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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De Rhodiorvm primordiis ..
August Becker
1882Latin
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De Sophocle medici herois sacerdote disquisitionis delineatio
Karl Heinrich von Paucker
1850Italian
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De [gamopoiia] Menelai
H. Rumpf
1846Latin
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De apium mellisqve apud veteres significatione et symbolica et mythologica
Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow
1893Latin
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De cyclope Homerico atque Euripideo
Carolus Berry Newcomer
1899Latin
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De fati
Joseph Nicolaus Hubert Chargé
1859Italian
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De fixis quae dicuntur deorum et heroum epithetis
Eduard Krah
1852Latin
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De gigantibus fabularum graecarum disputatio
V. Pingel
1864Italian
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De mortis apud veteres figura
Julius Lessing
1866Latin
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De sacrus Troezeniorum, Hermionensium
Samuel Karl Anders Wide
1888Latin
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De seneca tragoediarvm avctore Commentatio...
Gustav Richter
1862Italian
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De tribus Homeri Odysseae codicibus antiquissimis
P. C. Molhuysen
1896Latin
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De tribus impostoribus anno MDIIC
Emil Ottokar Weller
1876Latin
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Della superstizione in medicina
Gualtiero Lorigiola
1870Italian
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Den Ældre Edda
P. A. Munch
1847Danish
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Den ældre Edda
A. Gjessing
1899Icelandic
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Der Baer in den Religionen des Alterthums
Johann Jakob Bachofen
1863German
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Der Blutaberglaube in der Menschheit, Blutmorde und Blutritus: Zugleich eine Antwort auf die ...
Hermann Leberecht Strack
1892German
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Der Mensch in der Geschichte
Adolf Bastian
1860German
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Der Mythos bei den Hebräern und seine geschichtliche Entwickelung
Ignác Goldziher
1876German
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Der Mythos von Admetos und Alkestis
Karl Dissel
1882German
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Der Olymp oder Mythologie der Griechen und Römer: Mit Einschluss der ...
August Heinrich Petiscus
1860German
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Der Teufel und die Hölle in der darstellenden Kunst von den Anfängen bis zum Zeitalter Dante's und Giotto's
Alfred Köppen
1895German
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Der armenische Volksglaube
Manuk Abeghyan
1899German