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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Gesammelte Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen
1847German
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Geschichte und System der Altdeutschen Religion
Wilhelm Müller
1844German
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Geschichten und sagen aus der Schweiz
Johann Jakob Reithard
1853German
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Griechische Götterlehre
Emil Braun
1854German
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Götterlehre, oder, Mythologische Dichtungen der Alten
Karl Philipp Moritz
1791German
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Handbuch der klassischen Literatur
Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1783German
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Heinrici Schaevii Chilonio-Cimbri Mythologia deorum ac heroum
Heinricus Schaevius
1700Latin
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Hessische sagen
Johann Wilhelm Wolf
1853German
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Hexenprocess und glauben, pfaffen und teufel
Heinrich Hössli
1892German
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Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poëtes, des philosophes, et de Moïse
Noël Antoine Pluche
1739French
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Histoire pittoresque de la franc-maçonnerie et des sociétés secrètes anciennes et modernes
François-Timoléon Bègue- Clavel
1843French
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Hygini quae hodie extant
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Mythographus Hyginus
1674Latin
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Instruction à la France sur la vérité de l'histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix
Gabriel Naudé
1623NOT
Intimate Alien
David J. Halperin, David David Joel Halperin
2020
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Irmin, seine Saule, seine Strasse und sein Wagen
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1817German
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Japanische Thee-geschichten
Ferdinand Adalbert Junker von Langegg
1884German
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L'oiseau bleu
Marie-Catherine Le Jumelle de Berneville comtesse d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville baronne d' Aulnoy
1811French
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La contagion sacrée
Paul Henri Thiry baron d'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach
1768French
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Les aventures de Télemaque, fils d'Ulysse
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Gabriel Richard
1782French
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Les ceremonies chinoises conformé a l'idolatrie grecque et romaine
Noël Alexandre
1721French
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Lübische Geschichten und Sagen
Etnst Deecke
1852German
Magic, witchcraft, and curing
John Middleton
1967
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Magyar mythologia
Kabos Kandra, Kabos Jakab Kandra
1897NOT
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Mecklenburgische Sagen
Friedrich Studemund
1848German