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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L'Ystoire de Eurialus et Lucresse, vrays amoureux, selon pape Pie
Pope Pius II, Octavien de Saint-Gelais
Date unknownFrench
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Les mystères d'Udolphe
Ann Ward Radcliffe, Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, Madame de Chastenay
Date unknownFrench
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Phaidra: 5-näytöksinen runomittainen murhenäytelmä
Jean Racine, Eino Leino
Date unknownFinnish
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Roland Furieux, tome 1
Lodovico Ariosto, Francisque Reynard
Date unknownFrench
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Roland Furieux, tome 3
Lodovico Ariosto, Francisque Reynard
Date unknownFrench
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Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg, Miska Petersham
Date unknown
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Stories from Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, Alfred John Church
1800
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Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques. Tome 35.
Charles-Georges-Thomas Garnier
Date unknownFrench
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Aventures de Baron de Münchausen
Rudolf Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger, Gustave Doré, Théophile Gautier
Date unknownFrench
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales
George Bird Grinnell
1892
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Cuentos de la Alhambra
Washington Irving, Luis Lamarca
Date unknownSpanish
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Fables de La Fontaine. Tome Premier
Jean de La Fontaine
Date unknownFrench
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Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 3 (of 3)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jules Saladin
Date unknownFrench
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I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 3
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Date unknownItalian
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Iracema
José Martiniano de Alencar
Date unknownPortuguese
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Kourroglou
George Sand
Date unknownFrench
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Las aventuras de Telémaco seguidas de las de Aristonoo
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Teodoro Blasco Soler, Mariano Antonio Collado
Date unknownSpanish
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Lentävä hollantilainen
Frederick Marryat, Väinö Nyman
Date unknownFinnish
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Les aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aristonoüs
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Date unknownFrench
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Les châteaux d'Athlin et de Dunbayne (2/2), Histoire arrivée dans les Montagnes d'Écosse.
Ann Ward Radcliffe, Claude Louis Desrais, François Soulés
Date unknownFrench
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Les misérables Tome II: Cosette
Victor Hugo
Date unknownFrench
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Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (1 de 4)
44 BCE-18? Ovid, José Asensio, Francisco Crivell
Date unknownSpanish
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Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1827
Wilhelm Hauff
Date unknownGerman
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Norwegische Volksmährchen vol. 1
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Ludwig Tieck, Friederich Bresemann
Date unknownGerman