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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Dream days
Kenneth Grahame, Ernest H. Shepard
1898
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 7
Anonymous, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Charles Mardrus
Date unknownSpanish
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Jean-Christophe Pariisissa II
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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La Ilíada
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Alfred John Church, John Flaxman, Luis Segalá y Estalella
Date unknownSpanish
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Prager bilbul
1869Yiddish
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Roland Furieux, tome 2
Lodovico Ariosto, Francisque Reynard
Date unknownFrench
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Sbornik malorossijskih zaklinanij
1874Russian
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Sämmtliche Werke 3: Abende auf dem Gutshof bei Dikanka; Phantastische Novellen
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, B Schenrock, Otto Buek, Frieda Ichak, Alexandra Ramm, Ludwig Rubiner
Date unknownGerman
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Сборникъ украинскихъ пѣсень, издаваемый Михайломъ Максимовичемъ (Збірник українських пісень, виданий Михайлом Максимовичем)
1849Ukrainian
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குள்ளத்தாராசிந்து
1899Tamil
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Baron von Münchhausens merkværdige reiser og eventyr
Rudolf Erich Raspe, Gustave Doré
Date unknownNorwegian
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Folketro I Ældre Og Nyere Tider
1860Danish
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Fundamenta Krestomatio
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
Date unknownEsperanto
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Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (4 de 4)
44 BCE-18? Ovid, José Asensio, Francisco Crivell
Date unknownSpanish
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Penthesilea
Heinrich von Kleist
Date unknownGerman
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Rose in Bloom
Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Roosevelt Richards
1876
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The Three Bears Walter Crane 1873
Walter Crane
1873
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The history of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London
N/a
1830
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三國志演義
Guanzhong Luo
Date unknownChinese
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"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée
Vojislav Mate Jovanović
Date unknownFrench
A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough
Stephanie Lynn Budin, Caroline J Tully
2025
Alas Poor Ghost
Gillian Bennett
1999
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Animal Story Book (1914)
Andrew Lang
1896
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Bilderbuch ohne Bilder
Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Bernhardt
1864