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
- Read free
Morte de Yaginadatta
Valmiki, Cândido de Figueiredo
Date unknownPortuguese
- Read free
Moses Tod: Legende
Rudolf Kayser
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Muinais-tiedustuksia Pohjanperiltä
Johan Wiktor Calamnius
Date unknownFinnish
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Muinaisten suomalaisten pakanalliset epäjumalat
Gustaf Erik Eurén
Date unknownFinnish
- Read free
Musta hepo: Kertova saaristolaisrunoelma
Larin-Kyösti
Date unknownFinnish
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Musta härkä
Maria Jotuni
Date unknownFinnish
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Mysterio do Natal
Henrique Coelho Netto
Date unknownPortuguese
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Mythen & Legenden van Japan
F. Hadland Davis, Evelyn Paul, Boudewijn Casper Goudsmit
Date unknownDutch
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Mythen en Legenden van Egypte
Lewis Spence, Johan Willem van Rooyen, Evelyn Paul
Date unknownDutch
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Mythen en sagen uit West-Indië
Herman van Cappelle, Willem Backer
Date unknownDutch
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Mythes chaldéens
Léon Alexandre Heuzey
Date unknownFrench
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Märchen (Illustriert von Alfred Kubin)
Hans Christian Andersen, Alfred Kubin
Date unknownGerman
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Märchen für Kinder
Hans Christian Andersen
Date unknownGerman
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Märchen und Erzählungen für Anfänger. Erster Teil
Hélène Adeline Guerber
Date unknownGerman
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Märchen und Sagen
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Date unknownGerman
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Märchen-Sammlung
Ludwig Bechstein, Hans Fraungruber, Karl Fahringer
Date unknownGerman
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Nachten en dagen
Douwe Kalma
Date unknown
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Nahkaratti
Arthur Conan Doyle
Date unknownFinnish
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Nala och Dayamanti: En indisk dikt ur Mahabharata
active 12th century Sriharsa, Abraham Herman August Kellgren
Date unknownSwedish
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Naplegenda
Miklós Bánffy
Date unknownHungarian
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Naples
Matilde Serao
Date unknownFrench
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Natalika
Lafcadio Hearn, Karin Hirn
Date unknownSwedish
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Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden
Josef Cohen, Pol Dom
Date unknownDutch
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Nederlandsche Volkskunde
Jos Schrijnen
Date unknownDutch