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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Fêtes et coutumes populaires
Charles Le Goffic
Date unknownFrench
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Gaal György magyar népmese-gyűjteménye (1. kötet)
György Gaal
Date unknownHungarian
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Gaal György magyar népmese-gyűjteménye (2. kötet)
György Gaal
Date unknownHungarian
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Gaal György magyar népmese-gyűjteménye (3. kötet)
György Gaal
Date unknownHungarian
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Galatéa
António Joaquim de Carvalho
Date unknownPortuguese
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Genièvre
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Gustave Doré, Francisque Michel
Date unknownFrench
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Germaniens Götter
Rudolf Herzog, Robert Engels, Paul Hartmann
Date unknownGerman
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Geschichte des Prinzen Biribinker
Christoph Martin Wieland, Carl Schüddekopf
Date unknownGerman
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Geyer und das Obererzgebirge in Sage und Geschichte
Hermann Lungwitz, Max Grohmann
Date unknownGerman
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Giardino di Ricreatione
John Florio
Date unknownItalian
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Gloria
Ernst Lampén
Date unknownFinnish
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Goden- en Heldensagen
Ernst Hoffmann, Johann Samuel Theissen
Date unknownDutch
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Granada, Poema Oriental, precedido de la Leyenda de al-Hamar, Tomo 1
José Zorrilla
Date unknownSpanish
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Græsk Mythologi
Hans Holten-Bechtolsheim
Date unknownDanish
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Gänsemütterchens Märchen
Charles Perrault, Gustave Doré, Hans Krause
Date unknownGerman
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Hagyományok (1. kötet)
Lajos Kálmány
Date unknownHungarian
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Hagyományok (2. kötet)
Lajos Kálmány
Date unknownHungarian
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Halikon hakoniskat
Iida Heinonen, Niilo Kallio
Date unknownFinnish
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Halikon hakoniskat 2
Iida Heinonen, Niilo Kallio
Date unknownFinnish
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Hallatar ja paimentyttö
Sakari Salovaara
Date unknownFinnish
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Hanhiemon satuja
Charles Perrault, Tyyni Tuulio
Date unknownFinnish
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Haoma ja Anahita: Kertomus
Jalmari Hahl
Date unknownFinnish
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Heldensagen en Legenden van de Serviërs
Woislav M Petrovitch, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Cedomilj Mijatovic, Gilbert James, William Sewell, Joanna Petronella Wesselink-van Rossum
Date unknownDutch
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Helena Nybloms Sagor
Helena Nyblom
Date unknownSwedish