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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Sanchoniatho's Phœnician history
Sanchuniathon, Richard Cumberland, Eratosthenes, of Caesarea Eusebius, Squier Payne
1720
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Tracts
Francis Wise
1738
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Travels in various countries of the East
William Ouseley
1819
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Aladdin
Dean & Son
1854
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Bayerische sagen und Bräuche
Friedrich Panzer
1848German
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Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie
Johann Wilhelm Wolf, Wilhelm Mannhardt
1852German
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Publii Virgilii Maronis Carmina omnia
Publius Vergilius Maro, John Bond, Dübner, Fr., 1802-1867, editor, Virgil
1858
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Rural sports
William Barker Daniel
1801
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Undine, eine Erzählung
Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Kar La Motte-Fouqué, J Bastin, La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de
1845
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Griechische mythologie
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, Eduard Gerhard
1854German
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Märchen und Sagen aus Wälschtirol
Christian Schneller
1867German
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Sagen und Bilder aus Westfalen
Gisbert Freiherr von Vincke, Gisbert Vincke, Gisbert von Vincke
1856German
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The Nights of Straparola
Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Edward Robert Hughes, Gerolamo Morlino, William George Waters
1894
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Erzählungen und Schwänke
Hans Lambel
1872German
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Hebräische Mythologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
Georg Lorenz Bauer
1802German
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La Finlande
Louis Léouzon Le Duc
1845French
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Le foyer breton
Émile Souvestre
1800French
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Les Mille et un jours
François Pétis de La Croix, Emperor of Russia Nicholas II, Russian Imperial Collection DLC, Jules Sainte-Croix Pajot
1826French
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Les images ou tableavx de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs et les statues de Callistrate
Philostratus the Athenian, Blaise de Vigenère, Thomas sieur d'Embry] [Artus, Antoine Caron, Léonard Gaultier, Callistratus, Philostratus the Lemnian, 3rd or 4th cent. Statuæ. French Callistratus, Jaspar Isaac, Thomas de Leu
1614French
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Mace's fairy book
Jean Mace, Mary Mary Louise Booth, 1815-1894, Mary Louise Booth
1867
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Märchen und erzählungen der Suaheli
Carl Velten
1898SWA
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Prince Darling and other stories
Andrew Lang
1890
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Tractatus apologeticus integritatem Societatis de Rosea Cruce defendens
Robert Fludd, Adam Michael Birkholz
1617NOT
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Contes populaires berbères
René Basset, Basset, René, 1855-1924, ed. and tr
1887French