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
- Read free
Jean-Christophe Volume 1
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFrench
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Kuningastarinoita
Snorri Sturluson, Toivo Wallenius
Date unknownFinnish
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Kurjat II: Cosette
Victor Hugo, Johannes Vihtori Lehtonen
Date unknownFinnish
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La fée des grèves
Paul Féval
Date unknownFrench
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La metamorfosis, o, El asno de oro
Apuleius, Diego López de Cortegana
Date unknownSpanish
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Les pastorales de Longus, ou Daphnis et Chloé
Longus, Pierre Jannet, Jacques Amyot, Paul-Louis Courier
Date unknownFrench
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Maamme kirja
Zacharias Topelius, Paavo Emil Cajander
Date unknownFinnish
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Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1828
Wilhelm Hauff
Date unknownGerman
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Nouveau systême ou Analyse de l'ancienne mythologie
Jacob Bryant
1772
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Odysseia
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Date unknownSwedish
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Prometheus Geboeid
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, P. C Boutens
Date unknownDutch
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The Cricket on the Hearth
Charles Dickens
1846
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Theocritos' Idyller
301 BCE-261 BCE Theocritus, Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Date unknownSwedish
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Thet Oera Linda Bok, Naar een Handschrift uit de Dertiende Eeuw
Jan Gerhardus Ottema
Date unknown
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Άλκηστις
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, George B Tsokopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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Κύκλωψ
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, George B Tsokopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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Ομήρου Οδύσσεια Τόμος Β
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Iakovos Polylas
Date unknownGreek
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Ali Baba en de veertig roovers (Verhaal uit de Duizend en een Nacht)
J. W Gerhard, Herbert Granville Fell
Date unknownDutch
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Ali Baba ja neljäkymmentä rosvoa
Anonymous
Date unknownFinnish
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Drakula: angol regény
Bram Stoker
Date unknownHungarian
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Duizend en één Nacht. Arabische vertellingen. Eerste deel
Anonymous
Date unknownDutch
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Elektra
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Gergely Csiky
Date unknownHungarian
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Jean-Christophe Pariisissa III
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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Kalevala (1835) 2. Osa
Elias Lönnrot
Date unknownFinnish