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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Eastern Stories and Legends
Marie L Shedlock, T. W. Rhys Davids, Anne Carroll Moore
Date unknown
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Ehstnische Märchen. Zweite Hälfte
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ferdinand Löwe
Date unknownGerman
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Eight dwelling places of Buddhist immortals
Five colors stone
Date unknownChinese
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El Folk-lore Filipino (Tomo I)
Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino
Date unknownSpanish
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 8
Anonymous, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Charles Mardrus
Date unknownSpanish
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El préstamo de la difunta
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Date unknownSpanish
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Elaine
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Gustave Doré, Francisque Michel
Date unknownFrench
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Elegyes gyüjtések Magyarország és Erdély különböző részeiből;
László Arany, Pál Gyulai
Date unknownHungarian
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Elektitaj fabloj de J. de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, G Vaillant
Date unknownEsperanto
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Elias Lönnrot: Elämä-kerrallisia piirteitä
August Ahlqvist
Date unknownFinnish
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Elias Lönnrots svenska skrifter. 1. Uppsatser och översättningar
Elias Lönnrot, Jenny af Forselles
Date unknownSwedish
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Elpénor
Jean Giraudoux
Date unknownFrench
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Els camins del paradís perdut
Llorenç Riber
Date unknownCatalan
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Elsbeth von Küssaberg, das Gotteli von St. Agnesen
Karl Friedrich Würtenberger
Date unknownGerman
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Eläinten sankareita
Ernest Thompson Seton, Into Konrad Inha
Date unknownFinnish
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Elämänpuu: Uskontotieteellisiä tutkielmia
Uno Harva
Date unknownFinnish
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Ennen ja nykyään 1
Hanna Ongelin
Date unknownFinnish
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Eredeti népmesék
László Arany
Date unknownHungarian
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Eredeti népmesék (1. rész)
László Merényi
Date unknownHungarian
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Eredeti népmesék (2. rész)
László Merényi
Date unknownHungarian
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Erotopægnion, sive Priapeia Veterum et Recentiorum
François Noel
Date unknownLatin
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Erzgebirgische Christ- und Mettenspiele
Max Wenzel
Date unknownGerman
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Erzählungen aus der Römischen Geschichte in biographischer Form
Ludwig Stacke
Date unknownGerman
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Eskimomärchen
Paul Sock
Date unknownGerman