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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Jean-Christophe IX
Romain Rolland
Date unknownFinnish
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Satyros oder Der vergötterte Waldteufel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date unknownGerman
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Singoalla
Viktor Rydberg, Juhani Aho
Date unknownFinnish
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Ίων
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Polyvios Demetrakopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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枕中記
Jiji Shen
Date unknownChinese
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Aeneidos
71 BCE-20 BCE Virgil
Date unknownLatin
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Der Fliegende Hollaender
Richard Wagner
Date unknownGerman
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Οιδίπους επί Κολωνώ
496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Voutierides, El. P.
Date unknownGreek
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Edda: taruopillinen alkuosa; Gylfin harhanäky (Gylfaginning)
Snorri Sturluson
Date unknownFinnish
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Le fauteuil hanté
Gaston Leroux
Date unknownFrench
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Mjallhvít: Æfintýri Handa Börnum
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, M. Grímsson
Date unknownIcelandic
The Lurker at the Threshold
August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft
1945
Works and Days
Hesiod
1559
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Kullervo
Aleksis Kivi
Date unknownFinnish
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Kylmä sydän
Wilhelm Hauff, Teuvo Pakkala
1910Finnish
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Libahunt: Draama wiies vaatuses
August Kitzberg
Date unknownEstonian
Myth-O-Mania
Kate McMullan
2002
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Apologie d'Homere
Homère, Jean Boivin
1715French
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Helena
481? BCE-407 BCE Euripides, Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Date unknownSwedish
A book of folk-lore
Sabine Baring-Gould
1970
Oral epics from Africa
John William Johnson, Thomas A. Hale, Stephen Paterson Belcher
1997
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith
Date unknown
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De plurimis claris selectisque mulieribus pus prope divinum novissime congestum [Ed. Albertus de Placentia et Augustinus de Casali]
Jacopo Filippo Foresti
1497Latin
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Fabeln von Lüthy
Urs Joseph Fidel Lüthy
1787German