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
The Tailypo
Joanna Galdone
1977
The rough-face girl
Rafe Martin
1992
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears
Verna Aardema
1975
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
1968
The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1896
Where the spirits ride the wind
Felicitas D Goodman
1990
Anansi the Spider
Gerald McDermott
1972
Chocolate Touch
Patrick Skene Catling
1952
Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron
2019
Fear Street Cheerleaders - The First Evil
Robert Lawrence Stine
1992
Flying Horse
Jane B. Mason
1999
Ghosts!
Alvin Schwartz, Victoria Chess
1990
How the camel got his hump
Rudyard Kipling
1898
Lights Out
Robert Lawrence Stine
1991
Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery
Ann M. Martin
1988
The Frog Prince
Edith Tarcov, James Marshall
1974
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Paul Galdone
1974
Mushroom in the Rain
Mirra Ginsburg
1974
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Rick Riordan
2006
Remember Me
Christopher Pike
1989
Revolting rhymes
Roald Dahl
1982
Three Little Pigs
Steven Kellogg
1997
Kissing the Witch
Emma Donoghue
1993
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014