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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La Falo de Uŝero-Domo
Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin Grobe
Date unknownEsperanto
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La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio
Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pride
Date unknownEsperanto
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Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Claude Debussy
Date unknownFrench
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Le Râmâyana - tome premier
Valmiki, Hippolyte Fauche
Date unknownFrench
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Metamorfóseos o Transformaciones (2 de 4)
44 BCE-18? Ovid, José Asensio, Francisco Crivell
Date unknownSpanish
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Musta kääpiö
Walter Scott, Julius Krohn
Date unknownFinnish
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Oedipus király
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Gergely Csiky
Date unknownHungarian
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Romance de lobos, comedia barbara
Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Date unknownSpanish
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[Pausaniou Ellados periegesis] = Pausaniae Descriptio Græciæ
active approximately Pausanias, Ludwig August Dindorf
Date unknownLatin
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Ομήρου Οδύσσεια Τόμος Δ
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Iakovos Polylas
Date unknownGreek
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遊仙窟
Zhuo Zhang
Date unknownChinese
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Ajas: Szomorujáték
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Gergely Csiky
Date unknownHungarian
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Der Spiegel des Cyprianus
Theodor Storm
Date unknownGerman
Der Tatzelwurm
Ulrich Magin
2020German
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Die unheilbringende Krone
Ferdinand Raimund
Date unknownGerman
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Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiæ. Pars Prima: Ilias
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Ambroise Firmin-Didot
Date unknownLatin
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Homeri Carmina et Cycli Epici Reliquiæ. Pars Secunda: Odyssea
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Ambroise Firmin-Didot
Date unknownLatin
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Jean-Christophe II
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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Jean-Christophe Volume 3
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFrench
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Jean-Christophe X
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
Killing the dead
John Blair
2025
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La strega, ovvero, degli inganni de' demoni: dialogo
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Turino Turini
Date unknownItalian
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Le Râmâyana - tome second
Valmiki, Hippolyte Fauche
Date unknownFrench
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Le roman de la rose - Tome III
de Lorris Guillaume, de Meun Jean
Date unknownFrench