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
The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland
William Grant Stewart
1823
- Read free
The real history of the Rosicrucians founded on their own manifestoes
Arthur Edward Waite
1887
- Read free
The spirit land
Samuel Bulfinch Emmons, Samuel Samuel Bulfinch Emmons
1857
- Read free
Vikram and the Vampire
Richard Francis Burton, Ernest Henry Griset, Isabel Lady Burton, Richard Burton, Isabel Burton
1870
- Read free
Witch stories
Eliza Lynn Linton, Leona Bowman Carpenter Collection of English and American Literature. NcD, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD
1861
- Read free
Yorkshire oddities, incidents and strange events
Sabine Baring-Gould
1874
- Read free
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Lee and Shepard, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, John Wilson and Son, Charles Dickens, Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Maisha Books, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Storker, M. Bram Stocker, M. Philippe Ballin, Eve Paul-Margueritte in 1920, Bram Stolker, Bram BRAM STOKER, Braum Stoker, BramStoker, Warren Publishing Company, Esis Nem, Paper Mill Press Bram Stoker, Books Tor, Gustavo Aguilera, Classical Comics, Nik Maguire, Moon Dragon, Collectifs, Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Hutchinson Emily, Period Time Publishing, D. P. Stevens Edition, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Classic Collections, Stoker, Heinz Widtmann, Yordi Abreu, Bi Classics, Alex Stewart, Si tuo ke, BRAM STOCKER - E. NOBATI, Tabib Haider, Bram Stroker, Matthew Corrigan, Bram Stocker, Fernando Fernández, Anna Gasol Trullols, Andrew Struthers, Bram Bram, HellBound Books Publishing LLC, Christina Widmann, Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Howard Pyle, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, Howard Bloom, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Danide, Núria Pradas, Carmen Gil, Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Mario Montalbán, Leonard Wolf, ClassyBookRead, Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink, Fay Weldon, Bess Georges, Alba Pagán, David Stuart Davies, David Rogers, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier, Abraham Stoker, Sarah Prescott, Alex Rouse, Bram Stoke, A. Nessi, Liz Lochhead, Lewis; Tenniel Carroll
1800
- Read free
Popular tales from the Norse
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, George Webbe Dasent, 1812-1885, 1813-1882
1859
- Read free
Tales of old Japan
A. B. Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
1871
- Read free
On the truths contained in popular superstitions
Herbert Mayo
1851
- Read free
Apollonius Rhodius
Apollonius Rhodius, Robert Cooper Seaton, Apollonius, Rhodius|* Apollonius Rhodius
1550
- Read free
Abraxas
Albrecht Dieterich, Hermann Usener
1891German
- Read free
Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition
Charles Godfrey Leland
1892
- Read free
More Celtic fairy tales
Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
1894
- Read free
Neugesammelte Volkssagen aus dem Lande Baden und den angrenzenden Gegenden
Bernhard Baader
1851German
- Read free
Vampires and vampirism
Dudley Wright
1914
- Read free
Wonderful stories for children
Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Botham Howitt, Mary Howitt, L. ill Hutschenreuter, Vilhelm Pedersen, J. H. Stickney, W. Heath Robinson, H. B. Mrs Paull, 1825-1916 Eleanor Vere Boyle, James Burn & Company. bnd, Leighton Bros. ltg, Augusta. trl Plesner, Marston Sampson Low, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, Harrison Weir
1800
- Read free
Angels in art
Clara Erskine Clement Waters
1898
- Read free
Bacon's essays and Wisdom of the ancients
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, Alexander Spiers
1884
- Read free
Curious creatures in zoology
John Ashton
1890
- Read free
Goblin tales of Lancashire
James Bowker, Charles Gliddon
1878
- Read free
Irish fairy tales
William Butler Yeats, Jack Butler Yeats, Jack Jack Butler Yeats
1892
- Read free
Poseidon's paradise
Elizabeth G. Birkmaier, Clemens Publishing Co. bkp CU-BANC
1892
- Read free
The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief
Hans Peter Broedel
2003