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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Der Goldene Topf
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Date unknownGerman
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Le Vaisseau fantôme (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Richard Wagner, Charles Nuitter
Date unknownFrench
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Prometheus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date unknownGerman
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
Date unknown
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Ευμενίδες
526 BCE-457 BCE Aeschylus, Ioannes N. Grypares
Date unknownGreek
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幽明錄
Yiqing Liu, Wang Genlin
Date unknownChinese
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Walter William Skeat
Date unknownENM
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Die Nymphe des Brunnens
Johann Karl August Musäus, Hans Fraungruber, Ignatius Taschner
Date unknownGerman
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Die drei Nüsse
Clemens Brentano
Date unknownGerman
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La Odisea
751? BCE-651? BCE Homer, John Flaxman, Walter Paget, Luis Segalá y Estalella
Date unknownSpanish
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Le roman de la rose - Tome IV
de Lorris Guillaume, de Meun Jean
Date unknownFrench
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The King of the Golden River
John Ruskin
Date unknown
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西遊記
Cheng'en Wu
Date unknownChinese
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A trachisi nők
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Gergely Csiky
Date unknownHungarian
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Classic Myths
Mary Catherine Judd, Angus MacDonall
Date unknown
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Latin Vulgate, Esther: Liber Esther
Anonymous
Date unknownLatin
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Le temple de Gnide
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Charles Nodier
Date unknownFrench
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穆天子传
Pu Guo
Date unknownChinese
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Cjantaclàr e Partelote
Geoffrey Chaucer, Ermes Primiano Culos
Date unknownFUR
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De Gouden Vaas
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Karel Johan Hendrik Wasch
Date unknownDutch
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Eneida; v.1 de 2
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil, Miguel Antonio Caro
Date unknownSpanish
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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Gaston Leroux
Date unknownFrench
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Les dames vertes
George Sand
Date unknownFrench
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Chitra: Ein Spiel in einem Aufzug
Rabindranath Tagore, Elisabeth Wolff-Merck
Date unknownGerman