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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Schau-Platz vieler ungereimten Meynungen und Erzehlungen ..
Georg Wilhelm Wegner
1735German
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Gloria Flaherty
1992
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Sláwa bohyně a půwod gména Slawůw čili Slawjanůw
Ján Kollár
1839Czech
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Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu den Mittelenglischen Legenden aus Gloucestershire
Friedrich Mohr
1888German
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Studien uber die Entstehung der nordischen Gotter und Heldensagen ...
Sophus Bugge
1881German
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Studien zu den Volksmärchen der Deutschen von J.K.A. Musäus
Richard Andrae
1897German
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Suite de la Réponse a l'Histoire des oracles
Jean François Baltus
1708French
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Tage-Reisen von Gross-Cairo nach dem Berge Sinai und wieder zurük
Robert Clayton
1754German
Tatsinda
Elizabeth Enright, Lyssa Browne
1963
The alchemical feminine
M. E. Warlick
2025
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Theo-mythologia historica, das ist, Gründlich- und historische Ausslegung der poetischen Götter-Fabeln
Charles Louis de Launay
1740German
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Theologie des Heidenthums
Ferdinand Stiefelhagen
1858German
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Thesaurus fidei
Friedrich Grick
1619German
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Thüringische Sagen und Volksmährchen
Carl Ludloff, Friedrich Carl Ludloff
1822German
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Tobiae Pfanneri systema theologiae gentilis purioris
Tobias Pfanner
1679Latin
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Traité de la mythologie
Jean Joseph Lionnois
1783NOT
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Ueber Jesuiten, Freymaurer und deutsche Rosencreutzer
Adolf Freiherr von Knigge, Freemasons. Loge Archimedes zu der Drei Reissbretern, Adolph Knigge
1781German
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Ueber das Wesen und die Behandlung der Mythologie
Gottfried Hermann
1819German
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Ueber religiöse bildung, mythologie und philosophie der Hindus
Johann Gottlieb Rhode
1827German
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Volkskunde von Siegelau im Amt Waldkirch in Baden
A. Goetz
1897German
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Vollst©Þndiges Gesangbuch f©ơr Freimaurer
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection
1804German
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Vollständiges Wörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker
Wilhelm Vollmer, Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Vollmer
1851German
Witchcraft in Early Modern England
James Sharpe
2014
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Zeus
C. L. Dicke
1850NOT