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
A Touch Of Ruin
Scarlett St. Clair
2020
Believing in magic
Stuart A. Vyse, T. Gotterbarm, Manuel Cuesta Aguirre
1997
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
1984
Inner Harbor
Nora Roberts
1998
Of wolves and men
Barry Lopez
1978
Salute the dark
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2010
The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
2001
The mare's egg
Carole Spray
1981
Dragons of Summer Flame
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
1995
Dragons of a Lost Star
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
2001
El Amo Del Juego/Masters of the Game
Sidney Sheldon
1905
Hold the dream
Barbara Taylor Bradford
1625
Indaba, my children
Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
1964
Kane & Abel
Jeffrey Archer
1979
Ormond, or, The secret witness
Charles Brockden Brown
1799
Rising Tides
Nora Roberts
1998
The Magic of Krynn
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
1987
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood
2005
The Second Generation
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
1989
The folktale
Stith Thompson
1946
The life of St. Katharine of Alexandria
John Capgrave
1893
Whispers
Dean Koontz
1960
A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair
2019
Ethan of Athos
Lois McMaster Bujold
1986