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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Les Histoires merveilleuses, ou les Petits Peureux corrigés
Antoine Antoine
Date unknownFrench
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Légendes pour les enfants
Paul Boiteau d'Ambly, Bertall
Date unknownFrench
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Metsänväkeä
Veikko Korhonen
Date unknownFinnish
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Mutter Natur erzählt
Carl Ewald, Hermann Kiy, Willy Planck
Date unknownGerman
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Pericla Navarchi Magonis; sive, Expeditio Phoenicia Annis Ante Christum Mille
David-Léon Cahun, Arcadius Avellanus
Date unknownLatin
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Prinzeßchen im Walde
Sibylle Olfers
Date unknownGerman
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Ratón Pérez: cuento infantil
Luis Coloma, Mariano Pedrero
Date unknownSpanish
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Rimpisuon usvapatsas: Seikkailukertomus Pohjan periltä
Alfred Emil Ingman
Date unknownFinnish
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Runoja lapsille 5
Abraham Pietikäinen
Date unknownFinnish
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Satuja lapsille luettavaksi
Anni Swan
Date unknownFinnish
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Siskosarjalle
Vera Hjelt, Hilda Maria Käkikoski
Date unknownFinnish
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Suomen kansan eläinsatuja: Ensimmäinen sarja suomalaisia satuja lapsille
Iivo Härkönen
Date unknownFinnish
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Szopka
Artur Oppman, Antoni Piotrowski
Date unknownPolish
The Archaeology of Shamanism
Neil Price, Neil S. Price
2001
The Gnostic Imagination
Deutsch, Nathaniel Deutsch
1995
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Uroita: Kreikkalaisia sankaritaruja
Charles Kingsley
Date unknownFinnish
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Van het toovervischje
Lambertus Cornelis Steenhuizen
Date unknownDutch
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Zonnestralen in School en Huis
Henriette Dietz, Katharina Leopold
Date unknownDutch
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Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα
Penelope Stephanou Delta
Date unknownGreek
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Denkwürdigkeiten, Erzählungen und Sagen von Gross-Glogau und den umliegenden Ortschaften
1861German
Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity
Roelof van den Broek
1996
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The nightingale
Hans Christian Andersen, Mary J Newill, Henry William Dulcken
Date unknown
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Bilder-Akademie für die Jugend
1784French
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Petite mythologie
1838French