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
Leola and the honeybears
Melodye Rosales
1999
The Legend of the Persian Carpet
Tomie dePaola
1993
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
1981
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Roger Lancelyn Green
1967
The Book Of Three
Lloyd Alexander
1964
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Eugenios Trivizas
1993
Tony's Bread
Tomie dePaola
1989
Coppelia
Margot Fonteyn, Léo Delibes
1870
The Outlaws of Sherwood
Robin McKinley
1988
The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan
2015
The mitten
Jan Brett
1989
The white stag
Kate Seredy
1937
Three Billy-Goats Gruff
Ellen Appleby
1985
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
2011
Fear Street - What Holly Heard
Robert Lawrence Stine
1996
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jan Brett
1987
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths
Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, Ned Hoopes
1967
Princess Furball
Charlotte S. Huck
1989
Rose and the Beast
Francesca Lia Block
2000
Rotkäppchen
Charles Perrault, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1945
The Greek gods
Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, Ned Hoopes
1966
The Polar Bear Son
Lydia Dabcovich
1996
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, John Glore
1992
The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin
1978