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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Danske ordsprog og mundheld, skjaemtsprog, stedlige talemȧder, ordspil og samtaleord
Evald Tang Kristensen
1890Danish
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Danske sagn: som de har lydt i folkemunde
Evald Tang Kristensen
1892Danish
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Dante, secondo la tradizione e i novellatori
Giovanni Papanti
1873Italian
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Das Faustbuch des Christlich Meynenden
Christlich Meynender, Christoph Miethen
1891German
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Das Tierleben im Sprichwort der Griechen und Römer.: Nach Quellen und Stellen in Parallele mit ..
Carl Sylvio Köhler
1881German
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Das Verhältnis von Remy Belleau's Steingedicht, Les amours et nouueaux eschanges des pierres precieuses vertus et proprietez d'icelles zu den früheren Steinbüchern und den sonstigen Quellen
Reinhold Besser
1886German
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Das Verhältniss der griechischen Vasenbilder zu den Gedichten des epischen ...
H Luckenbach
1880German
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Das Weib in der Natur- und V©œlkerkunde
Hermann Heinrich Ploss
1891German
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Das Weib in der Natur- und V©œlkerkunde : anthropologische Studien
Hermann Heinrich Ploss
1887German
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Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde
Hermann Heinrich Ploss
1887German
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Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde: Anthropologische Studien
Hermann Heinrich Ploss
1885German
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Das Wetter im Sprichwort
Otto von Reinsberg -Düringsfeld
1864German
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Das alte Griechenland im neuen
Curt Wachsmuth
1864German
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Das heidentum in der römischen kirke
Th Trede
1889German
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Das land der Inca in seiner bedeutung für die urgeschichte der sprache und schrift
Rudolf Falb
1883German
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Das wesen der antiken tragödie, in ästhetischen vorlesungen durchgeführt an den beiden Oedipus des Sophokles im allgemeinen und an der Antigone insbesondere
Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs
1827Greek
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Dboec vanden houte: Uitg. door J. Tideman
Jacob van Maerlant
1844Dutch
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De Aeschyli Oedipodea
Carl Kruse
1855Latin
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De Apollonii Rhodii et Valerii Flacci Argonauticis
Marius Nicolaus Jacobus Moltzer
1891Latin
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De Argonautarum reditu quaestiones selectae
Eduard Fitch
1896Latin
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De Atjehers
C. Snouck Hurgronje
1893Dutch
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De Dianae antiquissima apud Graecos natura
Adolf Claus
1881Latin
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De Gigantomachiae in poeseos artisque monumentis usu
Friedrich Koepp
1883Latin
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De Pĕlandoek djinaka of Het guitige dwerghert: naar een ander Maleisch handschrift voor de pers ..
Hillebrandus Cornelius Klinkert
1893Dutch