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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Povești
Ioan Slavici
Date unknownRomanian
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Poésies populaires Serbes
Auguste Dozon
Date unknownFrench
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Prinssi Keijujalka
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tyyni Tuulio
Date unknownFinnish
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Prinzessin Mymra: Novellen und Träume
Aleksei Remizov, Alexander Eliasberg
Date unknownGerman
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Prophetia Ionae
Anonymous
Date unknownLatin
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Prophezeiungen
Max Kemmerich
Date unknownGerman
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Pääskyisen Pakinat: Kertomia kiehkurainen Suomen kieltä oppivaisten hytödyksi
Eero Salmelainen
Date unknownFinnish
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Racconti
Francesco Dall'Ongaro
Date unknownItalian
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Ran: En dramatisk dikt
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Date unknownSwedish
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Ranchos (Costumbres del Campo)
Javier de Viana
Date unknownSpanish
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Ranskalaisia kansansatuja ja tarinoita
George Sand
Date unknownFinnish
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Ratsmädel- und Altweimarische Geschichten
Helene Böhlau
Date unknownGerman
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Recueil des exemples de la malice des femmes, et des malheurs venus à leur occasion
Anonymous
Date unknownFrench
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Revue de l'histoire de la Licorne, par un naturaliste de Montpellier
Pierre Joseph Amoreux
Date unknownFrench
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Rheinische Seher und Propheten: Ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte
Paul Bahlmann
Date unknownGerman
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Riesen und Drachen der Vorzeit. Geschichte der Erde, Dritter Teil
Rudolf Bommeli
Date unknownGerman
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Rinaldo ardito: Frammenti inediti pubblicati sul manoscritto originale
Lodovico Ariosto, Giuseppe Aiazzi, Innocenzo Giampieri
Date unknownItalian
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Robin Hood ja hänen iloiset toverinsa
John Finnemore, Jussi Tervaskanto
Date unknownFinnish
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Rolandkanto
Eugène Noël
Date unknownEsperanto
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Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazioni del Medio Evo vol. I
Arturo Graf
Date unknownItalian
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Roma nella memoria e nelle immaginazioni del Medio Evo vol. II
Arturo Graf
Date unknownItalian
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Roman d'Eustache le moine, pirate fameux du XIIIe siècle
Francisque Michel
Date unknownFrench
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Romanceiro III: Romances Cavalherescos Antigos
João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett
Date unknownPortuguese
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Romanceiro geral
Teófilo Braga
Date unknownPortuguese