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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Mythen und Bräuche des Volkes in Oesterreich: Als Beitrag zur deutschen ..
Theodor Vernaleken
1859German
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Mythen und sagen Tirols
Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Alpenburg, Johann Nepomuk von Alpenburg
1857German
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Mythographi graeci
Apollodorus of Athens, Joannes Pediasimus, Antoninus, Antonius Liberalis, Parthenius, Palaephatus, Eratosthenes, Richard Anton Wagner, Heraclitus mythographus, Edgar Martini, Paul Sakolowski, Alexander Olivieri, Nicola Festa
1894Greek
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Mélanges de mythologie et de linguistique
Michel Bréal
1877French
Navaho witchcraft
Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, Clyde Kluckhohn
1944
- Read free
Neues mythologisches Wörterbuch
Paul Friedrich Achat Nitsch, Friedrich Gotthilf Klopfer
1793German
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Om Ragnaroksmythen og dens betydning i den oldnordiske religion
Martin Johannes Hammerich, Martin Hammerich
1836German
Open graves, open minds
Sam George, Bill Hughes
2013
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Orendel, Wilhelm von Orense und Robert der Teufel
Emil Benezé
1897German
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Parabeln, Legenden und Gedanken aus Thalmud und Midrasch
Giuseppe Levi
1877German
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Phantasieen und Märchen
Isolde Kurz
1890German
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Philologemata abstrusa de pollice
Johannes Praetorius
1677Latin
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Polnische Volkssagen und Märchen
Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki, Fryderyk Henryk Lewestam
1839German
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Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie
Karl Otfried Müller
1825German
Reincarnation in Philo of Alexandria
Sami Yli-Karjanmaa
2015
Rethinking "Gnosticism"
Michael Allen Williams
1996
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Réponse à l'histoire des oracles de Mr. De Fontenelle de l'Academie Francoise
Jean François Baltus
1707French
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Romantische märchen und sagen
Ludwig Bechstein
1855German
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Sagaenbibliothek des skandinavischen Alterthums in Auszügen
Peter Erasmus Müller
1816German
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Sagen aus Kärnten
Jakob Rappold
1887German
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Sagen aus Tirol
Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle
1850German
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Sagen aus dem Paznaun und dessen Nachbarschaft
[name Missing]
1894German
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Sagen der grafschaft Mansfeld und ihrer nächsten umgebung
Hermann Grössler
1880German
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Sagen und legenden der Bayern
Adalbert Müller, Franz Xaver Müller
1833German