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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Wu De Ji
Guang Wei Liu
Date unknownChinese
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Wäinämöinen: Lyriskt försök i tre akter
Gustaf Anton Brakel
Date unknownSwedish
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XII conti pomiglianesi
Vittorio Imbriani
Date unknownItalian
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Yntemoca yntlacamecayo, yn tlahtoque yn teteuhctin yn ompa tlaca ypan altepetl culhuacan yhuan nican tlahtoque teteuhctin yn ipan in tlaca huey altepetl mexico tenochtitlan
Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin
Date unknownNAH
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Yr Hwiangerddi
Owen Morgan Edwards
Date unknownWelsh
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Zaubermärchen
Albert Ehrenstein
Date unknownGerman
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Énide
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Gustave Doré, Francisque Michel
Date unknownFrench
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Öfversigt af Nordiska Mytologien
Daniel Anton Sundén
Date unknownSwedish
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Ύμνος εις την Αθηνά
Kostes Palamas
Date unknownGreek
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Αγαμέμνων
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Ioannes N. Grypares
Date unknownGreek
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Η νεράιδα του Πάγου
Hans Christian Andersen, Anastasia Chatziarapi
Date unknownGreek
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Ιλιάδος Ραψωδία Α: Μεταφρασθείσα εις δημοτικούς στίχους
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Athanasios Christopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες
Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolaos Spandones
Date unknownGreek
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Ιφιγένεια εν Ταύροις: Δράμα σε πράξεις πέντε
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kostantinos Chatzopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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Λουκιανός - Άπαντα, Τόμος Δεύτερος
of Samosata Lucian, Ioannes Kondylakes
Date unknownGreek
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Λουκιανός - Άπαντα, Τόμος Τέταρτος
of Samosata Lucian, Ioannes Kondylakes
Date unknownGreek
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Λουκιανός - Άπαντα, Τόμος Τρίτος
of Samosata Lucian, Ioannes Kondylakes
Date unknownGreek
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Μύθοι
Ioannes Velaras
Date unknownGreek
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Ο Άγιος Δημήτριος: Μυστήριον εις πράξεις 3
Platon Rodokanakes
Date unknownGreek
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Οι ευτράπελες ιστορίες του, Νασρ-εν-ντιν Χότζα
K Trikoglides
Date unknownGreek
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Οι χαιρετισμοί της Ηλιογέννητης
Kostes Palamas
Date unknownGreek
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Παραμύθια Δανικά, εκ των του Ανδερσεν
Hans Christian Andersen, Demetrios Vikelas
Date unknownGreek
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Το μυθιστόρημα του Τριστάνου και της Ιζόλδης
Joseph Bédier, Nikolaos Ventiris
Date unknownGreek
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Епически песни
Pencho P Slaveikov
Date unknownBulgarian