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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Espada da Justiça Sobre os Reos do Horroroso Delicto Praticado no Navio Pelos que Morreraõ Enforcados aos 14 de Agosto de 1781
José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa
Date unknownPortuguese
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Essai sur la littérature merveilleuse des noirs, suivi de Contes indigènes de l'Ouest africain français - Tome premier
François-Victor Equilbecq
Date unknownFrench
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Eurimedon: L'illustre pirate
Nicolas-Marc Desfontaines
Date unknownFrench
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Evenor et Leucippe: Les amours de l'Âge d'Or; Légende antidéluvienne
George Sand
Date unknownFrench
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Fabeln und Erzählungen
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Date unknownGerman
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Fables de Florian
Florian, Louis François Jauffret
Date unknownFrench
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Fables et légendes du Japon
Claudius Ferrand, Ferdinand Raffin
Date unknownFrench
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Fabulae, virginibus puerisque aut narrandae aut recitandae
Reginald Bainbridge Appleton
Date unknownLatin
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Fairy tales
Wilhelm Hauff, Arthur Arthur Augustus Dixon, Lucy L. Weedon
Date unknown
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Favole per i Re d'oggi
Ercole Luigi Morselli
Date unknownItalian
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Fierabras
Jehan Bagnyon
Date unknownFrench
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Fiore di leggende
Ezio Levi
Date unknownItalian
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Fjällbyfolk: Bilder från öfre Norrland
Maria Rieck-Müller
Date unknownSwedish
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Floresta de varios romances
Teófilo Braga
Date unknownPortuguese
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Folkhumor
Elias Grip
Date unknownSwedish
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Folksångerna om Robin Hood: Akademisk afhandling
Carl Gustaf Estlander
Date unknownSwedish
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Folkungaträdet
Verner von Heidenstam
Date unknownSwedish
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Fra Mindebo: Jyske Folkeæventyr
Evald Tang Kristensen
Date unknownDanish
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Fragments d'épopées romanes du XIIe siècle
Edward Le Glay
Date unknownFrench
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Fuxloh; oder, Die Taten und Anschläge des Kasper Dullhäubel: Ein Schelmenroman
Hans Watzlik
Date unknownGerman
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Fábulas
Félix María Samaniego
Date unknownSpanish
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Fábulas literarias
Tomás de Iriarte
Date unknownSpanish
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Fábulas y cuentos en verso
María Goyri
Date unknownSpanish
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Fábulas—folhas cahidas
João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett
Date unknownPortuguese