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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Selected popular tales
Henry Cabot Lodge, Juvenile Collection DLC
1881
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The Borderer's Table Book, Or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance ..
Moses Aaron Richardson
1846
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe, Ann Ward Radcliffe
1794
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The Thebaid of Statius
Publius Papinius Statius, William Lillington Lewis, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection DLC
1767
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The wisedome of the ancients
Francis Bacon, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby, Edward Smith Stanley Derby, Arthur Gorges
1619
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Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare
1593
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Walhall
Felix Dahn, Dahn, Therese von Droste-Hülshoff, Frau, Johannes Gehrts, Therese Dahn
1884German
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Die ethischen deutschen Sagen
Nikolaus Hocker
1857German
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Endymion: A Poetic Romance
John Keats
1818
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Hieroglyphica, of, Merkbeelden der oude volkeren
Romeyn de Hooghe, Hendrik van den Bos, Jacobus Houbraken, Jan Wandelaar, Arnoldus Henricus Westerhoff, Henricus Bos
1735Dutch
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Karl Wilhelm Ramlers Kurzgefasste Mythologie, oder, Lehre von den fabelhaften Göttern, Halbgöttern und Helden des Alterthums
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
1790German
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Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de gliantichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1556Italian
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Legendary tales of the Highlands
Thomas Dick Lauder
1841
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Lilith
Ada Langworthy Collier
1885
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Mythology & monuments of ancient Athens
Pausanias, active approximately Pausanias, Jane Ellen Harrison, Margaret de Gaudrion Merrifield Verrall
1890
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Popular epics of the middle ages of the Norse-German and Carlovingian cycles
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
1865
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The Beetle. A Mystery
Richard Marsh
1897
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The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy
John Claridge
1744
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Mythologie et les fables expliquées par l'histoire
Banier M. l'abbé
1739
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Nordiske fortids sagaer
Carl Christian Rafn
1829Danish
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Osservazioni sui monumenti delle belle arti che rappresentano Leda
Carlo Fèa
1802Italian
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The political history of the devil, as well ancient as modern
Daniel Defoe
1726
Hidden animals
Michael Newton, Michael Dawn Newton
2009
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Histoire du ciel, où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie
Noël Antoine Pluche, [Pluche, Noël Antoine], 1688-1761. [from old catalog], Pre-1801 Imprint Collection DLC [from old catalog]
1739French