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
Lo cunto de li cunti (Il Pentamerone)
Giovanni Battista Basile
1891Italian
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Lucidarius: en folkebog fra middelalderen
Carl Joakim Brandt
1849Danish
- Read free
Ludwig Tieck und die Volksbücher: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der älteren romantischen Schule
Bernhard Steiner
1893German
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Ly myreur des histors
Jean d'Outremeuse
1864FRO
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L©♭gendes et curiosit©♭s des m©♭tiers ...
Paul Sébillot
1895French
- Read free
Maaeh bereshit
Sanchuniathon
1872Hebrew
Magia SexualisSex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism
Hugh Urban, Hugh B. Urban
2006
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Materialy i izsli︠e︡dovanii︠a︡ po starinnoĭ russkoĭ literaturi︠e︡
L. Maĭkov
1890Russian
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Mazowsze
Oskar Kolberg
1885Polish
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Medeia, Evripidova tragediia
Polikarp Vasilevich Tikhanovich
1861Russian
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Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages, publiés d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothéque nationale
Ulysse Robert, Gaston Bruno Paulin Paris
1876French
Mirage men
Mark Pilkington
2010
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Miscelánea folk-lórica
Valentí Almirall
1887Catalan
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Mit welchem Recht wird Sophokles als einer der vorzüglichsten Schuler Homers bezeichnet?
Edgar Zwirnmann
1874German
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Mitologia comparata
Angelo De Gubernatis
1887Italian
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Mitologia illustrata
Bartolomeo Pinelli
1897Italian
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Moins que rien
Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynie re
1793French
Monsters of the Sea
Richard Ellis
1991
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Mythographi graeci
Antonius Liberalis, Parthenius
1896
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Mythographi latini
C. Julius Hyginus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Lactantius Placidus, Albricus philosophus
1681French
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Mythologie de la Grèce antique
Paul Decharme
1879French
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Mythologie der alten Teutschen u. Slaven. in Verbindung mit dem Wissenswürdigsten aus dem Gebiethe der Sage und des Aberglaubens
Anton Tkány
1827German
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Mythologie du monde minéral
André Paul Émile Lefèvre
1889French
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Mythologie grecque et romaine
Jean Pierre Louis Humbert
1847French