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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Philoktet in Troja: Über das Gemälde einer griechischen Vase der Sammlung ..
Alexander Conze
1856German
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Philomele
Louis de Lacoste
1706French
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Philostrati maioris Imagines
Philostratus the Athenian
1893Ancient Greek
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Physiologus
Gustav Heider
1851German
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Pindar's Siegesgesänge
Pindar
1860German
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Pindari Carmina
Pindar
1798Ancient Greek
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Pindarou epinikoi isthmionikais
Pindar
1892Ancient Greek
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Pitture di vasi fittili
Francesco Inghirami
1835Italian
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Pitture di vasi fittili, esibite dal cav. F. Inghirami per servire di studio alla mitologia ed all storia degli antichi popoli
Francesco Inghirami
1835Italian
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Pitture di vasi fittili, esibite dal cav. F. Inghirami per servire di studio alla mitologia ed alla storia degli antichi popoli
Francesco Inghirami
1835Italian
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Poetarum scenicorum graecorum, Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis, et Aristophanis fabulae superstites et perditarum fragmenta
Wilhelm Dindorf
1869Latin
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Poėticheskii͡a︡ vozzri͡e︡nii͡a︡ slavi͡a︡n&& na prirodu : opyt'' sravnitel'nag izuchenii͡a︡ slavi͡a︡nskikh'' predaniĭ i vi͡e︡rovaniĭ, v'' svi͡a︡zi s'' miḟicheskimi skazanii͡a︡mi drugikh'' rodstvennykh'' narodov'' A. Aḟanas'eva
A. N. Afanasʹev
1865Russian
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Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, books I, VI, XXII, XXIV
Όμηρος
1898
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Popol vuh
Brasseur de Bourbourg abbé
1861Spanish
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Populäre Aufsätze aus dem Alterthum
Karl Lehrs
1856German
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Povi︠e︡stʹ o Sudi︠e︡ Shemi︠a︡ki
Ḟedor Ilʹich Bulgakov
1879Russian
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Poëmes islandais
Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann
1838French
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Prométhée, Pandore et la Légende des siècles
G. Vlastov
1883French
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Prostonárodnie slovenské povesti
Pavol Dobšinský
1881Slovak
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Proverbes et dictons de la Basse-Bretagne
L.-F Sauvé
1878
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Proverbi veneziani
Angelo Dalmedico
1857Italian
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Proverbi, tradizioni ed anneddoti delle valli Ladine orientali, con versione italiana
Johann Alton
1881Italian
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
Terence Hines
1988
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Quaestiones Sophocleae ...
Arnold Henning
1861Latin