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Délvirágok; Oceánia
Mór Jókai
Date unknownHungarian