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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Paroni von Münchhausenin retket ja seikkailut
Rudolf Erich Raspe, Samuli Suomalainen
Date unknownFinnish
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The wise woman
George MacDonald
1875
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Troijan Helena yksityiselämässään
John Erskine, Aino Tuomikoski
Date unknownFinnish
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子不語
Mei Yuan
Date unknownChinese
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De Ellendigen (Deel 2 van 5)
Victor Hugo
Date unknownDutch
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Duizend en één Nacht. Arabische vertellingen. Derde deel
Anonymous
Date unknownDutch
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 1
Anonymous, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Joseph Charles Mardrus
Date unknownSpanish
Erasure
Percival L. Everett
2001
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Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 1 (of 3)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jules Saladin
Date unknownFrench
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Geschichte des Agathon. Teil 1
Christoph Martin Wieland
Date unknownGerman
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Ifigenio en Taŭrido
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
Date unknownEsperanto
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Kultahanhi: Grimm-veljesten satuja
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Date unknownFinnish
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Le Paradis Perdu
John Milton, François-René Chateaubriand
Date unknownFrench
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Lendas do sul
J. Simões Lopes Neto
Date unknownPortuguese
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Les mille et une nuits - Tome premier
Antoine Galland
Date unknownFrench
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Noorsche Volksvertellingen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Tijs Terwey
Date unknownDutch
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Orlando Furioso, Tomo I
Lodovico Ariosto, Manuel Aranda y Sanjuan
Date unknownSpanish
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Sappho
Franz Grillparzer, Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
Date unknownFinnish
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The Fairiest, or, Surprising and Entertaining Adventures of the Aerial Beings
1795
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Visions & Cants
Joan Maragall
Date unknownCatalan
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Wild Animals I Have Known
Ernest Thompson Seton
1898
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A new Cyropaedia, or The travels of Cyrus with a Discourse on the theology and mythology of the Ancients , by Sr. Andrew Ramsay. A new edition, with many emendations and additions
Andrew Michael Ramsay
1760
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Duizend en één Nacht. Arabische vertellingen. Tweede deel
Anonymous
Date unknownDutch
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El conde Lucanor
Infante of Castile Juan Manuel
Date unknownSpanish