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
- Read free
Histoire du juif-errant
M.P.B
1872French
- Read free
Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme
Diego Durán
1867Spanish
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Indianische sagen von der nord-pacifischen küste Amerikas
Franz Boas
1895German
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Jankiel Filut
B Szwajcer
1887Polish
- Read free
Kinderleben, oder, Das Märchen ohne Ende.
Friedrich Wilhelm Carové, Sarah Austin
1834
- Read free
Kissa Laila Wa Majnu
Nizami
1875Persian
- Read free
Kleine schriften
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
1844German
- Read free
Kleinere Sagenkriese
Gustav Schwab
1838German
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L'Ercole in Tebe
Giovanni Andrea Moniglia
1671Italian
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L'amfione
Paolo Magni
1698Italian
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L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae cum notis integris Johannis Frederici Gronovii
Joannes Fredericus Gronovius, Johann Caspar Schröder, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
1728Latin
- Read free
La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda
Abel Henri Joseph Bergaigne, Abel Bergaigne, Maurice Bloomfield
1878French
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La rose dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge
Charles Joret
1892French
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La vie de saint Gilles
Guillaume de Berneville, Françoise Laurent
1881French
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Le Château-Bigot
J. M. Le Moine
1889French
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Le Rig-véda et les origines de la mythologie indo-europé-enne
Paul Regnaud
1892French
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Le Robinson Suisse; ou, Journal d’un Pere de Famille Naufrage avec ses Engfans, Vol. I
Mme. de Montolieu
1814French
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Le folk-lore du Poitou
Léon Pineau
1892French
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Le miracle de Théophile
Rutebeuf
1838French
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Legends
Ludwik Straszewicz
1899Polish
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Les fabliaux
Joseph Bédier
1893French
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Les voyages de Cyrus
Ramsay Chevalier
1727French
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Lettres Sur Les Contes De Fees, Attribues A Perrault Et Sur L’origine De La Feerie
Perrault Charles
1826French
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Leyendas americanas
José Güell y Renté
1856Spanish