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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Histoire curieuse et pittoresque des sorcier, devins, magiciens, astrologues, voyants, revenants, âmes en peine, vampires, spectres, fantômes, apparitions, visions, gnomes, lutins, esprits malis [!] sorts jetés, exorcismes, etc. ... depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours
Mathias de Giraldo
1846French
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Histoire de Normandie
Théodore Licquet
1835French
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Histoire de Normandie: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a la conquête ...
Théodore Licquet, Georges-Bernard Depping
1835French
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Histoire de la Laponie
Johannes Scheffer
1678French
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Histoire des dynasties divines
Léon de Rosny
1884Chinese
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Histoire légendaire de l'Irlande
L. Tachet de Barneval
1856French
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Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis
Jules-César Savigny
1805French
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Historia D. Johannis Fausti des Zauberers
Gustav Milchsack
1892German
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Historias y leyendas
Víctor Balaguer
1899Spanish
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Historische Texte des altassyrischen Reichs + Historische Texte des neuassyrischen Reichs
Eberhard Schrader, Felix Ernst Peiser, Hugo Winckler, Ludwig Abel, Carl Bezold, Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen
1889German
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Homer's Odyssee im versmass der urschrift
Όμηρος
1852German
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Homers Ilias und Odyssee: Als Volksgesänge, die bei Entstehung der griechischen Freistaaten ...
Karl Gottfried Kelle
1826German
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Hommes et dieux
Paul Jacques Raymond Binsse comte de Saint-Victor
1867French
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Hommes et dieux: etudes d'histoire et de littérature
Paul Jacques Raymond Binsse Saint-Victor, Paul de Saint-Victor
1882French
Hoodoo Folk Magic
Rachel Patterson
2013
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Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter Crane, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
1882
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Icelandic Legends
Jón Árnason, George E. J. Powell, Eiríkr Magnússon
1864
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Idolatŕas y supersticiones de los indios
Pedro Ponce de León
1892Spanish
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Il mito di Ciparisso
Francisco Maria Avellino
1841Italian
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Il natale di Roma dell'anno MMDLXXXIX celebrato nella Villa Pia de' Giardini Vaticani dalla Pontificia Accademia Romana d'Archeologia
P. E. Visconti
1851Italian
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Il rapimento di Elena di Coluto Tebano
Colluthus of Lycopolis
1837Italian
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Iliada de Homero
Όμηρος
1874Italian
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Iliade
Όμηρος, Émile Pessonneaux
1866French
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Indogermanernas högste gud
Sven Linde
1889Swedish