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
L'Advocacie Nostre Dame et La Chapelerie Nostre-Dame de Baiex
Gaston Raynaud
1896French
- Read free
L'Album des légendes
André Des Gachons, Jacques Des Gachons
1894French
- Read free
L'Odyssée d'Homère
Όμηρος
1844French
- Read free
L'imagerie phénicienne et la mythologie iconologique chez les grecs
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
1880French
- Read free
L'île de France légendaire
Hervé de Rauville
1889French
- Read free
La Legende latine de s. Brendaines
Achille Jubinal
1836French
- Read free
La Medea di Lucio Anneo Seneca
Pio Rajna
1872Italian
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La Vida y milagros del glorioso S. Nicolás de Tolentino, de la orden de Sanct Augustin, doctor de la Iglesia
Ambrosio de Sena
1605NAH
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La Vie des saints pour tous les jours de l'année
Pradier abbé
1889French
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La Vierge Marguerite substituée à la Lucine antique
Félix Soleil
1885French
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La botanique historique et litteraire
comtesse de Genlis Stéphanie Félicité
1810French
- Read free
La canc̈un de Saint Alexis
Alexius, Edmund Stengel
1882
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La caricature égyptienne, historique, politique et morale
G. M. Ollivier-Beauregard
1894French
- Read free
La chaine traditionelle: contes et légendes au point de vue mythique.
Hyacinthe Husson
1874French
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La clochette, ou le diable page
Ferdinand Hérold
1817French
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La legende de Trajan
Gaston Bruno Paulin Paris
1878French
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La leggenda di Alessandro Magno
Dario Carraroli
1892Italian
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La letteratura degl'indigeni americani
Ferdinando Borsari
1888Italian
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La leyenda del yaguarete-aba
Juan B. Ambrosetti
1896Spanish
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La légende athénienne, étude de mythologie comparée
Emile Burnouf
1872French
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La mythologie
Andrew Lang
1886French
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La mythologie comparée
Julien Girard de Rialle
1878French
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La mythologie dans l'art ancien et moderne
Rene Joseph Me nard
1878French
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La mythologie dans l'art ancien et moderne
René Ménard
1880French