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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Zofloya, ou le Maure, Histoire du XVe siècle
Charlotte Dacre, Madame de Viterne
Date unknownFrench
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Ιλιάδα
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Alexandros Palles
Date unknownGreek
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Ομήρου Οδύσσεια Τόμος Γ
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Iakovos Polylas
Date unknownGreek
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Προμηθεύς Δεσμώτης
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Ioannes Zervos
Date unknownGreek
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A book of nonsense
Edward Lear
1800
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Aisopolaisia Satuja
Phaedrus, Samuel Roos
Date unknownFinnish
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De Ellendigen (Deel 1 van 5)
Victor Hugo
Date unknownDutch
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De Ellendigen (Deel 5 van 5)
Victor Hugo
Date unknownDutch
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De Heilige Oorlog, gevoerd door Koning Elschaddai tegen Diábolus
John Bunyan
Date unknownDutch
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Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums
Gustav Schwab
1838
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Edipo rey; Edipo en Colona; Antígona
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, José Pérez Bojart
Date unknownSpanish
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El arte de amar
44 BCE-18? Ovid
Date unknownSpanish
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Gyges und sein Ring
Friedrich Hebbel
Date unknownGerman
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Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1896
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Isabella von Ägypten: Kaiser Karl des Fünften erste Jugendliebe
Ludwig Achim Arnim
Date unknownGerman
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Jean-Christophe Pariisissa I
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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L'Iliade
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Leconte de Lisle
Date unknownFrench
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La Belle au bois dormant
Charles Perrault
1840
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Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (3 de 4)
44 BCE-18? Ovid, José Asensio, Francisco Crivell
Date unknownSpanish
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Salaperäinen ovi
Robert Louis Stevenson
Date unknownFinnish
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The dog Crusoe
Robert Michael Ballantyne
1800
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山海經
Anonymous
Date unknownChinese
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警世通言
Menglong Feng
Date unknownChinese
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A mother's lessons on kindness to animals
S.W. Partridge and Co
1860