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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I viaggi di Gio. da Mandavilla, vol. 2
John Mandeville, Francesco Zambrini
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Iphigeneia Tauriissa: Viisinäytöksinen näytelmä
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eino Leino
Date unknownFinnish
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Kanteletar: Suomen kansan wanhoja lauluja ja wirsiä
Elias Lönnrot
Date unknownFinnish
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Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober: Ein Märchen
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Date unknownGerman
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Kurjat I: Fantine
Victor Hugo, Johannes Vihtori Lehtonen
Date unknownFinnish
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Les Noces Chimiques
Christian Rosencreutz
Date unknownFrench
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Norwegische Volksmährchen vol. 2
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Ludwig Tieck, Friederich Bresemann
Date unknownGerman
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Satukirja lapsille
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, David Konstantin Wyyrylinen
Date unknownFinnish
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鏡花緣
Ruzhen Li
Date unknownChinese
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長生殿
Sheng Hong
Date unknownChinese
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Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 2 (of 3)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jules Saladin
Date unknownFrench
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I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 2
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Date unknownItalian
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I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 4
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Date unknownItalian
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La vita nuova
Dante Alighieri, Antonio Agresti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date unknownItalian
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Les trophées
José-Maria de Heredia
Date unknownFrench
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Max and Moritz (Max and Maurice) English Translation
William Busch
1865
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Nausica
Joan Maragall
Date unknownCatalan
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Orlando innamorato
Matteo Maria Boiardo
Date unknownItalian
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Prometheus ontboeid: Een lyrisch drama in vier bedrijven
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alex Gutteling
Date unknownDutch
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Reineke Fuchs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date unknownGerman
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Riquet à la Houppe: Conte
Charles Perrault, Georges Ripart
Date unknownFrench
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The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Gawin Douglas
Date unknownSCO
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Ubirajara: Lenda Tupi
José Martiniano de Alencar
Date unknownPortuguese
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Venus et Adonis
William Shakespeare, François Guizot
Date unknownFrench