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
La mythologie des plantes
Angelo De Gubernatis
1878French
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La mythologie illustrée
Bescherelle M
1851French
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La religion et la royaute
Citoyen du de partement de l'Ain
1795French
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La sorcellerie en Béarn et dans le Pays Basque
Hilarion Barthety
1879French
- Read free
Lappiske eventyr og folkesagn
Jens Andreas Friis
1871Norwegian
- Read free
Las tradiciones sevillanas
Manuel Serrano y Ortega
1895Spanish
- Read free
Lautliche Untersuchung der Miracles de St. Eloi
Emil Wirtz
1885German
- Read free
Le Codex Troano et l'écriture hieratique de l'Amérique centrale
Léon de Rosny
1878French
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Le Folk-lore de l'Ile-Maurice
Charles Baissac
1888French
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Le Panthéon égyptien
Paul Pierret
1881French
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Le Parcival de Wolfram d'Eschenbach et la légende du Saint Graal: étude sur ...
Guillaume Alfred Heinrich, Wolfram
1855French
- Read free
Le Roman de la Charette
Chrétien de Troyes
1850French
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Le cabinet des fées, ou, Collection choisie des contes des fées, et autres ..
Charles-Joseph Mayer
1785
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Le cose incerdibili di Palefato
Palaephatus
1843Italian
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Le couronnement de Louis
Ernest Langlois
1888French
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Le folk-lore de Lesbos
G. Georgeakis
1894French
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Le folk-lore des Hautes-Vosges
L. F. Sauvé
1889French
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Le monde enchanté: cosmographie et histoire naturelle fantastiques du Moyen Age
Ferdinand Denis
1843French
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Le serpent
Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
1796French
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Le tableau des Sabines
Jacques Louis David
1799French
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Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia
Jacobus de Voragine
1475Latin
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Legende sancto[rum]
Jacobus de Voragine
1478Latin
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Leggenda di Santo Ieronimo, scritta nel buon secolo della lingua e non mai fin qui stampata
Francesco Zambrini
1852Italian
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Leggende di alcuni santi e beati venerati in S. Maria degli angeli di Firenze
Casimiro Stolfi, Zanobi Tantini
1864