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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Mastr'Impicca
Vittorio Imbriani
Date unknownItalian
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Médée: tragédie
Hilaire Bernard de Requeleyne Longepierre
Date unknownFrench
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Rabinal-Achi
abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
Date unknownMYN
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The Bible, King James Version, Complete
Date unknown
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Αντιγόνη
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Konstantinos Chrestomanos
Date unknownGreek
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Χοηφόροι
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Ioannes N. Grypares
Date unknownGreek
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水滸傳
Nai'an Shi
Date unknownChinese
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Agamemnon: Murhenäytelmä
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Kaarlo Koskimies
Date unknownFinnish
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Das Nibelungenlied
Unknown
Date unknownGerman
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Euripides' Elektra
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Date unknownSwedish
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Iphigeneia i Aulis
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Date unknownSwedish
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Jean-Christophe III
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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Jean-Christophe IV
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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Jean-Christophe, Volume 4
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFrench
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Koning Oedipus, van Sophocles: tragedie
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Willem Cornelis Royaards
Date unknownDutch
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L'Odyssée
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Leconte de Lisle, Antoine Calbet
Date unknownFrench
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Les misérables Tome IV: L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis
Victor Hugo
Date unknownFrench
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Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean
Victor Hugo
Date unknownFrench
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Pyhän Julianuksen legenda
Gustave Flaubert, Maija Koskenniemi
Date unknownFinnish
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Żywila: Powiastka z Dziejów Litewskich
Adam Mickiewicz, Ladislas Mickiewicz
Date unknownFrench
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Δάφνης και Χλόη
Longus, Voutierides, El. P.
Date unknownGreek
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Ομήρου Οδύσσεια Τόμος Α
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, Iakovos Polylas
Date unknownGreek
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Aeneidi
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Konstantin Siitonen
Date unknownFinnish
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Comme quoi Napoléon n'a jamais existé
Gustave Davois, J.-Jean-Baptiste Pérès
Date unknownFrench