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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Les opinions et les croyances
Gustave Le Bon
Date unknownFrench
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Letture sopra la mitologia vedica
Angelo De Gubernatis
Date unknownItalian
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Libros de caballerías
Ramón María Tenreiro
Date unknownSpanish
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Ligeia und andere Novellen; Sieben Gedichte
Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Kubin, Gisela Etzel, Theodor Etzel
Date unknownGerman
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Lingam: Zwölf asiatische Novellen
Max Dauthendey
Date unknownGerman
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Linguaggio e proverbi marinareschi
Emanuele Celesia
Date unknownItalian
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Ljungarsin taru
Zacharias Topelius, Helmi Krohn
Date unknownFinnish
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Lo rondallayre
Francesc Maspons i Labrós
Date unknownCatalan
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Lo rondallayre, Tercera série
Francesc Maspons i Labrós
Date unknownCatalan
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Los miserables - Tomo 1 (de 2)
Victor Hugo, J. A. R
Date unknownSpanish
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Los miserables - Tomo 2 (de 2)
Victor Hugo, J. A. R
Date unknownSpanish
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Lucian's Dialogues prepared for schools
of Samosata Lucian, William Henry Denham Rouse
Date unknownGreek
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Lucifero
Mario Rapisardi
Date unknownItalian
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Lukemisia lapsille 1
Zacharias Topelius
Date unknownFinnish
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Lukemisia lapsille 2
Zacharias Topelius
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Lukemisia lapsille 3
Zacharias Topelius
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Lukemisia lapsille 4
Zacharias Topelius
Date unknownFinnish
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Lukemisia lapsille 5
Zacharias Topelius
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Lukemisia lapsille 6
Zacharias Topelius
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Lukemisia lapsille 7
Zacharias Topelius
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Lukemisia lapsille 8
Zacharias Topelius
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Luonnosta ja elämästä: Satuja ja kertomuksia lapsille
Leo Tolstoy
Date unknownFinnish
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Lusitania: Canti popolari portoghesi
Ettore Toci
Date unknownItalian
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Lättiläisiä satuja
Victor von Andrejanoff, Meri Sulju
Date unknownFinnish