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

The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen, Johannes Larsen, R. P. Keigwin
1800

Beware!
Robert Lawrence Stine
2002

Le chat botté
Charles Perrault
1865
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Millions of cats
Wanda Gág
Date unknown

Demons, spirits, witches
Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs, Eszter Csonka-Takács
2005

The emperor's new clothes
Hans Christian Andersen, Ève Tharlet, Jeffrey Stewart Timmins, Stephanie True Peters
1945

The Wanderings of Odysseus
Rosemary Sutcliff
1995

The uses of enchantment
Bruno Bettelheim
1976
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Ghosts in the attic
Florentin Smarandache
2015

Adelita
Tomie dePaola
2002

The Clown of God
Tomie dePaola
1978

The Mark of Athena
Rick Riordan
2011

The Three Little Pigs
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1962
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Alt-Münchner Wahr- und Denkzeichen
Franz Trautmann
1864German
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Altgriechische Märchen in der Odyssee
Georg Karl Cornelius Gerland, Georg Gerland
1869German

Ariadne's thread
Shekhinah Mountainwater
1991
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Aufsätze über Märchen und Volkslieder
Reinhold Köhler
1894NOT
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Aus dem Lande des Sonnenaufgangs
Paulus Cassel
1885German
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Bajki, fraszki, podania, przysłowia i pieśni na Rusi
Sadok Barącz, X. Sadok Barącz
1866Polish
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Bamberger legenden und sagen
Andreas Haupt
1842German
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Beiträge zur Griechischen Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte
Otto Crusius
1886German
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Braunschweiger Volkskunde
Richard Andree
1896German
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Christenthum, volksglaube und volksbrauch
Julius Lippert
1882German
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Conformita delle cerimonie chinesi, colla idolatria greca, e romana
Noël Alexandre
1700NOT