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
Catalogus sanctorum [et] gestorum eoru[m] ex diuersis voluminibus collectus
Petrus de Natalibus
1506Latin
- Read free
Ceský lid
Ústav pro etnografii a folkloristiku
1892Czech
- Read free
Christianity in Ceylon: Its Introduction and Progress Under the Portuguese, the Dutch, the ..
James Emerson Tennent
1850
- Read free
Chronik der Residenzstadt Hannover von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart
Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae
1859NOT
- Read free
Cien refranes andaluces de meteorologia, cronologia, agricultura y economia rural
Francisco Rodríguez Marín
1894Spanish
- Read free
Comment naissent les mythes: Les sources védiques du Petit Poucet--La légende hindoue du déluge ..
Paul Regnaud
1897French
- Read free
Conférence de la fable avec l'histoire sainte
Guillaume de Lavaur
1730French
- Read free
Congrès international des traditions populaires: 1. session, Paris 1889. Compte rendu des séances
International Folk-lore Congress
1891French
- Read free
Contes arabes. Histoire des dix vizirs (Bakhtiar-nameh)
René Basset
1883French
- Read free
Contes de la Cascogne
Jean-Franc ʹois Blade
1895French
- Read free
Contes des provinces de France
Paul Sébillot
1884French
- Read free
Contes ligures
James Bruyn Andrews
1892French
- Read free
Contes populaires de Lorraine
Emmanuel Georges Cosquin
1887French
- Read free
Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne
Paul Sébillot
1881French
- Read free
Contes populaires des Bassoutos
E. Jacottet
1895French
- Read free
Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Afrique de Sud)
Édouard Jacottet
1895French
- Read free
Contes populaires inédits de la vallée du Nil
Yaʻqūb Artīn
1895French
- Read free
Contes populaires malgaches
Gabriel Ferrand
1893French
- Read free
Coutumes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne
Paul Sébillot
1886French
- Read free
Cristiani ed ebrei nel medio evo: quadro di costumi ; con un ̀appendice di ..
Giuseppe Levi
1866Italian
- Read free
Cristoforo Colombo e il viaggio di Ulisse nel poema di Dante
Gaspare Finali
1895Italian
- Read free
Cuentos oraciones: Adivinas y refranes popularies é infantiles recogidos
Fernán Caballero
1878Spanish
- Read free
Cuentos, oraciones, adivinas y refranes populares é infantiles
Fernán Caballero
1878Spanish
- Read free
Curiosità popolari tradizionali
Giuseppe Pitrè
1885Italian