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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Le sang de la sirène
Anatole Le Braz
Date unknownFrench
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Le streghe
Defendente Sacchi
Date unknownItalian
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Legenden
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Hanns Gumppenberg, Niels Hoyer
Date unknownGerman
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Legenden und Geschichten
Aleksei Remizov, Arthur Luther
Date unknownGerman
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Legendoj
Andrzej Niemojewski, Bronisław Kuhl
Date unknownEsperanto
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Legendoja
Toivo Tarvas
Date unknownFinnish
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Legendy i pieśni ludu polskiego nowo odkryte
Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski
Date unknownPolish
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Legszebb orosz mesék kisfiuknak, kislányoknak
Leo Tolstoy, Ada Karinthy, Gábor Házsongárdy
Date unknownHungarian
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Leliane: een modern sprookje
Henri Borel
Date unknownDutch
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Lemminkäinen
Larin-Kyösti
Date unknownFinnish
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Lendas dos Vegetaes
Eduardo Henrique Vieira Coelho de Sequeira
Date unknownPortuguese
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Lendas e Narrativas (Tomo II)
Alexandre Herculano
Date unknownPortuguese
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Lentävä hollantilainen
Andrea H Fogowitz
Date unknownFinnish
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Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, tome I
Thomas Wright
Date unknownFrench
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Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, tome II
Thomas Wright
Date unknownFrench
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Les Portes de l'Enfer
Maurice Level
Date unknownFrench
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Les Robinsons basques
Francis Jammes
Date unknownFrench
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Les Romans de la Table Ronde (1 / 5)
Paulin Paris
Date unknownFrench
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Les Romans de la Table Ronde (3 / 5)
Paulin Paris
Date unknownFrench
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Les Romans de la Table Ronde (4/ 5)
Paulin Paris
Date unknownFrench
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Les Rythmes souverains: Poèmes
Emile Verhaeren
Date unknownFrench
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Les cent histoires de Troye
de Pisan Christine
Date unknownFrench
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Les derniers paysans - Tome 1
Émile Souvestre
Date unknownFrench
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Les mille et une nuits: contes choisis
Antoine Galland, Godefroy Durand
Date unknownFrench