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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Australian Tales of the Bush
Hamilton Mackinnon, Marcus Clarke
1897
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Ba jeslovny kalenda r slovansky , c ili, Pozu statky pohansko- sva tec ny ch obr adu v slovansky ch
Igna c Jan Hanus
1860Czech
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Baba Ega; ili, Sbornik ot razlichni vi︠e︡rvanii︠a︡, narodni li︠e︡kuvanii︠a︡, magii ...
Petr Tsv Li︠u︡benov
1887Bulgarian
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Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs
Abram Smythe Palmer
1897
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Baitál Pachísí
Hermann Oesterley
1873German
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Balder und der weisse Hirsch: Ein Beitrag zur Deutschen Mythologie/ von Friedrich Losch
Friedrich Losch
1892German
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Ballet auff das erfreulichste Vermahlungs-Festin
1689German
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Barlaam und Joasaph
Ernst Wilhelm Adalbert Kuhn
1893German
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Barlaam und Josaphat
Paul Meyer, Gui de Cambrai
1864German
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Barlaam und Josaphat
Rudolf von Ems
1843German
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Barlaams ok Josaphats saga: En religiös romantisk fortælling om Barlaam og ...
Rudolph Keyser, C. R. Unger
1851Icelandic
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Bayerische sagen und bräuche. Beitrag zur deutschen mythologie: Beiträge zur deutschen Mythologie
Friedrich Panzer
1848German
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Beiträge zur volkskunde
Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach
1896German
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Beschreibung der Gema lde des Polygnotos von Thasos in der Lesche zu Delphi
Carl Robert
1888German
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Beschryvinge van de ry-bende ofte cavalcade
J. van den Berghen
1770Dutch
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Bibliographie des chansons, fabliaux, contes en vers et en prose, facéties, pièces comiques et ..
Emmanuel-Louis-Nicolas Viollet-le-Duc
1859French
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Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux Arabes, publiés dans l'Europe chrétienne de 1810 à 1885
Victor Charles Chauvin
1892French
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Bibliographie des traditions et de la littérature populaire des Frances d'outre-mer
H[enri] Gaidoz
1886French

Bigfoot
Joshua Blu Buhs
2009
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Bijdrage tot de kennis van het eiland Bali
Frederik Albert Liefrinck
1889Dutch
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Bragur: Ein litterarisches Magazin der Teutschen und nordischen Vorzeit...
[name Missing]
1797German
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Breue historia dell'inuentione della S. Croce, et de i Sacri Chiodi
Giovanni Francesco Besozzo
1603Italian
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Canonical histories and apocryphal legends relating to the New Testament represented in drawings with a Latin text
Antonio Maria Ceriani
1873Latin
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Cardiomorpheoseos
Francesco Pona
1645Latin