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
Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies, Cornelie Usborne
2017
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Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Date unknownGerman
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Dragons: A Revisionist Natural History — Toward the Formal Recognition of Draconis as a Suppressed Biological Taxon
Sebastian E. R. Blessen
2026
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Fables respecting the popes of the Middle Ages
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
1871
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Il pastor fido in lingua napolitana
Battista Guarini, Domenico Basile
Date unknownNAP
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Imdeduya: Variants of a Myth of Love and Hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Gunter Senft
2017
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Les châteaux d'Athlin et de Dunbayne (1/2), Histoire arrivée dans les Montagnes d'Écosse.
Ann Ward Radcliffe, Claude Louis Desrais, François Soulés
Date unknownFrench
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Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel
Date unknownFrench
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Roland Furieux, tome 4
Lodovico Ariosto, Francisque Reynard
Date unknownFrench
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Shamanism and the Evolution of Gynocentric Symbolism
Yoav Levin
2025
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy
Thomas W.P Dähnhardt, Fabrizio M Ferrari
2016
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Tales and traditions of Switzerland
William Westall
1882
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Tales of the East
Henry Weber
1812
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The adventures of Telemachus
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
1766
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The wide, wide world
Susan Warner, Frederick Dielman
1850
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Tyll Ulenspiegel und Lamm Goedzak: Legende von ihren heroischen, lustigen und ruhmreichen Abenteuern im Lande Flandern und andern Orts
Charles de Coster, Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski
Date unknownGerman
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八仙過海圖 卷
1300Chinese
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聊齋志異
Songling Pu
Date unknownChinese
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Aucassin And Nicolete
Andrew Lang
1887
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Balady i romanse
Adam Mickiewicz
Date unknownPolish
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El caso extraño del Doctor Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson, Emilio Augusto Soulère
Date unknownSpanish
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 3
Anonymous, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Charles Mardrus
Date unknownSpanish
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 6
Anonymous, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Charles Mardrus
Date unknownSpanish
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Kalevala (1835) 1. Osa
Elias Lönnrot
Date unknownFinnish