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
Legacy of Love
Joanna Trollope
1983
Neon Gods
Katee Robert
2021
Phantoms
Dean Koontz
1983
- Read free
Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp
Anonymous
Date unknown
Finders Keepers
Sharon Sala
2003
- Read free
Old-Time Stories
Charles Perrault, W. Heath Robinson, Alfred Edwin Johnson
Date unknown
- Read free
American Fairy Tales
L. Frank Baum
Date unknown
Chesapeake Blue
Nora Roberts
2002
- Read free
Seltsame Geschichten (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelström / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1890German
Dictionary Of Gnosticism
Andrew Phillip Smith
2009
Esoteric Secrets Of Surrealism
Patrick Lepetit
2014
Norse goddess magic - trancework, mythology, and ritual
Alice Karlsdottir
2015
Tennessee Ghosts
Jim O'Rear
2008
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A Double Story
George MacDonald
Date unknown
Chapter The Gypsies as the original sin of modernity
Božidar Jezernik
2023
Chapter: 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660–1832' from book: Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
Jonathan Barry
2017
Devil's Oak
A.Miller, Mary Carroll Leoson
2025
Epistemic Issues in Non-classical Religious Belief
Hans Van Eyghen
2023
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Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
William Trowbridge Larned, Jean de La Fontaine, John Rae
Date unknown
- Read free
Northern Archaeology and Cosmology
Vesa‐Pekka Herva, Antti Lahelma
2019
Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670–2020). Commemorating A Long-Forgotten Masterpiece
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Henri Krop
2022
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The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2020
The Phoenix Complex
Michael Marder
2023
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The Tales of Mother Goose
Charles Perrault, Michael Vincent O'Shea, Gustave Doré, D. J Munro, Charles Welsh
Date unknown